I provide scientifically supported assessment and treatments to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, and have 15 years experience with a wide range of concerns and psychosocial conditions including anxiety and panic attacks/reactions, attachment patterns, stress and trauma related conditions including PTSD, nervous system dysregulation, chronic pain and illness, mood problems including depression, parenting difficulties, relationship and marital problems, problematic personality patterns, self-harm behaviours, suicidal ideation, self-worth, grief and bereavement, life transitions, and adjustment issues.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy,Gottman Method and Emotion Focused Therapy for couples and family, Polyvagal and Trauma and Attachment Focused Therapy, Pain & Stress Management,
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Prolonged Exposure Therapy,Parenting Consult, Existential spirituality.
My approach is holistic, evidence-based, client-centred, compassionate and based on creating and maintaining a calm, supportive, respectful and safe environment and drawing on a variety of therapeutic approaches to best suit each individual’s/ couple’s needs and concerns.
Specialties and Expertise
Expertise
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Child
- Chronic Illness
- Chronic Pain
- Consultation skills, grief, shame related issues
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Family Conflict
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Parenting
- Personal development, Supervision for supervisees
- Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Harming
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
- Women’s Issues