Individual and Couples Counselling

Whatever brings you to my office, I aim to provide the counselling support, tools, and guidance you may need to foster restoration and personal growth. My goal is to create a space where healing feels gentle, real, and deeply supportive for those carrying relational woundedness, trauma, substance misuse issues, mental health difficulty, or simply longing for a softer way forward. I can also include a Christian perspective in therapy when requested, though I do support other spiritual beliefs, as well.

 Living in a state of communication grid-lock can be extremely painful and often in couple's counselling people tell me how much they miss feeling connected with their partner in all the important ways. I am passionate about supporting couples to heal their attachment, while learning practical skills to improve and restore healthy communication.

For clients whose spirituality is central to their identity and mental health, Christian counselling can be especially impactful, as it allows them to better integrate their faith into the inner healing process. Christian counselling integrates faith and spirituality into the therapeutic process to treat the whole person within a Christian framework. It utilizes clinical methods while emphasizing spiritual resources to foster improved mental health. 

Attachment-Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (AF-EMDR) uses a modified protocol for EMDR where the counselling focuses on the attachments people form with a parental figure during childhood. Dr. Laurel Parnell created AF-EMDR after integrating the latest research on attachment theory and the use of EMDR. EMDR is a well-researched and proven method for PTSD treatment, and is beneficial for recent traumas and substance misuse as well.

The Somatic Experiencing approach to counselling aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulate in our bodies and nervous systems. From an SE lens, the focus is on how trauma shows up in the nervous system and how that dysregulation impacts everyday living. When we are stuck in patterns of fight, flight, or freeze, SE helps us release, recover, and become, more resilient. It is a body-oriented therapeutic model. *I am trained to level III.

 Art-based therapy has been widely researched and findings indicate that it can help foster a sense of creativity, emotional expression, and spiritual development, and can be a safe therapeutic approach when talk therapy feels difficult, or maybe even impossible. Art-based counselling is not just for kids and people with dementia, in fact, it’s for anyone who experiences substance misuse, PTSD, C-PTSD, depression, anxiety, and grief. It helps connect both left and right sides of the brain which helps to calm the amygdala. You don’t have to feel creative or have exerpeience with art because it’s not about making pretty pictures it’s about it’s about discovery beneath the tip of the iceberg in a gentle and safe way.