Who am I?
My desire to start psychotherapy training in the fall of 2010 in Toronto emerged from desire to offer supportive psychotherapy care through an anti-racist and anti-oppression lens. I started by offering my services as low-cost. I developed a part-time practice while continuing my work in the non-profit sector. This combination brought wonderful learning experiences and enhanced how I conducted therapy.
In 2016, I decided to take a risk and move to the Yukon Territory where I remained for 8 years. At this time I also began a Doctor of Ministry Program and started exploring how colonization and decolonization are embedded in Canadian society and how so many inspiring professionals and communities are attempting to question and challenge settler colonial principles and reckon with practical ways to implement decolonial ways of being into their work and their personal lives. This work for me continues today as I near the completion of my dissertation.
I arrived in Ottawa in the fall of 2024. Once again, I find myself on a learning path as I rebuild my life here. Beginning again has brought many joys and challenges. I am blessed to have been given opportunities for relocations and new experiences. I recognize that many people in the world have had to relocate and start over due to external circumstances, sometimes which are quite traumatic. My hope and desire in building a supportive psychotherapy practice is to assist others in their own life transitions and to assist with breaking down financial barriers to doing so.
What is Relational Psychotherapy?
Relational Psychotherapy is an approach that focuses on the connection between self and other, situating a person’s difficulties within a larger interconnected web of relationships, i.e, personal, familial, communal and societal relationships. In this approach, relationships are understood to be the root of both personal difficulties and transformation and healing.
How I work?
As a Relational Psychotherapist, my role is to gently walk beside you and to listen deeply to your innermost struggles. Together, through the building of our own therapeutic relationship, we will slowly uncover the complexity of your relationship to self and other. We will bear witness to your struggles for the purpose of gaining understanding, self-compassion, awareness and ultimately self-growth.
Relational Psychotherapy is best suited for individuals ho are experiencing chronic emotional, mental, relational or spiritual distress and who would like to engage in deeper therapeutic work to integrate aspects of their story long forgotten or disavowed due to shame, fear, despair or guilt.
Please note that entering into a course of psychotherapy treatment may bring forth challenging emotions and thoughts.
