I recognize the challenges and changes that life presents. This is why, through counselling, I seek to help others with empathy and awareness. I believe in everyone’s power to self-transform positively and I’m passionate about accompanying you on this journey. As a client, I have experienced the power of the therapeutic relationship, which is why I seek to engage in a collaborative, compassionate and authentic relationship with my clients.
I have had the opportunity to live in different parts of the world – such as Mexico, Germany and France – giving me a multicultural vision as a person and as a professional. My previous experience includes therapeutic work with children, adolescents and adults. As well as in a social reintegration organization for adolescents, women, and children. My practice is culturally sensitive, trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and based on a compassionate, evidence-based approach. I recognize that the therapeutic process must be adapted to the needs of each individual.
I invite you to form a collaborative relationship where you feel seen and validated. Together we can explore and work with the experiences and emotions that arise at different times while respecting and honouring your individuality and background.
Some of the areas I work with include:
Immigration: Navigating a new country, culture, and identity can be an overwhelming and isolating experience. The challenges of building a new life, from language barriers and cultural adjustment to the grief of leaving loved ones behind, can leave you feeling lost, disconnected, and unseen. Yet these struggles do not have to define your journey. I am here to help you find your footing, honor the complexity of your experience, and build the sense of belonging you deserve.
Anxiety: Being in a constant state of inner turmoil and experiencing feelings of dread can have a debilitating impact on your day-to-day life. These struggles can in turn cause you feel confused, helpless, fearful, and out of control. Yet despite its impacts, anxiety is highly treatable. I am here to help you restore your sense of ease, explore your strengths, and master the tools to bring anxiety to rest.
Depression: Having a hopeless or helpless outlook on life is one of the most troubling symptoms of depression. Feelings of sadness, worthlessness, and discontent can follow you around like a heavy cloud. You may also feel guilty, as though you are burdening others with your experience, or not meeting their expectations. Depression is also highly treatable, and I am here to help renew your sense of purposeful direction, energy, and connection to yourself and the world.
Abuse, assault and violence: Having our safety threatened or compromised is a tremendously disruptive experience, with implications for our sense of self, and our capacity for trust and intimacy. Often the effects are far-reaching and long-lasting, extending well into new relationships, while playing out in our heads again and again. If you've experienced violence, abuse or an assault, we can work to help you make sense of the experience, lay responsibility where it rightfully belongs, restore your capacity for ease and re-establish faith in your right for safety.
Adult ADHD, ADD and neurodiversity: If you're experiencing difficulty starting what you need to do, finishing what you need to get done, or find yourself getting sidetracked midstream, you might be finding yourself feeling particularly frustrated. Organizing and prioritizing what needs to get done is a start, but often isn't enough. Working together, we can begin creating structured, orderly ways of approaching life to make it, and its daily tasks, more enjoyable and rewarding.
Grief and loss: Death is an inevitable part of life, but none of us is inherently equipped to understand or navigate it. This is especially true when we hold regrets about past interactions with a person, when we never realized the possibilities for our connection with them, or when we are distressed by the nature of a person's death. I see grief as a skill, one that we come to learn through careful reflection and attention to our own feelings and memories. Though we may not have opportunity to change the past, we can develop a new appreciation of it, and find a way of understanding a life in a way that brings comfort.
Life transitions: At some point in our lives, we all experience transitions — big and small, planned and unplanned. The process of letting go of the familiar and openly facing the future can affect your life in a significant way, and even adjusting to positive changes can cause significant stress. Such transformation may be scary and difficult, but also carries great possibility. Together, we can help you move confidently into that possibility, or more fully articulate what is needed for that confidence.
