Therapy is not one-size-fits-all.

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People come to counselling for many reasons: anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, relationship patterns, emotional reactivity, parenthood, life transitions, or the sense that something is not working anymore — even if they are not exactly sure what needs to change.

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My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that therapy should be about you: your history, your nervous system, your relationships, your patterns, your goals, and what actually feels useful.

I bring clinical training, experience, and a strong therapeutic framework to our sessions. I also bring my full humanity. I am a therapist, but I am also a person, a parent, and someone who understands that life can be messy, funny, painful, beautiful, and completely overwhelming — sometimes all in the same day. While I take counselling seriously, I try not to take myself too seriously.

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When Parenthood Brings Everything to the Surface

Parenthood has a way of exposing the parts of us that are most stretched, tender, and overloaded.

Many of my clients come to therapy because they love their children deeply, but they do not feel like themselves. They may be feeling rage, resentment, guilt, anxiety, or depletion. They may be reacting to their kids or partner in ways they regret, struggling to prioritize themselves, or feeling unsure of what they even want or need anymore.

These experiences can feel shameful, but they are often signals — not failures.

They may point to nervous system overload, unmet needs, old attachment wounds, burnout, lack of support, or protective patterns that once made sense but are now getting in the way.

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Understanding Your Patterns

A big part of counselling is helping you understand why you feel, think, and behave the way you do.

Through an attachment lens, we can explore how early relationships, life experiences, stress, trauma, and nervous system adaptations shape the way you move through the world. Patterns like people-pleasing, shutting down, overthinking, reacting intensely, avoiding conflict, or struggling to know what you need often developed for good reasons.

Counselling can help make those patterns less mysterious and less shameful. From there, we can begin to build more awareness, choice, and flexibility in how you respond.

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Working With the Mind and Body

Insight matters, but insight alone is not always enough.

Sometimes we understand a pattern perfectly and still feel unable to change it. This is often because the nervous system is involved. Your body may still be responding from an old sense of threat, even when the present moment is different.

 

In sessions, we may explore:

• How your nervous system responds to stress, conflict, closeness, parenting demands, or overwhelm

• What anger, shutdown, anxiety, or resentment may be trying to communicate

• The protective parts of you that show up in certain situations

• The beliefs and stories you carry about yourself and what you are allowed to need

• New ways to regulate, set boundaries, communicate, repair, and reconnect with yourself

 

I draw from somatic attachment psychotherapy, attachment science, nervous system-informed therapy, psychoeducation, parts work, EMDR, mindfulness, and cognitive approaches.

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Some sessions may be reflective and insight-based. Others may be more somatic, practical, emotional, relational, or focused on specific tools. We follow what is actually helpful for you.

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