I am a Registered Social Worker in Manitoba and Ontario, with over a decade of experience providing individual and family therapy. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Conflict Resolution Studies from the University of Winnipeg (2011) and a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto (2014).
My approach is collaborative, gentle, and grounded in a strengths-based, trauma-informed systems perspective. I believe people are shaped by their relationships, environments, and life experiences. In therapy, I aim to offer a space that feels safe, respectful, and steady, where clients can move at their own pace and feel supported in being fully themselves.
I have training in Solution-Focused Therapy, Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (skills training), Exposure Response Prevention, Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy for Youth (EFT-Y). I draw from these approaches thoughtfully, adapting our work to what feels most helpful for each individual or family.
Grief work is a meaningful focus of my practice. I support people living with many forms of loss, including the death of a loved one, anticipatory grief, complicated grief, and losses connected to health, relationships, or life transitions. I view grief as a natural response to love and change. Rather than trying to fix it, we work to gently understand it, make space for it, and find ways to carry it with care.
I am also a Certified Yoga Teacher, with training completed in Spring 2017. I value the mind-body connection and the ways stress, trauma, anxiety, and grief can be held in the body. When appropriate, I incorporate grounding and body-based awareness to support regulation, compassion, and healing.
Trainings
- Exposure-Response Prevention Therapy 4 day training with the Cognitive Behavior Institute
- Emotion-Focused Therapy for Youth 2 day training with the Family Psychology Centre.
- Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Skills Training with Shared Health
- Dialectical Behavioural Training 2 Day Training with Jill Rathus
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy 2 day training with Dr. Mirisse Foroughe
- Single Session Therapy 1 day training- SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health
- Single Session Therapy 2 day training – SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health
- CBT for Anxiety Workshop – Phillip Kendall, Ryerson Univeristy
- Trauma informed therapy – Dr. Kristin McLeod
- 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training- Kula Yoga Studios
- Watch, Wait, Wonder- W3 Education
- Girls Circle Facilitator- One Circle Foundation
- Infant Mental Health Community Training- Infant Mental Health Promotion
- Mindfulness with Children and Families- The Hincks-Dellcrest Centre
- Narrative Therapy 5 day certificate training- Hincks-Dellcrest Institute
- Trauma-Focused CBT- Medical University of Southern California
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) – Living Works
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