Therapists in V4V

If you feel a lot of tension and dysregulation in your home, it might be helpful to get some outside help. I work with youth and families to help facilitate healthy and respectful communication. It is my belief that everyone deserves to feel heard and validated. I also work directly with children, parents, and individuals who are struggling with stress, anxiety, and depression. I offer lower fees so everyone can get the help they deserve.

Are you experiencing uncertainty, a life transition or change in life. Maybe you are navigating grief, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, or postpartum. Let's collaboratively find ways to support you best. Though I offer talk therapy, I am all about acting on discoveries. Once the problem has been named and understood, I collaborate with you to come up with an effective next step. My style is direct, supportive, compassionate. reality-focused and highly practical. I am result driven and I look for immediate application while providing warm, welcoming, inclusive and encouraging space.

I help people discover lives filled with meaning, and a way of being that is about more than just survival. I offer psychotherapy that honours healing, change, and the need for results to clients across Canada.

I have an eclectic approach to counselling. My approach is highly successful as I tailor the approach, techniques, and therapeutic environment to meet your individual needs. However, I draw primarily from Family Systems Theory, Attachment Theory and neuroscience and use EMDR, talk, play and art based interventions. I work with children, youth, families couples and individual adults. I help to support challenges with depression, anxiety, trauma, anger, loss and addictions.

Currently Accepting New Clients. Specializing in Couples, Addiction and Anxiety. I bring to my practice a welcoming and friendly personal style that puts clients at ease allowing them to communicate their needs and goals within a safe non-judgmental atmosphere. I worked in many clinical health care settings before venturing into private practice, which has brought into my work a well- breadth of clinical experience, including a wide array of therapeutic approaches, that I have successfully integrated while working with with hundreds of clients over the past 26 plus years.

Are you looking for a safe space to flourish? Perhaps you are facing challenges that are not only difficult to talk about but even acknowledge to yourself. You may be feeling vulnerable and needing to discuss intimate subjects that may be perceived as too personal, taboo, shameful, trivial, or embarrassing to share with others in your life. If you are motivated to be the best version of yourself, I believe in you and am here to walk alongside you towards your goals.

The transitional period of mid-life can be a challenging time for many women. We are forced to confront our own mortality which can leave us considering what needs to change. One of the most common struggles women in mid-life face is the sense of stagnation in their lives. Many women struggle with feeling invisible as they age and as their bodies change. The pressure to conform to societal expectations can be overwhelming, and many women feel trapped in cycles of dysfunction in different areas of their lives, including marriage, friendships, career, family, and society.

Physical pain, anxiety, and depression associated with trauma and/or overwhelming experiences can be compounded by frustration and hopelessness and telling our story does not always bring relief. After trauma, we may feel stable for many years until one day the body's management strategies begin to falter. The nervous system has reached capacity to cope. Trauma is often misunderstood by doctors and therapists, family members, friends and co-workers and they offer advice and support in ways that inhibit our healing process. Old methods of belief, behaviour, and coping may no longer offer relief.

Whether you seek skills acquisition, introspection, or a safe place to have a voice, I invite you to experience the benefits of taking time to invest in you! Our physical health and mental health are wonderfully connected. Our ability to be self and other aware greatly increases the options and knowledge we have to achieve our goals. My goal is to meet you where you are as you navigate the intersections of life before you.

Are you stuck? Discover a way forward through counselling therapy or life coaching. Clear the path and build meaningful connections with yourself and others. Have more confidence and peace of mind, a greater love for yourself and your life, and a better future.

You're looking for much more than a therapist - you're here because you desire something to change in your life or relationships. I empower people and their relationships to overcome obstacles, connect, rediscover and reclaim their best and authentic lives. I work to create a safe and confidential space for all - to freely explore, acknowledge, resist external pressures and move towards what's right for you. I don’t “diagnose,” fix “disorders,” or pathologize “patients” - I collaborate with people in practical ways that consider their experiences, their needs, their style, their goals - at their pace.

I treat trauma - childhood, shock (eg. accidents, medical) and relational (eg. betrayal, bullying) utilizing IFS and EMDR. These models are experiential, not "talk therapy". I also offer Gottman Method couples counselling. While I see all adults, I have additional training in treating those suffering and addiction, their family members and adult children of alcoholics. Often, people impacted by addiction - their own or someone else's - carry the heavy burdens of shame, anxiety, low self-esteem and other extremely painful legacies. If you are ready to dive deeply into the roots of your distress, IFS and EMDR may be a fit for you.

Within family units, the need for each member to feel heard cannot be overstated. My approach to couples counselling places emphasis on effective communication while resolving damage done to the relationship by unfair fighting, infidelity or other relationship-based challenges preventing the couple from realizing the benefits of healthy coupling.

My clients are regular people who find themselves stuck - emotionally (negative emotions), personally (self-esteem), or relationally (conflict/communication). I work with my clients to help them experience freedom in these areas. My clients get results quickly because I use a proven system guaranteed to get them unstuck. Skeptical? That's okay, because I have a money-back satisfaction guarantee. I offer that because I know that if you can understand the underlying dynamics of your emotions, then change can start during the first session. Free consultation! You have nothing to lose, and only your freedom to gain. Call today!

When we experience trauma or severe life stressors it is not uncommon to feel like our lives are unravelling. That unravelling can take many forms; emotional distress, break down of relationships with our partners and children, general dissatisfaction with life or work, feelings of overwhelming sadness, anxiety, anger and hopelessness. My passion lies in assisting clients in exploring the past, creating peace in the present and feeling hope for the future. My aim is to ensure that your therapy experience is a positive one that offers the potential to have you living life more fully.

Life is filled with ups and downs. I can help you manage stress, anxiety, depression, eating disorders / disordered eating including binge eating, emotional / overeating, and unhealthy relationships with food, body image issues, and coping with chronic Illness.

If you're experiencing relationship issues with your partner, such as second marriages, co-parenting, sexual intimacy or infidelity, there is hope, even if you think there is none. Self esteem issues can be worked on, as can issues with your children, family or co-workers! Cognitive behaviour therapy can work well for all of these issues, let me help you make the most of your life! Too busy to attend in person during regular business hours? Zoom sessions are available 7 days a week, from early morning to late evening (booking a few sessions ahead is definitely recommended).

My clients come to me because they feel emotionally overwhelmed too much of the time. Their usual and comfortable coping strategies no longer work. Some clients describe being unable to do the simplest of tasks without feeling triggered and either tuning out or completely over reacting. My clients leave therapy feeling a more generalized state of calm with a flexible range of heathy coping strategies.

Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. At some points, we can all experience difficult times and need help and support to guide us through. Experiences that have caused pain, anxiety, grief, loss, or shame can feel overpowering if left unrecognized. Working side by side with you on your journey is a privilege. My approach not only focuses on relief from distress, but also helps to develop new tools and clarity of thoughts and feelings through open exploration. A process that can ultimately open up greater inner strength, joy, self-compassion, and serenity.