Services

Acknowledge, Explore, and Work Through your emotions.

For two decades, I have worked as a mental health professional— working with individuals, children, and families.

In the last ten years, I have been extensively involved in providing counseling and therapy services to individuals and families of individuals who are struggling with chronic diseases, mental illness, and terminal diagnoses.

In all these years, I’ve come to witness and truly appreciate how every person, with a little help, can find the strength, resilience, and courage to transcend even the most distressing emotional realities.

Individual Adult Therapy

You may be struggling with:

Depression
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Struggling with Life transitions
Feeling Overwhelmed
Feeling foggy / unable to make decisions
Emotional swings
Relationship problems

No two people are the same—this fact of life becomes most apparent when it comes to caring for your mental health. I work collaboratively with my clients to help confront their difficulties and achieve healing and growth.

Whether you are struggling to adjust after a major life transition, such as the beginning or end of a relationship, or are feeling a constant sense of anxiety, therapy can help you to find your balance, identify your goals, and move forward in a positive, constructive direction.

I use a client-centred approach to therapy to help you get to the root of your emotional and behavioral difficulties. Using a combination of CBT, systemic therapy and solution-focused therapy, I can teach you actionable mental health care strategies that would allow you to become better at being self-aware, coping with complicated emotions, optimizing your everyday mood, and developing the necessary skills to better face the future.

Child and Adolescent Therapy

Your child may be struggling with:

Behavioral problems
Excessive tantruming
Acting out
Bedwetting
Nightmares
Aggression toward others
Impulsivity
Anger management issues
Depression
Anxiety
Panic attacks
Suicidal ideation
Self-harming behaviors
Withdrawing from family and friends
Substance misuse

You may be noticing that your child or teen is acting out, or having intense and sometimes destructive emotions.

It can feel overwhelming and scary to not understand why your child is exhibiting troubling behavior, and the feeling that you don’t know how to help or what to do to can be extremely difficult.

That’s why I’m here: to help your child heal and reach their full potential.

I use cognitive behavioral therapy in my work with children and teens, as well as working with the family as a whole. I work to determine what is triggering these troubling behaviors, and how to help the family to repair and best support the child. In some circumstances will work with the family as well as collaboratively with teachers, doctors and other professionals to get a full understanding of what your child needs.

We’ll set goals for treatment and assess on a regular basis how the plan is working, and keep communication open among all parties to make sure that your child is healing and thriving.

Family Therapy

People, in part, grow up to be products of their formative environment. For many of us, our families play a foundational role in our emotional, behavioral and social development. A healthy family relationship is arguably the most important contributor to overall feelings of individuality, joy, and happiness.Family therapy brings every family member in the process—parents and children, as well as other persons living in the family unit.

Family therapy ensures that the entire family system is able to effectively support its individual members. Through family therapy, you can actively encourage and reinforce certain traits that make for healthy family relationships. Just as importantly, you can help mend any breaks and fractures in the family system.

In helping families with younger children, I find that approaching therapy using play-oriented and art-oriented strategies usually allow the entire family to participate in the process. Families who are with older children, on the other hand, best respond to more talk-oriented therapies in combination with other modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy, solutions-focused therapy, and systems theory.

EMDR

Endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of therapy specifically designed and particularly effective in treating trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other trauma related symptoms. EMDR empowers the mind to properly disengage from traumatic experiences and engage in the healing process.

EMDR is often most valuable to people whose traumatic experiences continue to negatively impact their present lives—individuals who have been victims of neglect, abuse, and violence; people who are suffering from anxiety, phobia, and depression disorders; adults with low self esteem whose parents insisted they weren’t good enough when they were younger.

I understand how much trauma can impact your daily life. Traumatic events can stay with us—painful feelings and terrifying emotions can present themselves as if they are happening in the present, still. It is not uncommon for people who have gone through traumatic experiences to find it difficult to feel safe and stable. If you find that certain elements in your environment—such as specific sights, sounds, scents, among other sensations—tend to flash you back to a terrifying experience, then EMDR is a course of treatment you might want to explore.

Chronic Illness Counseling

Chronic illnesses can be a significant obstacle to daily life.

Chronic illness counseling is helpful to people who are newly diagnosed with a chronic illness, as well as to those who have been dealing with their illness for a long time. For people with recent diagnosis, counseling helps ease through the shock, denial, and grief—and eventually into accepting the new reality prompted by their condition. For people who have been dealing with their illness for quite some time, counseling helps overcome the sense of anxiety, depression, and hopelessness that can sometimes arise.

Dealing with a chronic illness requires more than just addressing the medical challenges it poses. Your mental wellbeing is also a vital part of your overall health, and I am here to provide support and help you approach the challenges you face with resilience and hope.

End-of-Life Counseling

Conversations about mortality can be emotionally distressing. In many cases, family and friends who want to provide support are themselves unprepared to talk about and address the situation.

I became interested in end-of-life counseling in 2013 while I was engaged in medical social work—working with patients who are diagnosed with chronic kidney diseases. Since then, I have continued to provide counseling and therapy services to people who are diagnosed with chronic and terminal illnesses.

I work not only with the patients themselves but also their families—as the emotional and psychological burden of the situation tends to take its toll on both. I provide end-of-life counseling where I personally work with patients and their families in an effort to help them process the situation in a more hopeful light