My Career

I have had a rich and varied career beginning in acute care, followed by inpatient psychiatry across the lifespan. The latter part of my experience was working in an early intervention program where suspicions of chronic health conditions, neurodiverse diagnoses, and developmental lags were often confirmed.

I have trained in modalities such as systems theory, emotionally focused therapy, as well as cognitive behaviour therapy. I appreciate the importance of exploring one’s ethnicity, cultural norms, gender and sexual identity as well as values and beliefs. However, over the course of my career, I have come to understand the need for something other than talk therapy when it comes to trauma, attachment, grief and loss.

Through my post graduate studies I have completed extensive training in the field of attachment and trauma. I completed course work through Sick Children’s Hospital including attachment and regulation, attachment and psychopathology, as well as caregivers’ behaviours associated with insecure attachment. In recent years I concluded training with Dr Diane Poole Heller whose expertise is in Adult Attachment styles. Further, I took in depth training to become a Circle of Security parent group facilitator, the goal being to facilitate stronger attachment between primary caregivers and their children.

In conjunction to attachment training, I delved into trauma education from 2015 to 2018. I now hold a certificate as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I am an assistant in Somatic Experiencing trainings as well as offering personal sessions at the Beginning module of Somatic Experiencing. Further, I am currently in training with Kathy Kain regarding the physiology of trauma.

At present I am working in an infant early years mental health program as well as engaging in a part time private practice. I work from an integrative holistic approach where goals of counselling are mutually agreed to with the understanding these can change as clarity unfolds. My commitment to those who come to me includes working at a gentle pace, being transparent as to what may present in session, and promoting self compassion as I wholeheartedly believe everyone has good intentions.