Biography
You deserve to know you, and to feel safe among others!
And I hope to co-create these conditions with you.
I am an Attachment-Informed, Mindfulness-based, E.M.D.R. therapist. I believe that we (somewhere early in our life) had adaptively processed some memories as children, but along the way, we forgot to update, inform, or treat our memory structure to adapt to a broader current truth. And so, we remain stuck.
Transformation occurs when people find a way to reparent their inner selves in a compassionate and balanced way. I believe that grief-work, communication, and exposure are core fundamentals for any therapeutic success. And I believe that your brain is capable of healing all. You can learn to hold space for uncomfortable sensations, emotions, and thoughts; to be present, without giving into our urges to distort. I also believe that you can be present with your children’s discomforts, your partner’s discomfort, and even your community’s discomforts. You can bear it all.
That’s at least what I believe, but I am excited to get to know your thoughts about what kind of therapy experience you want to have.
I offer parent-child interaction play therapy, dyadic work using A.E.D.P., Narrative, and Compassionate Focused Therapy, trauma and memory reprocessing using M-CBT, E.M.D.R., A.R.T., and I.T.A.T.M. I am also trained as a Voice of the Child Reporter. My hope and goal for you is that I might also create a space that respects your capacity to heal, grow, trust, and learn to validate yourself within the presence of little old me.
My Role
I am honored to support Oaktree’s clinicians in their efforts of providing clients with the best quality care and reflective consideration possible. Tall order right? I am employed by Oaktree as the clinical practice manager, and I am responsible for creating a culture of collaboration, reflective practice, professional growth, client empowerment and positive regard. Obviously, there is more to it, but I do believe that our team has the capacity to transform, support, and help people heal. I can’t wait to work with this team to figure out how to help you get what you need from your counselling/therapy experience. For the team, my values are more in line with what Satire said, “We get together on the basis of our similarities, we grow on the basis of our differences.” I believe in the importance of promoting the differentiated self!
