Finding the Help You Deserve

Encountering painful moments and periods of hardship can bring us into contact with the most fundamental parts of ourselves. As a therapist, it is an honour to work alongside individuals as they explore and make meaning of these moments. I believe that practicing compassionate curiosity (which I will model for you!) can allow us to develop a deeper, more easeful relationship with ourselves and others. I believe that depathologizing mental illness and practicing harm reduction are critical to good mental healthcare. My work is influenced by my own commitment to and participation in queer/2SLGBTQIA+ communities and is grounded in intersectionality, anti-oppression, and transformative justice politics (including anti-racist, anti-capitalist, decolonial, disability justice, sex positive, and body liberationist principles). I am comfortable with a wide variety of ways of being, values, and relationship styles, including kink and ethical non-monogamy. I take a curious, compassionate, and often playful approach that centers safety, connection, and choice. I believe you are the expert of your own experiences, hopes, and desires. I describe myself as relational, holistic and trauma informed. At times, I draw on trauma-focused techniques. Trauma can look all kinds of ways — whether you have a trauma history; you are otherwise impacted by systemic oppression; you’ve faced relational injury, rupture, or loss; or you come with other painful experiences, my hope is that we can co-create a relationship and a space in which you feel safe enough to be yourself, to be vulnerable, and to connect with what you really feel in the here-and-now.