Counselling to cultivate compassion within
Committing to therapy is a compassionate and courageous act. Whether your mind is caught in loops of worry and intrusive thoughts, or your heart is carrying grief, estrangement or exhaustion, you don't have to navigate it alone.
I offer one-to-one counselling for teens (13+) and adults — online across BC and in person in Nanaimo. My special focus is anxiety, OCD and intrusive thoughts, supported by deep experience in grief, family estrangement, and burnout.
What I can help with
Anxiety, OCD & Intrusive Thoughts
For minds that worry, ruminate, or get lost in obsessive and intrusive thoughts. Evidence-based treatment with ERP, CBT and ACT — for teens and adults, including neurodivergent and highly sensitive folks.
Family Estrangement
When relationships with family are complicated, strained or severed, the grief and loneliness can feel invisible to everyone else. It's welcome here.
Grief & Loss
Grief is a natural, human response to loss — a death, a relationship, a health change, or a life transition you didn't expect. Space for your grief to be witnessed, at its own pace.
Stress & Burnout
For the helpers, caregivers, people pleasers and over-extenders. Reconnect with rest, boundaries and what truly matters.
How I work
My approach integrates mindfulness-based practices with evidence-based therapies including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and an Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed perspective.
In our work together, you will learn how to develop a kinder relationship with yourself — including greater awareness of the inner parts of you that may be carrying grief, anger, and shame. You'll build skills and tools to set boundaries, live your heart-centred values, and reconnect with your inner resilience and capacity for greater ease and well-being.
A part of our work might also include bringing to light the deeply engrained structural systems of power that operate in our culture — and recognizing the ways these oppressions have held you back from living into your true, inner nature.
Professional Credentials
Registered Social Worker #14073
IOCDF-trained in ERP for OCD
Qualified MBSR teacher (UCSD-trained)
18 years in mental health and social work
Thank you for being here
If you're curious about whether we might be a good fit, I offer a free 20-minute consultation — no pressure, just a chat.