Counselling & Psychotherapy

·      Attachment-Focused / Relational Therapy

·      Somatic Experiencing / Body-centered Therapy (TOUCH-WORK optional)

·      Nervous System Rewiring

·      Embodied Dreamwork

·      Active Imagination

·      Shadow Work

·      Inner Child Re-parenting

·      Family Constellations & Ancestral Healing

·      Trauma

·      Family dynamics and childhood wounding

·      Looping thoughts

·      Uneasiness in the body and mind

·      Relationship and attachment difficulties, fear of intimacy or codependency

·      Shame and unworthiness

·      Grief and loss

·      Spirituality

·      Identity / Disconnection from self

·      Cultural displacement and confusion

·      Physiological, psychological, and emotional pain

·      Numbness and difficulty in feeling emotions

·      Overstimulation, feeling flooded by emotions and sensations, and difficulty in containing emotions

·      Addiction and self-sabotage tendencies

·      Depression

·      Anxiety

·      Chronic fearfulness

·      Control tendencies

Most clients who come to see me experience a sense of inner emotional discomfort usually stemming from challenging early life experiences. At the core of most presenting issues or traumatic experiences is not only a negative mindset but also a sense of emotional unease – these two are often experienced together. Therefore, you can expect our sessions to focus on and support change of your current problematic thought patterns as well as tend to and regulate your distressing emotions and body sensations.

Our sessions will support these changes through a process of exploring and identifying the areas of your life that feel in need of transformation such as your relationships, family dynamics, career, health, and spirituality. After identifying the area, we begin a deep process of combing through layers of thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and sensations that you experience when facing this area of your life. We look for re-occurring patterns you may be experiencing.

When we feel helpless with a certain pattern in our life or we notice it re-appearing, we may try to avoid facing it. Alternatively, we may attempt to address and understand it with tools we have learned from our life experience, books, podcasts etc but continue to feel stuck in it. In our sessions, I will support you in making a pattern fully conscious in order to transform the way you engage it. I have found that this process begins to strip the pattern of its emotional intensity and allow us to soften into greater self-compassion.

When we have access to more compassion for ourselves, we are less likely to sink into shame and avoidance and we are able to perceive different ways of engaging situations that lead to problematic patterns. We also feel more empowered and prepared to disentangle ourself if we are faced with the pattern again. We develop a sense of deeper trust and faith in our self and in relationships.

Our therapeutic relationship serves to contain this process, and I consider our connection a large part of the process, part of the medicine. Often these patterns are rooted in wounding we have acquired in relationships and so repair and healing of these patterns and wounds often requires a safe relationship. My intention is to cultivate and maintain a genuine, honest, compassionate, and sturdy connection with you as we move through and transform different parts of you. I will always do my very best to meet you in the arena and be right by your side, no matter what we are facing.

You may notice that you feel quite frustrated in your relationship because you feel challenged in expressing your needs to your partner. You often silence your needs and prioritize your partner’s needs instead. Although this has created resentment in your mind and body, you feel stuck and confused in how to voice your concerns. Since I often aim to trace a presenting problem to its root, I would ask a series of intuitive questions exploring past memories where you have silenced your needs. What purpose has the behavior of silencing your needs served – what would have happened if you tried to share them? What sensations and emotions come up in the body now as we explore these moments? How does it feel to silence your needs? This can be seen as a process of exploring the ways we have been conditioned to behave, think, and feel that are no longer serving us in the present day. What patterns are we engaged in that have been formed throughout childhood, teen years, and adulthood? A somatic approach is included where together we learn how to safely feel distressing emotions and sensations that often prevent you from choosing a different way of engaging life.

This pattern or theme of silencing one’s self can also show up in our dreams through a variety of visual imagery and dynamics with other dream characters. The unconscious often speaks through imagery that can reveal both the suppression and the longing to reclaim one’s genuine voice and truth. You may be having dreams of losing your voice or shouting but noticing no sound comes out. Your dream self could have a mouth full of gum, hair, water, or teeth falling out. You could be trapped, hidden, or underwater – drowning or experiencing breathing difficulties i.e. can be mirroring holding one’s breath in waking life to maintain connection or peace. Another common one could be dreams of betrayal – the psyche could be showing you that if you reveal your true self or express your needs, the love will leave. In our sessions, we can re-enter any of your dreams and explore and process imagery, sensations, and emotions as dreams often reveal what the unconscious wishes for you to address and transform. Dreamwork can be a beautiful and creative route to processing difficult patterns and challenges we face in our waking life.