Are you struggling with anxiety and feeling stuck in the same relationship patterns? Facing painful truths about yourself or loved ones? Yearning for a better relationship with a parent or child, but unsure how to start? These common but difficult experiences can evoke a whirlwind of emotions – confusion, depression, excitement, fear – and often leave you feeling profoundly alone. My collaborative, judgment-free space offers both safety and honesty.
As your psychodynamic psychotherapist, I’ll work with you to explore your unconscious thoughts, examine your dreams, and stay deeply attuned to your lived experiences. Together we will gain profound insight and understanding. And in adult family therapy, my Attachment-Based approach helps heal old wounds and open up new possibilities.
I know this kind of deep, transformative work isn’t easy – but the payoff can be life-changing. As your therapist, I’ll help you become more present, expand your sense of possibility, and cultivate more authentic relationships. This isn’t a quick fix, but with compassion and commitment from both of us, I believe you can find more freedom and peace.
For more than a decade, I worked in the non-profit sector running youth programming, doing project management, and fundraising. Working in a variety of large and small organizations with complex interpersonal dynamics made it clear to me that the inner lives and unconscious motivations of the people I worked with were what interested me most.
Following an in-depth academic and experiential training program through the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy (CTP), I became a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). I also hold a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard University.
My own life experiences as a parent, as a queer white cis woman born in Canada to South African parents, as a spouse, and a long-term therapy patient inevitably inform my view of the world. I am an intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist striving towards an anti-racist practice. Our similarities or differences in these areas or others may simply be present or may be useful in our work.