Hi everyone!
🌸 I am a graduate of McGill University with a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and hold an Honours Psychology degree from Saint Mary’s University. With 14 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I have worked in various settings, including oncology, palliative care, post-surgery, emergency wards, private clinics, universities, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs and EFAPs), rehabilitation clinics, multidisciplinary healthcare centers, biofeedback - neurotherapy, and transcranial clinics.
🐝 I come from a background of counseling working in education and hospital systems. This comprehensive background allows me to appreciate the complexities of mental health services and avoid common pitfalls, ensuring I provide the best service possible.
💛 I have been contracted for the last two years by federal organizations to lead trauma clinics for executives and their teams, to assist them in group therapy sessions to navigate through unexpected critical incidents and trauma as a team, inviting these inflection points to increase group cohesion; just as I believe pivot points in individual, couple, and family therapy junctures can be powerful transitions.
🌈 I am drawn to private clinic work as it has the power to focus truly on the client, without bureaucratic complications. I believe one-to-one care is critical in our transitional times.
🦋 I have trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) with Richard Schwartz and Dr. Frank Anderson, ongoing training with Thomas Hubel for intergenerational trauma healing. I am certified in EFT and EFT-C from ICCEFT trained with Dr. Robert Allen. I hold a certification in EMDR from EMDRIA. I hold a certificate in Prolonged Exposure Therapy from the University of Pennsylvania. Sorry for the acronyms, please refer to www.canadaonlinetherapy.com for more info.
.. ᥫ᭡.I have extensive training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy assisting clinical work in investigating core issues, assisting in our work to develop conceptual understandings of clients empathetically.
👠 I have a strong background integrating core foundations with new dialects in psychotherapy. I am trained to respect core foundations while seeing the necessity to blend the latest therapeutic approaches to meet individual needs.
💄It is my joy to work with couples and my clients often come from professions such as banking, software, healthcare, engineering, and academia, including both graduates and undergraduates.
˖˙⋆✮ Therapy is my passion. With our work, we strive to instill, expand critical thinking, foster authentic emotional independence, develop neural pathways, enhance executive functioning, and inspire intrinsic motivation. Together, we aim to cultivate joy, happiness, and leadership by example with those I am lucky to work with.
🐶Thank you for your ongoing support for me and my loving patient fur family, or thank you for considering me as your therapist! It is a true gift I hope to never take for granted, and I stay humble to its responsibilities. Even as a therapist, I recognize that it is a daunting task to expose oneself to. LP
