Psychotherapy is a process of change-work. Everyone that comes to my office wants to change something about their internal or external life, often both. Whether you want to have less of something (anxiety, sadness, doubt…) or you want to have more of something (confidence, peacefulness, trust…) Psychotherapy can be hugely helpful.

I whole heartedly believe in YOUR ability to change. Human beings are in a constant state of change – your body replaces its cells every few years; you shed your skin (gross fact-dust is made of bits of skin you’ve shed), and you look nothing like you did when you were a baby! So, if change is such an integral and natural part of human existence and YOU are a human (I’m guessing), then YOUR natural state is one of change as well. I will help you navigate this change-work safely and effectively. I will be your guide and ally, gently challenging you toward your very best, and always believing in YOU.

I use a holistic, integrative approach to creating change, combining tools from a vast range of healing modalities – both Eastern and Western. One of my responsibilities as a healer is to stay updated on current research and cutting-edge understandings of the human experience – Mind Body and Spirit. I incorporate many therapeutic approaches to my work including Hypnotherapy and NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming), Life-Coaching, HeartMath Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming), Mindfulness and Buddhist Psychotherapy and many more. Every client is unique, and there is no cookie cutter approach that fits everyone. That is why I feel it is important to teach YOU, the client the tools that will help you step into your best and most joyful self.

One way to look at change-work is as increasing resources and decreasing problematic patterns. Our therapeutic work will shift between these two elements – back and forth.

When we increase resources, we build on your unique inner strengths (you may or may not already be aware of them) and your natural ability to change.

When we decrease problematic patterns that get in the way of our happiness, we change the traumas, habitual patterns and internal landscape that keeps those things that you want to change in place. Traumas are created when we have a stressful and overwhelming experience that left us feeling sad/scared/ashamed and alone. This can be something big like abuse but it can also be something small like a kid not wanting to sit next to you on the school bus. When this stressful event occurs, it freezes in our Nervous System, and we begin to unconsciously organize around it (to make sure that hurt doesn’t happen again). So, in the example of the kid not wanting to sit next to you on the bus, you might develop a core belief about people being mean so that you never get close to anyone again. You might develop a phobia of buses if you experienced the event as out of your control. You might decide that the kid didn’t sit next to you because we were overweight and develop an eating disorder. There are many computations, each one is unique to the individual and the circumstance. When we process this trauma through any of the tools that I use, we also release the coping pattern that was created at the time to protect ourselves. And perhaps most importantly, we end up with more compassion for ourselves, and an internal sense of strength and peacefulness.

Releasing these traumas, and coping patterns is like removing the big boulders that get in the way of our path, so that the ship can now sail in the direction that YOU choose.

Through our work together, you will:

• Let go of old beliefs habits that no longer fit (and frankly, just get in the way)
• Navigate life’s ups and downs calmly, and with minimal reactivity
• Gain control over your reactivity through Mindfulness
• Know that there is someone in your corner
• Lead a life that is in-line with your best self
• Learn tools to interrupt negative patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving
• Release Fear, Shame, and Guilt
• Create lasting Positive Change
• Calmly and compassionately take responsibility for your participation in life experiences
• Learn evidence- based tools to create Success and Fulfillment
• Master your ‘blind spots’
• Enhance the quality of your relationships
• Become your own best resource!
• Find relief from chronic pain and suffering
• Reach a better understanding, and appreciation of who you are
• Develop a gentleness toward yourself, and others
• Have more flow, ease and joy in life
• Create and maintain a Work-Life Balance

During our sessions either in my office or online, we will first outline the type of change that YOU are wanting to create. To help you get started outlining some goals for your own counselling, begin by asking yourself the following:

When my counselling is complete:

• What is different in my life?
• What is different about how I feel?
• What is different about how I think/my internal dialogue?
• What is different about how I show up in the world/in certain relationships?
• What is different about the quality of my relationships?
• What is different about my attitude toward myself?
• What is different about my overall happiness?

It would be my honour to guide you through this powerful transformative process of healing and creating a life of meaning and joy.

The fee for Psychotherapy is $200 (plus tax) / hour