“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver, The Summer Day

What is the precious life you want to lead? How do we build that life? With your values at the centre, our work will focus on questions of meaning and purpose. I believe these questions are integral to overall mental health and wellbeing. In our daily lives, we inevitably run up against challenges that hold us back from living our lives to the fullest. When surviving is hard enough, how do we also find room to thrive, to feel joy and see beauty? It is a privilege to witness the complex layers of a client’s identity and I do so without judgement. Care and compassion are the cornerstones of my practice, grounded by an anti-oppressive lens. I want to equip all my clients — youth, parents and adults to be advocates in their own lives.

As a Registered Social Worker (MSW, Wilfrid Laurier University), I have worked with diverse client populations including youth affected by sexual and gender-based violence, general child and adolescent mental health, youth justice and carceral systems. Before moving into the field of social work as my “second career,” I worked as a practicing multidisciplinary artist for more than 10 years and completed a Phd in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Toronto. I maintain an active studio practice and you can see my work at various galleries and performance festivals around the region. I often draw from arts-based methodologies, especially when working with younger crowds.

I moved from 6 years experience in the public sector to private practice in spring 2024. This new setting has allowed me to focus on working with developmental and attachment trauma, neurodiversity and complex chronic illness/ disability in youth and adults. I am trained in the modalities of EMDR, Internal Family Systems, EFFT, CPS, DBT and ACT. I don’t consider myself a “purist” in any one of these frameworks, but rather will work with you to find a shared language and a way of making sense of your experience. The goal is not necessarily for you to feel happy all the time, although that’s nice! Rather, I want to help you integrate past experiences with a view towards how they shape your present and future life so that you are able to ride out challenges with hope and resilience.