I am a Registered Psychotherapist and accredited member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and a member of the Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT).

I am a proud graduate from the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program which has high standards of training and regulation, and all its therapists have a minimum of five years education. I am also a Certified Group Therapy Facilitator and continue to lead ongoing interpersonal groups.

I worked as the Psychotherapist and Consultant at Durham College & UOIT Health and Wellness Clinic, where I provided access and early intervention to students with the ability to talk, reach out and focus on overall mental health and well being to create a better future. I currently run my own well established private practice downtown Toronto and in Northumberland County.

I have been involved with training new therapists in Psychotherapy and Counselling, as a Teachers’ Assistant at the Ontario Psychotherapy and Counselling Program where I offered regular seminars, grade papers and weekly assignments. I have also been member of the OPC Alumni Executive Committee.

I specialize in suicidal ideation. I use a therapeutic framework for suicide-specific assessment and treatment of a client’s suicidal risk. I continue to research and present specialty lectures on the Psychodynamics of Suicide.

I have been a board member of the Indigenous Circle for Canadian Psychotherapy and Counselling Association. The Indigenous Circle draws on Indigenous ways of knowing, beliefs about health, and traditional healing, and combine these with therapeutic approaches from mainstream mental health care. This approach, also known as “two-eyed seeing”, can help Indigenous people heal from the impact of colonization, as well as mental health issues that can affect everyone.

I'm trained in psychodynamic, trauma informed practices, consistent with strength based approaches to recovery, and well-being. I work from an inclusive client-centred, culturally sensitive, anti-racist, anti-oppressive and strengths-based perspective, and am a knowledgeable, experienced and affirming practitioner of 2SLGBTQ+ identities.

I am committed to ongoing professional development, attending additional courses, adding specializations and training to continually enhance my skills as a therapist. I continue to deepen my self awareness, explore my biases, and develop myself as a person through my own work in psychotherapy.

As part of professional practice I consult regularly with senior clinicians and participate in peer supervision, focusing on individual, couples, families and group work. In all consultation situations, I present my work in ways that protect the identities of clients.

ISSUES I WORK WITH

Anxiety, Depression, Grief/Loss, 2SLGBTQ+ identities, Relationships/Family, Sexuality and Gender, Suicidal Ideation, Trauma, Existential, disorders of thought, cognition, mood, emotional regulation, perception or memory that may seriously impair the individual’s judgment, insight, behaviour, communication or social functioning…and other struggles and challenges that are unique to you.

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