I specialize in helping people to build the skills and consciousness necessary for increased compassion for Self and others. I offer support with a wide range of challenges. This includes past trauma, compulsive behaviours, sexual/pornography addiction, infidelity, conflict and communication challenges in family, intimate or work relationships, as well as chronic and persistent feelings of depression and anxiety, shame, grief, loss, and any other blocks to emotional freedom and a fulfilling, purposeful life. I find a deep joy in helping people to resolve conflict and reconnect to their deeper, inherently compassionate selves.
I believe that the key to being able to help others is to continue to be engaged in my own healing and transformational work. I wouldn’t want to work with a backcountry guide who had only studied the maps, I want to work with someone who has stood in and traversed the territory! This is what I strive to provide as a counsellor in the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual sense.
My personal work has included: The development of empathic skills and consciousness through my study, practice, and teaching of Compassionate Non-Violent Communication (NVC), exploration and training with Internal Family Systems therapy, and ongoing recovery from various addictions by practising the 12 steps of recovery.
My therapeutic approach includes aspects of Emotion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family System therapy, and NVC.
I also offer the service of Narrative Letter writing, which is a practice that summarizes and reflects the session’s major points including any practice exercises that we discuss in the session. Counselling can be quite emotionally and intellectually intense. This letter offers you the opportunity to reflect on the insights that our time together contained in order to deepen the learning and healing. The letter also pairs well with the tools of journaling and contemplative meditation.
I welcome the opportunity to have a free 30 minute consultation to explore what our compatibility is for therapeutic co-operation. I am currently working online.
Therapies In Practice
Major Areas of Practice
General Areas of Support
Specializations in Practice
Spirituality
Health / Wellness
Abuse
Trauma
Career / Vocation / Higher Education
Marriage / Partnership / Family
Addictions / Impulse Control Issues
What is the most valuable skill you bring to our counselling sessions?
Powerful and simple empathic connection. The way that I connect to what is alive in the people I work with increases the depth and clarity of their connection to their Self and all of their different parts. Demonstration is the key to teaching. I show people how to deeply connect with their emotions and needs. This alone is often transformative for individuals.
