“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will control your life and you will call it fate.
-CARL JUNG
My approach is grounded in relational talk therapy that honours the healing power of authentic connection and relational presence. Together, we engage both top-down processes — exploring thoughts, beliefs, and stories that shape experience — and bottom-up, body-based approaches that access the nervous system and the felt sense. This integration supports emotional regulation, deeper self-understanding, and lasting change throughout body, mind, and spirit.
Psychotherapy
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Relational talk therapy is more than conversation — it’s a healing relationship grounded in empathy, safety, and attunement. In this space, words become bridges between body and mind, emotion and understanding.
When we feel seen and understood, our nervous system begins to settle. Therapy offers the rare gift of slowing down — creating space for reflection, honesty, and transformation. Healing unfolds not through fixing, but through being fully met in our humanity
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Somatic therapy invites us to include the body in the conversation of healing. So often, we try to “think” our way through pain or insight — yet many of our deepest experiences live beneath words, held as sensations, impulses, and memories within the body.
Integrative Somatic Therapy helps bring awareness to these embodied patterns with compassion and curiosity. By gently attuning to the body’s signals — tension, breath, posture, or stillness — we begin to recognize how our nervous system has adapted to protect us from past stress and trauma. This awareness allows new experiences of safety, regulation, and vitality to emerge.
Drawing from polyvagal theory, attachment science, and mindfulness-based approaches, this work supports nervous system regulation and emotional resilience. Clients often describe feeling more grounded, connected, and alive — learning to trust their bodies not as sources of fear or pain, but as portals to presence and wisdom.
Somatic therapy complements talk therapy by deepening insight into how emotional patterns are lived and expressed physically. As the body releases old patterns of holding and bracing, we make room for a greater sense of flow, ease, and self-compassion.
“When we learn to listen to the body, we begin to understand the language of our own healing.”
Sessions are offered at $165 per 50-minute therapeutic hour.
You’re welcome to click the button below to schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation to see if working together feels like a good fit.
Spiritually Integrated therapy
Spiritually integrated psychotherapy is an invitation to bring your whole self into the therapeutic space — including questions of meaning, values, faith, doubt, and the deeper currents shaping your life.
For some, this work includes practices such as mindfulness, meditation, prayer, or contemplation. For others, it looks like sitting together with life’s uncertainties, exploring what feels sacred or meaningful, or gently turning toward the places where clarity has not yet arrived. There is no belief system required — only curiosity and a willingness to listen inwardly.
This approach honours both psychological insight and spiritual experience, recognizing that healing does not always come from answers, but from being met with presence, compassion, and openness. Together, we create space to explore the mysteries of your life, your suffering, and your longings — allowing meaning, resilience, and growth to unfold in their own time.
CouplesTherapy
“When connection feels strained, your relationship may be asking for safety—not more effort.”
Relational psychotherapy for connection, safety, and repair
Relationships are one of the most powerful places where our nervous systems meet. When patterns of conflict, distance, or disconnection repeat, it’s often not because partners don’t care—but because old protective responses are being activated in the body and nervous system.
I offer couples therapy for adults in Ontario that supports partners in understanding and transforming relational patterns through emotion-focused, trauma-informed, and somatic approaches. This work helps couples slow down reactive cycles, build safety, and reconnect with one another in more attuned and responsive ways.
When Couples Seek Therapy
Couples often come to therapy feeling stuck in patterns such as:
recurring conflict or emotional reactivity
difficulty communicating needs or boundaries
emotional distance, shutdown, or loss of intimacy
stress related to life transitions, illness, or parenting
the impact of trauma, grief, or chronic stress on the relationship
These challenges are not signs of failure—they are often expressions of nervous systems under strain, trying to protect against perceived threat or loss.