Hello traveller!

If you've found your way here, perhaps something in your life is asking for your attention.
Perhaps you are carrying something that has become too heavy to hold alone. Perhaps you are living with the effects of trauma, grief, anxiety, chronic stress, a major life transition, or a growing sense that you have become disconnected from yourself.
Therapy can become a place to pause at the threshold.
A place to listen.
A place to make sense of your story.
A place to reconnect with your body, your relationships, your strengths, and the parts of yourself that have always been waiting to be welcomed home.
I believe healing begins in relationship.
Before anything changes, I want to understand you.
Not only the struggles that brought you here, but the whole person carrying them: your story, your relationships, your strengths, the ways you learned to survive, and the hopes that are still quietly calling to you.
I believe healing begins when we no longer have to face our stories alone.

Our work together

Before we explore where you're going, I want to understand where you've been.Not simply the struggles that brought you here, but the person carrying them.
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Your story.
Your relationships.
The ways you've learned to survive.
The strengths that have carried you this far.
The hopes that may have become difficult to hear beneath the demands of everyday life.

People often tell me they feel deeply seen in our work together. I listen slowly and with curiosity, noticing patterns and connections that can be difficult to recognize from the inside. Together, we make sense of experiences that may have once felt confusing or fragmented, creating space for greater clarity, choice, and self-compassion.

Healing doesn't begin by asking, "What's wrong with you?"
It begins with understanding what has happened, what has mattered, and what has helped you survive.

My approach

My work is grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, somatic awareness, narrative therapy, and mindfulness, while also being informed by liberation psychology, decolonial perspectives, relational approaches, and the wisdom of the natural world.

I understand emotional pain within the context of a person's whole life—not simply as something that exists within an individual. Our bodies, relationships, families, cultures, identities, histories, communities, and environments all shape the ways we experience ourselves and the world around us.

I believe many of the struggles people bring to therapy are not signs that something is wrong with them. Often, they are meaningful responses to experiences of disconnection, loss, overwhelm, unmet needs, difficult relationships, social expectations, and environments that have not always made space for who they are.

​I do not see therapy as a relationship where one person holds all the answers and the other is there to be fixed. I understand healing as a collaborative process where your lived experience, knowledge, and inner wisdom are essential parts of our work together.

Rather than asking, "How do we fix you?" we become curious about different questions:

What has shaped the ways you learned to survive?
What wisdom exists within your responses?
What parts of yourself are asking to be witnessed, understood, and reclaimed?

Therapy becomes a place to understand yourself with compassion, reconnect with your strengths, and create new possibilities for living—without needing to abandon the parts of yourself that have always carried meaning.

I believe healing is not about becoming someone new or returning to some imagined version of who you "should" be.

It is about creating the conditions where more of who you are can emerge—with greater freedom, connection, belonging, and choice.
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Every healing journey is unique.
Together, we create space for yours.

Who I work with

I support adults navigating trauma, anxiety, grief, life transitions, relationship challenges, immigration, identity, and experiences of disconnection.
Whether you are recovering from overwhelming experiences, making sense of your story, or longing to feel more at home in yourself, therapy offers a place where you don't have to do it alone.

​An invitation

Finding the right therapist is an important decision.I hope these pages help you get a sense of who I am, how I work, and whether my approach feels like the right fit for your journey.
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If it does, I would be honoured to walk alongside you.

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Here you can learn more about who I am as a human, my western training as a therapist, and my other lineages of teachers. ​

I am grateful to live and do my work on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples.