What's My Approach to Therapy?
My approach is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and a deep respect for the protective patterns you’ve developed throughout your life. I work with adults navigating trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, relationship struggles, emotional overwhelm, and patterns that feel hard to break. When we’ve lived through hurt, our nervous system adapts in ways that can leave us bracing for closeness, questioning our worth, or feeling disconnected from ourselves or others. I help clients understand these patterns not as flaws, but as responses that once kept them safe.
In our work together, I draw from somatic therapy, attachment-based therapy, psychodynamic insight, internal family systems (IFS)-informed parts work, and neuroscience. This combination allows us to explore not only your thoughts, but also how your history shows up in your body, emotions, and reactions. I support you in learning how your nervous system responds to stress, conflict, and connection, and in building more capacity, softness, and regulation over time.
Clients often come to me when they’re struggling with people-pleasing, boundaries, fear of abandonment, emotional intensity, overthinking, or feeling stuck in the same painful relationship cycles. My role is to help you reconnect with yourself, deepen your capacity for closeness, and create space for the kind of relationships and inner calm you’ve been longing for. Whether we’re working through childhood trauma, heartbreak, anxiety, or nervous system dysregulation, I offer a warm, grounded presence as we explore what’s been shaping your life, and what’s ready to shift.
I offer in-person therapy in Downtown Toronto and virtual sessions with daytime and evening availability, ensuring flexibility.
My Practice & Services
I offer free 15-minute telephone consultations.
What I Love about Being a Psychotherapist
What I love most about being a psychotherapist is witnessing the moments when someone finally feels seen, understood, and no longer alone in what they've carried. I'm humbled by how brave people are when they show up with their fears, patterns, and pain, and still choose to try again?holding space for someone's story, their history, nervous system, relationships, and hopes is something I never take lightly. I love helping humans make sense of what once felt confusing, reconnect with their inner steadiness, and experience themselves with more compassion and softness. Being invited into someone's healing process is an incredible privilege, and I'm grateful for every client who trusts me with their journey.
How My Own Struggles Made Me a Better Therapist
My personal healing journey has profoundly shaped how I show up as a therapist. As a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and someone living with CPTSD and BPD symptoms, I have navigated a world that often felt overwhelming, unpredictable, and painfully isolating. I understand what it?s like to have a nervous system in a constant state of tension, to experience emotions that surge like tidal waves, and to carry a deep, pervasive sense of loneliness?even amid others. For years, I believed something was inherently wrong with me, unaware that these sensations were echoes of trauma or reactions to pain I hadn?t yet understood. Doing my own healing work transformed everything. I learned that the body holds stories, that attachment wounds distort connection, and that patterns once meant for survival can soften into avenues for growth, offering a clear path to genuine healing. This process deepened my compassion, patience, and sensitivity to the parts of people they feel compelled to hide. My lived experience allows me to truly resonate with the intensity, shame, shutdown, and longing that trauma can evoke?not just from textbooks, but from my own visceral knowledge. My struggles have not only made me a therapist but have also moulded me into someone who can sit with the most profound, challenging aspects of a person's story and still hold onto hope.
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