About

STARTING THE HEALING PROCESS IS THE MOST DIFFICULT PART OF THE JOURNEY

Reaching out and asking for help can feel scary or overwhelming.

I approach the therapeutic process with warmth, compassion, curiosity, and deep respect for your unique journey. My hope is to create a space where you feel safe to be fully yourself—without judgment—and where you can explore whatever you’re carrying with honesty and care. I believe healing happens through genuine human connection, self-awareness, vulnerability, and a willingness to meet ourselves with greater compassion. I bring openness and curiosity to our work, along with a healthy dose of humour, because I believe laughter can be a powerful part of healing, too.

I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) based in Victoria, BC, offering individual and couples counselling both in person and online.

My primary therapeutic approach is Internal Family Systems (IFS), a compassionate, non-pathologizing model that recognizes that we all have different parts of ourselves that develop in response to life experiences. Rather than viewing these parts as problems to eliminate, IFS helps us understand their roles, intentions, and protective strategies.

Therapy provides an opportunity to become curious about these inner experiences, develop greater self-compassion, and create more choice in how you respond to yourself, your relationships, and the challenges in your life.

Areas of Focus

Grief & Life Transitions
Grief and life transitions can affect many parts of our lives and often bring a complex mix of emotions and experiences. Grief isn’t limited to the loss of a person; it can also arise during significant life changes, endings, shift in identity, relationship, or circumstances that ask us to let go of what once was while finding our way into what comes next. Therapy offers a compassionate way to explore these different parts of your experience while making space for grief, change, uncertainty, and healing.

Addiction, Body Image & Relationship with Self
Therapy can be particularly helpful in understanding behaviours that have become ways of coping, including addictive patterns. Rather than approaching these behaviours with shame or judgment, therapy explores the parts that rely on them for protection, relief, or regulation. This same compassionate approach can support healing around body image, self-esteem, and difficult relationships with the body.

Relationships, Couples & Emotionally Abusive Relationships
Relationship difficulties often involve protective patterns on all sides. Therapy can help individuals and couples understand what is happening beneath conflict, increase emotional safety, and develop more compassionate and connected ways of relating.

Therapy can also support those navigating antagonistic personality types and/or emotionally abusive relationships by exploring patterns of self-doubt, people-pleasing, fear, and difficulty maintaining boundaries, while strengthening a sense of self and connection to one’s own needs and values.

Professional Development

I hold a three-year diploma in Transpersonal Psychology from Clearmind International Institute and am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor in British Columbia.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is my primary therapeutic modality. I have completed both the Foundational Training and Advanced Training with IFSCA and my practice is grounded in the IFS model.

My additional training and professional development includes trauma-informed and experiential approaches such as Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and Gestalt. My ongoing professional development is supported by regular clinical supervision and continued training, with a focus on trauma, relationships, attachment, grief, and the ways our internal systems adapt to life experiences.