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My approach
With over two decades of clinical experience and training in several therapeutic modalities, I bring a thoughtful, integrative approach to our work together.
My background as an Occupational Therapist means I don’t only look at your thoughts or feelings in isolation. I look at how your body, your stress levels, your relationships, and the roles you are carrying all interact with each other in your daily life. Therapy works best when we address the whole picture together, rather than only one piece of it.
We all carry different “parts” of ourselves - the part that is angry, the part that is exhausted, the part that is trying to hold it all together. And beneath all of these parts, is a wounded part that we ultimately try to protect. IFS helps us get curious about all of these parts and instead of trying to get rid of them, allows us to meet them with compassion rather than judgment. The ultimate goal is to make space for all of your parts and build a more integrated relationship with yourself.
Rather than fighting against difficult thoughts and feelings, ACT helps you build a different relationship with them - one where you can hold discomfort without being ruled by it, and take meaningful action in your life even when things feel hard.
You will get warmth, empathy, and acceptance during our sessions - a space where you don’t have to hold it all together.
You know your life best. My role is to bring clinical training, structure, and reflection to help you find your own way through, with ongoing encouragement and support from me throughout the entire therapeutic process.
A closer look at IFS
The part that is angry. The part that is exhausted. The part that is trying to hold it all together. Tap a part to see what it might be doing for you.
In IFS, we don’t try to get rid of any part. We get curious about each one, and make space for all of them.
Every part has a reason for being there. The goal is a more integrated relationship with yourself.
Food, body and midlife
I am also certified as an Eating Psychology / Mind Body Eating Coach through the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, in addition to having completed an Unburdened Eating Intensive course through the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Institute. Body image shifts and disordered eating behaviours often surface in midlife, and we can work with them as part of your therapeutic process.
Read how this became part of my work
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