I believe healing begins with understanding.

Whether you're an adult working through the effects of your own experiences, a parent feeling overwhelmed by the complexity of raising a child, or a young person struggling with anxiety, trauma, or big emotions, my goal is the same: to help you better understand yourself and move toward lasting change.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with a Master of Arts in Counselling from the University of British Columbia. For more than 17 years, I have worked alongside children, adolescents, adults, and families, with a particular focus on trauma, attachment, emotional regulation, and child development.

While my practice includes adults experiencing anxiety, perfectionism, depression, burnout, and the long-term effects of trauma, much of my work centres around children with complex needs (and often multiple diagnoses) and the parents who love them. I work with families navigating FASD, ADHD, autism, trauma, foster care, adoption, big emotional and behavioural challenges and the realities of parenting children whose needs are anything but straightforward.

My approach is grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and current research. I believe behaviour always has a story, and when we understand what is happening beneath the surface, we can respond in ways that create real and lasting change.

In addition to private practice, I work as a clinician with Complex Trauma Resources, consult with schools and care teams, and speak on topics including complex trauma, blocked care, parenting, and child development.

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I founded a positive body image non-profit organization, Free To Be Talks, after my MA thesis to help youth across North America – over 2000 students received the curriculum. In 2020 I stepped down from the board to co-found Care For Women, a charitable organization that supports new mothers in the complex and challenging stages of new motherhood. As I primarily work with children who have been impacted by trauma, I believe one of the most preventative ways to support and resource a family is when children are most vulnerable, which is when they are newborns.

I am mother to four children of my own, biological and adoptive, and am passionate about child development from in-utero through adolescence. The experiences we have throughout our life, beginning in childhood, have profound lifelong echoes as we grow older. Understanding how the brain and nervous system work provides tremendous hope and healing for positive change and growth. I have experienced it first hand in my own family life and want the same for you.