What counselling can support you with:

• Move from feeling disconnected from yourself to feeling more understanding, compassion and connection with yourself

• Build emotional awareness, and explore how to move through emotions as they arise

• Support your nervous-system to feel more regulated, and to be able to move through your days with more ease and peace

• Navigate the ongoing impacts of trauma and offer opportunities to relate with them differently

• Explore identity, including gender, sexuality, and neurodivergence

• Feeling more secure and connected in relationships with partners, friends and chosen family

• Work through self-criticism or shame

Together we can:

Make space for all parts of you

I believe we all contain multitudes - that we hold within us constellations of different parts that shape how we move through the world.

At times, we may have been asked, required, or forced to hide, silence, or reshape some of those parts — especially when they don’t fit dominant expectations around identity, relationships, or ways of being.

Other parts may have taken on protective roles to help you cope. And sometimes, those parts can feel tired or stretched, longing for something different.

In counselling, we can gently explore these different parts of you - the roles they play, how they came to be, and what they need now.

Together, we can build compassion for all parts of you, and open up new, more aligned ways of being.

Support the impacts of trauma with Trauma-Informed care

I offer trauma-informed counselling for individuals who have experienced or are navigating ongoing trauma, oppression, and harm.

This can include experiences such as:

• sexual assault

• childhood abuse

• CPTSD

• grief and loss

• racism, colonization, and systemic oppression

• queerphobia, homophobia, and transphobia

• ableism (including physical abilities and neurodivergence)

• classism

• betrayal trauma

In our work together, we can explore both the impacts of these experiences and the ways you’ve adapted and survived to hold on to yourself.

I believe we all hold deep resilience and capacity for healing. Together in counselling, we can create a space to reconnect with your strengths, inner wisdom, and sense of self.

Be Collaborative

I see my role in the counselling relationship as being alongside you in this part of your life’s journey, moving at the pace and in the directions that feel right for you.  My hope is that, together, we can create compassionate and brave spaces for you to be able to get to know yourself and your world more.

In my part of the counselling relationship, I strive to be warm, genuine, and open.  I also believe an important part of being collaborative is being authentic and transparent, and remembering that we are two humans building a counselling relationship together.

My Counselling approaches are informed by:

• Internal Family Systems

• Trauma-Informed Practice

• Anti-oppressive Theory and Practice

• Somatic Practices

• Emotion Focused Therapy

• Collaborative approaches

• Feminist theories

• Queer theories

• Anti-racist theories