Psychotherapy is talk therapy treatment, whereby individuals, partners, or groups can explore their mental health and emotional concerns in a safe, warm environment. In therapy, my approach centres around my clients, depending on each of their preferences, desires, and hopes, context (e.g., social, academic, professional settings), and various layers of their identities meaningful to their personhood (e.g., religion, gender, (dis)ability, race).​

What to expect?

Our first meeting largely involves orienting you to therapy and assessing your current circumstances to gain a full, comprehensive understanding of your experiences, concerns, and goals for therapy. From there, we can collaboratively determine what kind of therapy feels right for you, what that entails, and how it will fit into your life.

I believe in using best practices in psychotherapy and empirically-based techniques with the therapeutic intent to enact your desired positive changes in your life. Whether interventions are practicing techniques in your life outside of therapy, bibliotherapy, or homework – what’s most important is that these strategies fit your preferences, needs, goals, and individuality.

How can therapy help?

Psychotherapy works to not only help alleviate symptoms, but also identify the psychological root causes of client conditions, allowing for more effective functioning in one’s day-to-day life and enhancing their well-being and healing. Self-knowledge, resilience, and personal strengths reside in each and every one of us. Psychotherapy helps to uncover and build those self-insights, resilience, and strengths to help implement positive change for the future.

Here are some specific benefits therapy can provide:

  • A safe, contained, supportive, and unconditionally caring space where you can explore and work through difficult experiences.
  • Identification and understanding of core issues underlying your concerns, symptoms, and triggers, often rooted in past experiences and traumas that have left a lasting, hurtful impact.
  • New, eye-opening ways of dealing with distressing situations.
  • Better understanding, management, and ability to cope with stress, anxiety, and other averse emotions, helpful in various domains of your personal, academic, professional, and interpersonal life.
  • Improved interpersonal effectiveness and communication, to help you better navigate relationships, relational issues, and set healthy boundaries.
  • Enhanced self-compassion, self-esteem, confidence, and happiness in one’s life and with oneself.
  • Development of problem-solving skills for the concerns that originally led to you seek help, that allow one to overcome their difficulties and resolve these concerns as they arise in their life outside therapy