Embark on a transformative journey towards a fulfilling life with over fifteen years of expertise guiding you. As a seasoned registered psychotherapist, I specialize in empowering individuals to overcome life's obstacles and unlock their full potential. Whether you're navigating relationships, academics, self-esteem, trauma, or psychological distress, I offer personalized counseling tailored to your unique needs.
I delve beyond surface symptoms, exploring the roots of problems from diverse perspectives to craft comprehensive and effective treatment plans. Drawing on profound insights into child psychology, I've developed innovative therapeutic methods for both adults and children.
With a range of therapeutic approaches at my disposal, I'm dedicated to helping you thrive. Through evidence-based strategies, you'll gain deeper self-understanding and cultivate effective techniques for a happier, more fulfilling life. Together, we can enhance focus, memory, and overall brain function, improving your daily performance and quality of life.
Having authored academic books and published over 16 articles in scientific journals, I offer unique ADHD therapy, brain training, personal development, and art therapy services, addressing challenges that are often difficult to treat. Let's embark on this transformative journey towards lasting well-being and resilience together.
Here to help you in transforming and healing your life through ritualizing and integrating the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical dimensions of holistic wellness
Do you feel overwhelmed by your emotions, trapped in cycles of unhealthy behaviours, or the impacts of past trauma? Do your emotions lead you to engage in patterns you wish you could break? I can understand these feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, and what seems to be uncontrollable, and I'm here to make them easier. If you are looking for clarity on why you feel this way and want to regain a sense of control or stability, now might be the time to reach out to a therapist who can help. Understanding your emotional and behavioural patterns is the first step toward change, and I am here to guide you through this process.
With over 7 years specializing in anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma, I have developed an understanding of how these issues can intertwine and complicate one's life. Together, we will explore the roots of your struggles, providing you with the knowledge and strategies to not only cope but thrive. Whether it's managing emotions, overcoming addictive behaviours, or healing from emotional pain, my goal is to empower you with the awareness and resources to move forward confidently. Reach out to discuss how I can support you.
As a gestalt psychotherapist, who pairs gestalt training with somatic experiencing I can help support you in healing from your trauma.
No one in the Niagara Region utilizes the combination of these therapies and applies them to working with couples in crisis. Gottman (couples) and Post Induction Therapy training (relational/developmental trauma)
I am sorry to say but popular approaches to healing trauma like CBT will provide only temporary relief at best.
If you want to get to the root of your trauma and heal somatic experiencing (SE) is what you need and when supported with the power of relational gestalt therapy you will shift your shit!
SE focuses on regulating your nervous system.
With SE work trauma responses are completed and energy is released back into the system and with this the resolution and disappearance of physical complaints, including headaches, digestive problems, and pain syndromes can be resolved, and emotional regulation can be restored.
I will teach you how to work with your stress response - the body's innate alarm system in response to a perceived danger, also called the "Fight or Flight" response.
It is highly adaptive to danger and human survival when threats are physical, but less so when threats are psychological, or imaginary, among other somatic and relational skills.
I have been trained under Dr Abi Blakeslee part of Dr Peter A Levine's legacy group out of California for Somatic Experiencing and the late great Dr Bud Feder the author of Beyond the Hot Seat was on my dissertation committee overseeing a phenomenological study of the effectiveness of a gestalt therapy group I created to reduce stress in working informal caregivers of the elderly. I named the group process Stressed WOW (We Overloaded with Work).
Gestalt therapy is an extremely complex psychotherapy, too complex to describe in this short space.
The power of its effectiveness can only be experienced.
Most present day therapies have stolen bits and pieces of its praxis.
Get the whole again with a holistic, here and now, experiential therapy.
I am here for you... I've got your six!
Registered Psychotherapist, Psychology and Coaching Clinics
Mind By Design® is all things mental health: We're dedicated to providing accessible, comprehensive, and personalized care for our clients' mental health needs. Our cutting-edge approach to mental wellness combines the latest research and technology to provide individual, couple, family, and group therapy for all ages. We specialize in helping individuals with motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, slip and fall cases, long-term disabilities, and more. Our team of experts conducts over 15 types of psychological assessments to provide the best possible care for our clients. With over 25 locations across Ontario and services available in multiple languages, we're committed to welcoming individuals of all backgrounds and identities. Don't just take our word for it. Check out our testimonials and case studies to see how we've helped others – We're eager to help you too.
Contact our head office located in Oakville or visit our website to learn more. Whatever your goal might be, we're eager to help you achieve the results you want.
Registered Psychotherapist, RP (Registered Psychotherapist), Diploma TIRP, member CAPT
We all need someone to talk to, to help us through difficult times. Whether we have overwhelming issues in the present, or traumas from the past, we need someone to help us make sense of them and to stick with us through hard times. We need to know we matter.
Since embarking on my training in psychotherapy in 2003, I have continually encountered evidence reaffirming the crucial role of the therapeutic relationship in facilitating positive outcomes. Together, we can establish and nurture a trusting therapeutic alliance, where your feelings and thoughts are not only valued but also progressively understood with increasing accuracy and awareness. This holds true for both individuals and couples seeking therapy.
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) Masters in Counselling Psychology, RP(Q), CHT, BA (Psy)
Seeking out mental health treatment is never an easy task, the fact that you are here now is the bravest step you are taking to control your life, make the right decisions, live to your full potential, and most importantly heal from any past or present experiences. I offer free consultations and it would be a privilege to be part of your wellness journey.
A warm hello to you. Taking the first step to seek therapy can be both empowering and dauting. As a therapist, I am here to support you, co-creating an environment where your experiences are valued, your struggles understood, and your growth recognized and understood. I work with individuals, couples, families, and youth 16+ and offer a free consultation to ensure we are a good fit.
Do you want to feel less stressed, less depressed and more in charge of your own life? Or maybe you want to process grief, trauma and feel peace again? I understand, life can be really difficult and throw us some curve balls when we least expect it. I am here as a professional and ally to walk through the hard times with you and be your guiding hand amongst all of the chaos. I believe that there is no one-size-fits all approach to therapy and take an individualized approach with all of my clients. If you want a therapist who is modern and mindful, I am so glad you have found me. Together we will process the difficult times, work through life's challenges, and get you feeling like yourself again, or maybe you'll even discover a new you. Whether it is anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, trauma, relationship or family issues, you will find a safe space in me and a place to heal and flourish. Contact me today for a free consultation!
18 Years Experience
