Services
Individual Counselling
I offer one-to-one, trauma-informed counselling for individuals seeking support online across Canada.
This work is for people who want a supportive, thoughtful space to explore their experiences and relationships — without being rushed, diagnosed, or pushed toward change before they feel ready.
Sessions are paced with care and grounded in collaboration, with attention to safety, choice, and respect for your lived experience.
Finding Support
You might find yourself here because something hasn’t felt settled for a long time — even while you’ve been functioning, coping, or holding things together on the outside.
You may not have clear language for what’s happening. You might just know that certain reactions keep showing up, or that stress, emotions, or relationships feel harder to navigate than they used to.
People I work with often describe experiences such as:
feeling on edge or easily overwhelmed
shutting down, numbing, or disconnecting
emotional reactions that feel bigger or harder to manage than expected
difficulty feeling safe or at ease in relationships
a strong inner critic or a tendency to people-please
Some people later encounter terms like complex trauma or CPTSD. Others never use that language at all. What matters here isn’t a label, but your lived experience and what you’re noticing now.
You don’t need insight, a diagnosis, or a clear story to begin counselling. If something in you recognises itself here, that’s enough to start the conversation.
What Working Together Looks Like
Most sessions involve conversation — words often lead, but the body is always present.
As we talk, there may be moments when something tightens, softens, speeds up, or goes quiet. We stay with what’s happening as it shows up, without needing to push past it or make sense of it right away.
There’s room for pauses, for breath, for noticing. Nothing needs to be forced.
In our work together, we don’t try to override or get rid of responses. We take time to notice what’s happening with curiosity rather than urgency. By bringing attention to the body, it becomes possible to work with the nervous system instead of against it.
Over time, this kind of attention can support new neural pathways to form — creating more balance, presence, and grounding. Less time caught in the head, and more connection with what’s happening in the body, as it unfolds.
A Note on Trauma & the Nervous System
The nervous system is autonomic. It responds based on how it developed — shaped by early experiences, relationships, and repeated stress over time.
These responses happen automatically, often outside of conscious awareness. Tightening, bracing, pulling away, staying alert, or disconnecting are not choices or flaws; they are the nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do — protect.
