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Therapy with me: it's about feeling truly seen
With me, you'll feel safe, supported, believed in, and deeply understood. But you'll also be challenged, pushed toward growth, and encouraged to step into your strength. I'll be right there beside you, not just as a therapist but as an active supporter. I'll celebrate your wins, sit with you in your hard moments, and even share in the crying, swearing, and frustration when life gets messy.
Yes, we'll navigate the tough, dark places, but we'll also make space for laughter, lightness, and playfulness. Because healing doesn't only happen by going through the darkness, it also happens in the light.
My background & experience
I bring both clinical training and lived understanding to my work. Through my own healing journey, I have come to know something of the pain, fear, courage, and beauty of transformation, and that experience deeply shapes the presence I bring into the therapy room. Clients often describe me as warm, playful, intuitive, and real.
I often work with high-functioning adults who may appear composed on the outside while carrying quiet inner storms. Many of my clients are navigating relationship struggles, anxiety, perfectionism, shame, depression, ADHD, self-doubt, or the persistent feeling of always being behind. These struggles are often connected to complex trauma, including relational, intergenerational, cultural, and attachment wounds.
My approach is integrative, drawing from psychodynamic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Gestalt therapy, somatic work, CBT, and nervous-system-informed approaches. I work with the mind, emotions, body, relationships, and the meaning-making, or spiritual, dimensions of healing.
At the heart of my work is the belief that therapy is not only about symptom relief. It is also about coming back into a more honest, compassionate, and alive relationship with yourself. In therapy, we slow things down. We listen to the parts of you that feel wounded, protective, overwhelmed, numb, angry, ashamed, afraid, or exiled, not to judge or fix them, but to understand what they have been carrying and what they may need in order to heal.
My previous work in community mental health, UBC Hospital's psychiatric unit, and crisis and suicide prevention has shaped my ability to stay grounded and attuned even when clients are moving through some of the darkest, most painful, or uncertain corridors of human existence.
I hold a B.Sc from the University of British Columbia, where my research focused on neuroscience and epigenetics. I later pursued graduate studies in Human Development, Learning, and Culture at UBC, completed postgraduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and received training in Internal Family Systems through the IFS Institute.
Outside of therapy, I enjoy nature, learning, good food, creative projects, thought-provoking films, the occasional sitcom binge, and time with my loved ones and two little fur babies.
Training & credentials
- B.Sc, University of British Columbia, research in neuroscience and epigenetics
- Graduate studies in Human Development, Learning, and Culture, UBC
- Postgraduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Toronto Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
- Training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) through the IFS Institute
Clinical experience
- Community mental health
- UBC Hospital psychiatric unit
- Crisis and suicide prevention
My philosophy of therapy
From the moment we're born, we begin walking a developmental path toward our highest potential. To grow along that path, we need three essential experiences: safety, meaning, and connection. When these needs go unmet, through trauma, neglect, inconsistent attachment, or internalized criticism, our development becomes disrupted.
Therapy is the space where we begin to gently untangle these patterns. We start by naming what we feel and learning how these emotions live in the body. With time and care, we trace them back to the younger, more vulnerable parts of us they were trying to protect, allowing what was once hidden to slowly come into the light and begin to heal.
Therapy is not about fixing you. It's about returning to your developmental path, reclaiming the safety, connection, and meaning that were once out of reach.
And the work is not easy. It's brave, awkward, beautiful, boring, painful, fascinating, and deeply human. But it is, in the truest sense, a journey toward freedom.
Curious whether we're a fit?
The first meeting is free, a relaxed 20 to 30 minutes for us to meet and see if we're the right fit. You don't need to have it all figured out to reach out.