How Do I practice?
I use a narrative approach to healing in our conversations together. This means that I believe in you as a unique and whole person and one who is the expert in your own life. I also use a multicultural and anti-oppressive approach in my practice that encourages collaboration and focuses on strengths and resiliency. I will sometimes use letter and poetry writing as a means to help the people that I see to both restore and to create rich and meaningful narratives that can help to express your hopes and dreams and to embody them. Though I use response and relationship based treatments, I can provide a variety of treatment modalities that blend somatic therapies, mindfulness and cognitive behavioural therapy.
I especially enjoy working with teenagers and young adults and have experience providing counselling to people of all ages. I have experience with diagnosed mental health disorders and personality disorders, trauma, abuse, anger, anxiety, spousal abuse, victims of violence, post-traumatic stress, questions around gender and identity, disordered eating, suicidal thoughts, depression, post-par tum depression, sex and sexuality, life transitions, chronic pain, family and relationship issues, grief and loss, childhood sexual abuse and sexual assault.
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