Adult and Teen Therapist for Body Image, Grief, Chronic Pain
Meet Your Therapist
As a young person, I struggled with my mental health, a lack of support in my community, and navigating significant losses of my peers. All these experiences have etched themselves in my memory. I remember feeling like there wasn’t anything or anyone that could really hold me and support me where I lived.
Coming from Northern British Columbia, I’m intimately familiar with the common experience of living somewhere semi-rural and having access to very few options. This experience drives so much of what I do now.
My Social Locations
I am a white, settler with European ancestry from Scotland, Ireland, and Ukraine and benefit from the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
I am fat and a person who has a lifelong experience of fatness.
I’m a cisgender woman, queer/bisexual.
I have lived experience of disordered eating, sexual violence, chronic pain, depression, and anxiety.
I want to build connections with people, and build the type of support network and community that didn’t exist for me when I was growing up.
I love nothing more than witnessing the folks I work with shift their trust, and their sense of self, and cultivate a sense of community that feels more aligned for them. I feel so grateful that I get to build community through my work.
Training & Experience
Master of Counselling, City University of Seattle (Graduated 2021)
Bachelor of Social work, University of Victoria, 2014
Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, UNBC, 2008
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors: Registration Number 18843
Intern Counsellor, Family Service of Vancouver, Vancouver (2019-2020)
Counselling Manager, Diversity (2021-2023)
Various positions, Broadway Youth Resource Centre (2012-2020)
Healing Beyond the Hurt: A Neurobiological Approach to Treating Chronic Pain and Illness,
Dr. Kate Truitt, 2024
Groundworks program, Center for Body Trust, 2024
Foundations of Narrative Therapy, Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy, 2023
Brainspotting 1 & 2, 2022
The competent sex therapist, Allura Centre, 2022
Eating Disorder Certified Professional, Ample & Rooted, 2022
Sanyas Indigenous Cultural Training, PHSA, 2017
Heart of Facilitation, PYE Global, 2014
A few of my favourite things
Pottery
Riding my bike
Cold Swims
Baking and sharing it with people
My dog Nugget
Meet Nugget
Let's introduce you to Nugget, our friendly office dog. Nugget is a 3-year-old terrier cross who often hangs out in the in-office space. Nugget loves meeting people and is particularly fond of people who find the office treat jar. Please note that if you want to visit Nugget, she is in on Wednesdays.