You care deeply for your clients and patients, and perhaps it is touching your own vulnerabilities and shaky parts. Maybe the weight of sitting with others' pain can feel like too much sometimes. Maybe you are visited by uncertainty that you're not doing enough. Perhaps your own life experiences arrive and take up too much space from time to time. Maybe you are wondering, "how can I fully honour all of who I am?".
Perhaps you're looking for someone to walk beside you — not ahead of you — as you come to know yourself in a different kind of way. Learn more about Emotion Focused Therapy and how we might work together →
You know so much. Others come to you precisely because of your knowledge, training, experience, and your capacity to hold what is difficult. And perhaps there is a quiet voice that wonders: shouldn't I be able to use all of this for myself?
Perhaps, for some things. Or, maybe you have found that knowing something, really knowing it, isn't always enough. You understand it in your head. But something in your heart hasn't quite caught up. There can be a particular loneliness in having all the tools and still be struggling. We can doubt ourselves and wonder "what's wrong with me?".
In an empathic, safe therapy relationship where all of you is truly welcome, including the tender parts, the scared parts, the parts that feel like they shouldn't be there, we can begin to feel a little more soothed. A little less alone. And slowly, tentatively, we find we can turn toward what hurts and figure out what this hurt needs. Something can begin to shift. Not because you finally understand something new. Because you are feeling something different.
I am a careful clinician who takes my ethical commitments seriously. Before we begin any work together, we will review our professional lives to ensure there are no dual roles. If at any point during our work together a dual role emerges, I will work with you to address it thoughtfully, keeping the privacy and confidentiality of all involved as my top priority.
I work by telehealth across Ontario and Quebec, which means you can work with someone who is not part of your immediate professional circle, an important consideration for many clinicians.
My practice is best suited to those who are coming to therapy voluntarily, and who are not currently involved in legal proceedings or workplace injury claims managed by WSIB.
I am also not currently the right fit for active-duty police or military personnel, or for those whose primary concerns centre on addiction or bipolar disorder, or whose treatment has been requested or mandated by a regulatory body.
If you are unsure whether this might be the right fit, please reach out. I am glad to talk this through together, and where I am not the right person, I will do my best to help you find someone who is.
I offer telehealth sessions for psychologists and mental health clinicians who are ready to turn toward themselves, gently, curiously, and with trusted accompaniment.
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