How I Can Help
Counselling shaped by experience, compassion and what works in real life.
No two people come to counselling for exactly the same reason. Some are looking for clarity, some need practical support, and others simply know that something needs to change.
I offer virtual counselling for adults, families and helping professionals across British Columbia. Sessions are collaborative, grounded and focused on helping you better understand what is happening, strengthen what is already working and build strategies that feel useful in everyday life.
Not sure where to start?
I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation so we can connect, talk briefly about what you are looking for, and see if working together feels like the right fit.
Individual Counselling
Sometimes life just becomes too much to carry on your own. You may be feeling anxious, low, overwhelmed, disconnected, stuck in your thoughts, or finding it hard to cope with things that have happened in your life.
Counselling can give you a space to talk openly, feel understood, and begin making sense of what is going on. Together, we can work on practical ways to manage difficult emotions, feel more grounded, and help you move toward feeling more like yourself again.
Practical Support
Practical tools and strategies to help you handle difficult moments, feel more confident in how you respond, and make everyday life feel more manageable.
Trauma-Informed
Support that considers your experiences, nervous system and individual needs, while moving at a pace that feels safe, respectful, and right for you.
Skills-Focused
Build emotional regulation, coping and relationship skills that you can use in everyday life and carry with you long after counselling ends.
Parent & Caregiver Support
Support for parents and families who feel stuck in the same patterns of stress, conflict, overwhelm or disconnection. Together, we focus on understanding what is beneath the behaviour and building practical strategies that create more calm, connection and confidence at home.
Understand the Pattern
Look beyond the behaviour to understand what may be driving stress, conflict, shutdown or disconnection.
Build Practical Skills
Develop practical strategies for emotional regulation, communication, problem solving and responding more effectively when things escalate.
Strengthen Connection
Build connection, confidence and more workable patterns between parents, caregivers, children and teens.
Direct Service & Helping Professionals
Specialized support for professionals who carry the emotional weight of helping others. With more than 25 years of experience on the frontlines, outreach and clinical work, I understand the realities of burnout, vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, difficult cases, high responsibility and the pressure to keep functioning when the work follows you home.
Sessions can focus on burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, difficult cases, boundaries, emotional regulation, and staying connected to yourself outside of the work.
Reduce Burnout
Burnout can build slowly over time. You may start feeling more tired, disconnected, cynical, overwhelmed, or begin seeing the world through a darker lens. This is a space to notice those changes, understand what is happening, and learn practical skills to manage stress, regulate your nervous system, strengthen boundaries, and reconnect with the parts of yourself that the work can sometimes push into the background.
Process the Work
Working with children and youth who have experienced trauma can expose you to things most people never see or hear. Those experiences can stay with you and sometimes change how you see the world, how you relate to others, and how you see yourself. This is a space to talk openly about what you are carrying, what has stayed with you, and how the work is affecting you.
Protect Your Well-Being
Helping work can take up a lot of emotional space, even when you care deeply about what you do. This is a space to reconnect with the parts of yourself that exist outside of the job, strengthen the relationships and routines that keep you grounded, and make sure the work does not become the only thing shaping how you feel, think, and move through your life.
Clinical Assessment
A comprehensive, non-diagnostic assessment helps make sense of the bigger picture when things feel complicated, overlapping or hard to sort out. Using a biopsychosocial approach, we look at emotional well-being, behaviour, relationships, life experiences, physical health, stress, environment, strengths and day-to-day functioning.
Non-diagnostic means I am not providing a formal diagnosis. Instead, the assessment is used to identify patterns, better understand what may be contributing to current concerns and develop practical recommendations that can help guide treatment and next steps. It can also help clarify whether a formal diagnostic assessment may be useful and provide information to support conversations with a physician, psychologist or other qualified diagnostic professional.
A Clearer Picture
A comprehensive, non-diagnostic assessment gathers biopsychosocial information to better understand current concerns, strengths and patterns. It can help inform recommendations and guide a more comprehensive treatment plan.
Written Report
A clear clinical summary outlining findings, strengths, areas of need and individualized recommendations. The report can help organize key information and support planning for next steps.
Feedback and Next Steps
A follow-up session to review the assessment, answer questions and discuss recommendations or referrals. We can also talk through practical next steps and whether further assessment or support may be helpful.
Trauma Therapy
Traumatic experiences can affect both the mind and body, shaping emotions, relationships, stress responses and our sense of safety.
Trauma can change the way you move through the world. You may feel constantly on alert, shut down, disconnected, overwhelmed, or find that your body reacts before your mind has time to catch up.
In therapy, we can make sense of those responses, understand how your nervous system has adapted to what you have lived through, and build skills to help you feel more grounded, connected, and in control.
Women, ADHD & Executive Functioning
Support for women navigating ADHD, executive functioning, emotional regulation, overwhelm and the ways hormonal changes in perimenopause and midlife can affect focus, energy and day-to-day functioning.
Burnout & Compassion Fatigue
Support for helping professionals carrying the emotional weight of caring for others. Together, we focus on burnout, compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, boundaries, regulation and finding ways to stay connected to yourself outside of the work.
Parent & Caregiver Support
Parents and caregivers will learn practical trauma-informed and attachment-based strategies to support regulation, communication and connecting while building confidence in how you respond at home.
Grief & Loss
Losing someone you love can change the way the world feels. Whether you are grieving a parent, partner, child, friend or another important person in your life, counselling can offer a space to process the loss, talk about what happened and make sense of how life has changed. There is no right way to grieve, and you do not have to move through it alone.