Reconnect with your vitality, self-worth, and brilliance.
Holistic Trauma Counselling in Vancouver, BC
How I Can Help
Areas of Expertise:
Trauma (Childhood, Sexual Abuse, Religious, PTSD, Complex PTSD)
Anxiety & Depression
Perfectionism & Self-Criticism
Guilt, Shame & Self-Worth
Spirituality & Existential Concerns
Relationship Boundaries & Honest Conversations
Workplace Stress & Burnout
Purpose, Career & Vocation
The Heart of the Work:
Expanding your capacity to be present to all aspects of yourself (even the parts that are painful to witness) and resolve inner conflicts
Reclaiming your in-body experience, including emotion & nervous system regulation
Re-learning how to hear, trust, and act on your inner guidance, including how to discern between fear and intuition
Paving the way for new and preferred patterns to emerge across all levels (emotions, thoughts, behaviours, relationships)
My mission is to help you align with your whole and authentic self.
Picture a mountain range with peaks, valleys, and everything in between. Each part belongs to the mountain and is a different aspect of the same whole. Now consider how the perspective at the top would be different from the perspective at the base, and how both perspectives are valid and potentially useful. Standing on the peak, you get the broader view: you can see the big picture, see the whole for more of what it is, and more easily connect to the Greater Web of the mountain range. From the valley, you get to feel its depths, experience the mountain as a journey, and encounter new learnings through the climb.
My job is to help you navigate the shadows of the valleys, whether this represents a trauma wound, difficulties trusting yourself, challenges with boundaries, or feeling stuck in life.
I support with 1) tools that help make it easier to move forward (e.g., emotion regulation), and 2) processes that strengthens your connection to the view from the top (e.g., increasing your connection to your inner guidance and redefining the meaning of challenging events).
If you’d like to explore how we could work together, you’re welcome to request a free 15-minute consult here.
Ultimately, the journey through the shadows can help bring you into closer alignment with the fullness of who you are, and the expression of your brilliance.
The path of healing takes us with and through the difficult emotions… not against them.
In the shorter term, this can look like helping you navigate through life’s storms by building tools and strategies that work better for you. Over time, we can work together so that you no longer need to “cope” through emotional pain. Instead, you can learn how to work with all feelings directly so they stop feeling so intimidating.
Whether it’s rage, shame, grief, guilt or freeze, you can come to trust that the Whole you is capable of integrating the message behind the emotion and releasing the extra activation. We do this by engaging your inner wisdom, equipping you with new resources, anchoring in your strengths, and expanding your sense of agency.
Imagine how much energy we reclaim when we are no longer pushing against, invalidating, or avoiding parts of ourselves. Imagine what becomes possible when the emotions you once felt at war with become allies in creating the future you most want.
Commitments That Guide My Work:
See You Beyond the Storm
Even though it might not always feel this way, you are not your wounds. You are not your thoughts, you are not your pain, and you are not what happened to you. The difficult emotions are like dense storms that are hard to see past… but you are the whole sky. My job is to help you discover more of who you really are, and my commitment is to maintain sight of the powerful potential that exists within you, and within all of us.
Honour Your Agency
We each belong in the driver’s seat of our lives… not the trauma, not fear, not the limiting beliefs, not the self-doubt, but the Whole Self. I am dedicated to helping you fully claim this role by honouring your inherent agency and your power to choose what’s right for you. I do this by regarding you as the leader of your life, and by offering invitations to expand the range of choices that you feel are available to you.
Live the Work
In the counselling profession, integrity means responsible care, honest communication, and respect for all people. To me, integrity also means that I continue to walk the path of healing. I don’t counsel one way and live life another way. I am not able to show up to life exactly the way I intend 100% of the time, but I am always healing, growing and expanding. This is what I am genuinely passionate about.
Value All Ways of Knowing
I work holistically, valuing all your ways of knowing and honouring diverse ways of accessing wisdom. This can include the domains of the: logical and rational, emotional, somatic and body-based, intuitive, energetic, cultural, and ancestral. I can work with you to expand and integrate different signals of information, so you can recognize your personal “True North” and deepen your sense of self-trust.
Online Counselling Services
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Talk-Based Therapy
Support for individuals using talk therapy, mindfulness and customized somatic (body-based) practices. Each session is a co-creation based on your goals, boundaries, and your sense of emotional and physiological safety. Nothing is forced. I offer gentle questions, reflections, and perspectives to help you expand self-awareness, self-acceptance, and capacity to show up for yourself and others in the way you truly want.
Modalities: Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Jungian Depth Psychology, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Somatic Techniques
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EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based approach that can help with PTSD, complex trauma, anxiety and depression. It utilizes bilateral stimulation (e.g., side-to-side tapping and eye movements) to reprocess past experiences in the present moment.
In other words, painful and highly activating memories become reprocessed in the mind and body, such that the memory is no longer associated with an intense emotional charge. By the end of the process, overwhelming memories feel more neutral and negative beliefs feel less believable.
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Relationship Counselling
Talk therapy for couples, adult family members, and friends to strengthen communication, heal misunderstandings, and update underlying relationship patterns. Together, you’ll find new ways to meet each other's needs with greater clarity and care. The intention of each session is to help you move towards more openness, agency, and connection, both within yourself and with the person/people you care about.
Modalities: Gottman, Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)