Finding the Help You Deserve

Counselling offers an opportunity to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, reconnect with your own needs and values, and find ways of moving through life that feel more grounded, aligned, intentional, and emotionally sustainable. In our work together, we explore patterns in your experience - thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, or experiences of the outside world- while making space for different parts of you and your experience to be seen, valued, understood, and integrated. A key focus is supporting greater self-awareness and self-compassion, which encourages change to emerge naturally and in alignment with your values. I may also share practical skills to build greater awareness of the body’s signals, helping you connect more deeply with yourself to support greater nervous-system and emotional regulation. My counselling approach is compassionate, relational, and client-centred. I believe that people already possess an innate wholeness, and have the capacity for healing, growth, and self-understanding, even when this feels difficult to access due to pain, trauma, stress, or long-standing patterns or circumstances. My approach to counselling is built on over 15 years of committed mindfulness practice, as well as a background in teaching meditation to adults and kids. Areas of support include: -managing stress, anxiety, overwhelm and emotional sensitivity -navigating life transitions and change, including perimenopause and menopause -making room for your own needs, values and desires -building a stronger sense of self, self-compassion and self-trust -nervous system resourcing and regulation -learning tools for mindfulness -understanding relationship patterns and changing roles -boundaries, inner authority, exploring your yes’s and no’s -comparison, self-criticism, perfectionism, control -finding purpose and meaning, exploring values - grief, loss and bereavement