Counselling

Counselling approach and areas of practice

I offer anti-oppression counselling to adults and youth 16+, and relationship counselling to adults. I center my practice around the needs of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people.

My therapy style is warm, compassionate, collaborative and active. You will have space to share your story, and guidance for reflection, deeper inquiry and change creation. I integrate a variety of approaches into my practice, including anti-oppression, feminist, person-centered, Indigenous focusing oriented, mindfulness, expressive, and somatic therapies. I will work with you to customize approaches and tools that fit your needs, while respecting your goals, agency and expertise in your own life. Throughout all of this, I aim to create and hold a safer space where you can be present as your authentic self.

I view counselling as a holistic process that encompasses emotional, mental, physical and spiritual aspects of our lives. I believe that your needs are best met when your experience is understood in the context of your environment, upbringing, society and culture. My work is grounded in anti-oppression, anti-capitalist and abolitionist values, and I am committed to the ongoing decolonizing of my practice.

Areas of interest include:

Queer and trans positive counselling, with an intersectional lens

Gender affirming care, including hormone and surgical readiness assessments and care planning

Resilience, protection, recovery and healing from trauma

Living fully, authentically and sustainably with chronic pain, disability and illness.

Understanding, unmasking, supporting and celebrating your neurodivergent self

Expressive arts based work – you don’t need to be an artist to benefit from expressive work.

Grief and loss, including family estrangements and culture loss; traumatic deaths including suicide and accident

Sexuality and sexual wellness, including fetish/kink, polyamory, and ethical nonomogamy.