The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
Goethe
Clinical Counselling & Psychotherapy
I have over 15 years experience working with individuals and couples to heal from depression, nervous system dysregulation and anxiety, grief and loneliness, emotional pain, relationship difficulties and to recover from post-traumatic stress.
I aim to provide a safe and compassionate space to awaken your inner wise mind, change negative patterns and increase your resilience to bring about the changes you are wanting to see.
Recover from depression
I can help you recover from moderate low mood, major depression or chronic melancholia. Perhaps you are having a dark night of the soul? Learn to explore the limiting thinking, behaviours and adaptive strategies that create and perpetually leave you emotionally low, foggy and numb.
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Find comfort with yourself again by increasing self-compassion and taming that inner critic. Find relief from emotional pain.
Experience greater emotional regulation and get back 'on your own side'. Learn to experience joy and start enjoying your life again.
Anxiety and Chronic Stress
I can help with generalized anxiety, panic attacks or situational anxious episodes. Find relief from nervous system dysregulation and triggers to get back to feeling yourself again.Sensorimotor processing and working with the wisdom of your body to feel more stable, grounded and a renewed sense of hope and vitality.
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Get freedom from an overactive, self-critical, runaway mind. End the worry trance. Balance your nervous system and stop obsessive thinking to be able to manage life's challenges with comfort and confidence.
Improve sleep and generally feel more peace and inner stability.
Recover from trauma. Single incident trauma and CPTSD.
End the generalized anxiety, panic attacks or situational anxious episodes and other post-trauma stress symptoms. Find relief from nervous system dysregulation and triggers to get back to feeling yourself again.Sensorimotor processing and working with the wisdom of your body to feel more stable, grounded and a renewed sense of hope and vitality.
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Get freedom from an overactive, self-critical, runaway mind. End the worry trance. Balance your nervous system and stop obsessive thinking to be able to manage life's challenges with comfort and confidence.
Improve sleep and generally feel more peace and inner stability.
Life and stress management
Get help and support through the ups and downs of life and learn to stay grounded and kind to yourself no matter what life throws at you.
Self-exploration and goal setting to feel like you are thriving and fully engaged in your life.
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Support with life set-backs and space for emotional processing. Compassionate support for grief and loss including pet-loss.
Learn to build your bank of resources that help you navigate life struggles, aging and growth stages and bring a greater feeling of wellbeing when you need it.
Self-Exploration - Wisdom mind, creativity and embodied spirituality
Explore your own unique embodied spirituality and find meaning, purpose and inner guidance. Learn the centering and contemplative practice of mindfulness to discover your own inner compass.
Connect with your creativity using creative writing, therapeutic songwriting and music-integrated psychotherapy. Connect and recover your authentic voice and most essential, empowered self using Therapeutic Voicework.
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Learn self-hypnosis skills to ground, feel more balance and experience your capacity for profound insight.
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Couples Counselling and Individual Relationship Coaching.
Heal your relationship pain and recover that connection that once felt lost for good. Learn communication tools that help you resolve conflicts and connect again in a more heart-opening way.
Stop repeating the negative patterns you have formed together and enjoy more peace and real connection.
Learn the key researched behaviours of happy relationships and enjoy a lasting and fulfilling relationship.
This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Videoconferencing Sessions
All my sessions are conveniently online using Doxy.me a secure, end to end encrypted Videoconferencing platform. What that means is it is confidential way to do video sessions. It is designed for convenient and effective face to face conversations and is very easy to use. With the HD picture you will feel like we are in the same room.​
Your privacy is important
Confidentiality is a cornerstone of the counselling relationship. Being able to share your stories and personal experience in a safe way is ensured with a Doxy online session. Here are some privacy details:
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Doxy does not store your personal information. No log in details are required. You simply click a link which takes you directly to my virtual waiting room.
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The servers are PHIPA and PIPEDA compliant (regulation for the way Canadian patient health information is stored). But no information is stored which makes it particularly secure.
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End-to-end encryption ensures our call is shared between provider and patient only.