The Dragonfly
The dragonfly represents the purity of being. The spirit animal urges people to take chances and realize the potential within them. It helps them understand they can fully realize their potential.
I offer a safe place where you will unearth a
deeper understanding of self, strengthen your
connection with others, and increase your
capacity for joy.
Individual Counselling
We are influenced by our caregivers, our culture and ethnicity from infancy to adulthood. Our values, beliefs and attitudes are internalized in childhood and our reality is subjective. Our projected path and our view of how life is meant to be can feel safe and predictable.
Attachment and Attunement Counselling
Throughout the calendar year I offer Circle of Security Parenting Groups. These groups are experiential as caregivers reflect on their own childhood experience while focusing on how to enhance secure attachment with their children.
Somatic Experiencing Practice
Somatic Experiencing Practice is a treatment modality specific to the healing and resolution of trauma. This therapeutic modality works with symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma.
About Me
NOTE: I am accepting new clients at this time
Dragonfly Counselling
I hold a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology as well am a registered Social Worker; in good standing with both regulatory bodies. I have spent almost three decades working in public health care committed to providing optimal care to those I sit with. I am a passionate clinician whose primary focus over the past fifteen years has been to help clients resolve and heal from their trauma experiences. During my Master’s program I was introduced to Somatic Experiencing Practice, a treatment modality specific to the renegotiation of trauma. Through learning, training, engaging in as well as offering I have found the benefits of Somatic Experiencing, both personally and professionally, to be transformative and life altering.
Somatic Experiencing is a psychobiological approach to the healing of trauma, including post traumatic stress disorder, and other stress related conditions. It is grounded in the life’s work of Dr Peter Levine spanning over four decades.
“Trauma originates as a response in the nervous system and does not originate in an event.” Peter Levine
We are hard wired for survival, our neurophysiology constantly on alert and ready for action if we sense we are in danger. Our self-protective responses: fight, flight, or freeze, are autonomic responses designed to keep us safe.
Imagine driving on a highway when suddenly someone cuts in front of you. Your nervous system moves into action. Your heart rate and blood pressure increases, blood shifts from your digestive system to your muscles to allow for quick movement, your pupils dilate all preparing the body for action. If the outcome is you are safe all of your bodily functions will return to a relaxed state. However, if you have experienced harm your nervous system may experience overwhelm, or trauma, resulting in becoming stuck most often in the freeze response.
The goal of Somatic Experiencing practice is to work with bound energy and over time allow for the persons nervous system to return to a regulated state. This work restores health, brings mindfulness to the wisdom of the body, and increases capacity for connection with others.
I have much gratitude to be able to live, work and play on the unceded territory of the WSANEC” First Nations and the Lekwungen speaking peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations.
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