Adult and Teen Therapist for Anxiety, Brainspotting, Gender, Grief, Eating Disorders, and more!
Welcome, feel free to get to know me...
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.
🌙 I am a white, settler with European ancestry from Scotland, Wales, 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.
My social locations
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.
I have spent my career providing dignified support to diverse communities and I am committed to showing up with that same standard for all of my clients.
the official things
Selected training and continuing education
⚡ Master of Counselling, City University of Seattle, May 2021
⚡ Bachelor of Social Work, UVIC, May 2014
⚡ Groundworks Program, Centre for Body Trust, In progress
⚡ Foundations of Narrative Therapy, Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy, May 2023
⚡ The Competent Sex Therapist, Allura Centre, July 2022
⚡ Eating Disorders Certified Provider, Ample and Rooted, August 2022
⚡ Brainspotting Phase 1 & 2, 2022
⚡ Trauma Informed Care with Youth, Centre for Adolescent Studies, 2018
⚡ San’yas Indigenous Cultural Training, PHSA 2017
Registration and Professional Associations
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors: Registration Number 18843
Member of the Association of Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH)
What I’m reading/listening to lately
📖 Maps of Narrative Practice - Michael White
📖 Hung up - Cat Pausé
🎧 Leaning into Insecurity and Ugliness As an Essential Politic - Da’Shaun Harrison/Wear Your Voice
