My Approach

Experiences of People I Connect With

Value self-exploration and understanding of the deeper self as a path of peace, meaning and fulfillment in life
Deeply thinking or highly sensitive, higher education or self-taught highly immersive education in any field, tendency towards hyperfixation or hyperfocus
Experiencing a transition in life, stress, anxiety or depression, unresolved past traumas, grief or loss, issues with self-esteem
Value a different setting and approach from traditional talk therapy to feel at ease connecting vulnerably
Value being supported in needing to stretch or move during face-to-face virtual video sessions
Identified or suspected neurodivergence – some who value terms and identify with diagnoses like ADHD, ASD or AuDHD, and some who prefer no labels
Sometimes using very few words for vulnerable or emotional expression or sometimes using many words through stories, analogies, media like film, books or music, or movements or sounds to express thoughts, feelings or body sensations
Introversion or preferring intimate groups or fewer, but meaningful social connections
Are child free or with adult children
Hyper-independent, hardworking, previously or currently high-functioning or achieving and struggling to slow down and connect to your authentic self with compassion
Some who value terms and identify with some degree of insecure or avoidant leaning relational patterns or attachment, and some who prefer no labels
Relationship issues related to any of the above
- Ready for a change in your current relationship with yourself or life in general
- You or the other person feeling disconnected or unfulfilled in personal relationships
- Dissatisfaction in relationship with your career or retirement
Value clarity around your thoughts, feelings, body sensations or behaviours and yearning for presence, authenticity, connection, joy, balance, security and ease in relationship with yourself, others, your career or retirement, or life in general

We blossom when we feel free to experiment, embody and experience, and be wisely witnessed in a loving and brave container, nourishing attunement with clear edges.

We align our intentions to our process, rather than a single outcome.

We relate to ourselves consciously and creatively on the inside to live life consciously and creatively on the outside, exploring and imagining multiple outcomes.

We make meaning through the emergence of wisdom and truth from shared presence.

We stretch from the inside with conscious breath.

We walk slowly and gently on the inside. We rest. We repeat over and over again.

The essence of this experience is a nourishing conversation or container of shared space between you and I that supports the nourishing conversation that is simultaneously happening between you and yourself. My practice is 100% individual psychotherapy for adults. I don't perform diagnostic assessments or prescribe medications.

My practice is Relational, Spacious, Gentle and Dynamic. We engage on a moment to moment basis through Shared, Embodied Presence and Wise Attunement in our relationship with our own individual selves, in our therapeutic relationship with each other and in our relationship with nature. We connect to the space within our whole bodies (including our minds) and beyond the body to fully perceive and experience ourselves as we really are in the present moment and meet ourselves with care exactly as we are.

Shared embodied presence and wonder involves exploring the wholeness of your lived experience including thoughts, feelings, body sensations and behaviours. This process allows you to consciously perceive and meet your actual inner experience of life, including the harms and benefits of the ways you cope, processing and integrating stuck pain or joy from any moment in life - past, present or future - and any area of life, liberating you into the freedom of the fully expansive, embodied expression of who you are. When you experience Nourishing Conscious Self-Exploration in Nature in a relaxed and balanced relationship with your whole embodied self, the body's stuckness softens as it remembers that you're a conscious being and the relationship you already have with yourself is a sustainable source of connection, well-being, wise discernment and creative decision making. It continues to soften as you continue to stretch into this remembering, evolve, flourish and integrate this remembering in your relationship with yourself, others, your career or retirement and your life in general outside of our sessions.

My path to this practice has been guided by the wisdom of my personal experiences with suffering early in life, meditation, bodymindfulness, self-compassion, connection, poetry, writing, movement including dance, rock climbing, yoga and walking, nature, rest, and multiple training programs and courses in the fields of BodyMindfulness, trauma-informed frameworks like Somatic Internal Family Systems and Integral Somatic Psychology and Nature Walking Therapy. I had to gather knowledge and intellectual experiences - listed below - before seeing that intellectual knowledge could only carry me so far. The depth and rich complexity of a shared human experience and years of my own conscious self-exploration are my greatest offerings of wisdom to you. I regularly engage in continuing professional development including my own therapy.

Through walking or sitting with me, you may experience...

more space to breathe

more balance, harmony and ease among all parts of you

being more empowered and loving and connected to your true self

being more fully embodied, whole, alive and here, present and playful in your own body and your life

a shift in the energy around whatever you may be carrying in your being - the heart, the mind, the body

the uncovering of a deeper wisdom, courage and creativity from where you will meet what arises within you and in life around you with a greater appropriateness to the situation

more lightness, clarity, confidence and space to see things as they are, including yourself, and meet what's arising within you with care

Intellectual Education and

Wisdom Centred Embodied Experiences

2024 – present Certificant Member of the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada Psychotherapy

2019 – present Annual Completion of Continuing Professional Development Requirements of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada (MDPAC)

2025 IFS Approach for Autistic Clients, Sarah Bergenfield, Internal Family Systems Counselling Association (IFSCA)

2025 IFS Approach for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lauren Bartholomew & Ellen Sharp, IFSCA

2025 Mindfulness Embodied Course, Imagine Mindfulness (6 weeks)

2025 Lifestyle Medicine and Food as Medicine Essentials Course, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

2025 Ecstatic Dance and Conscious Dance Facilitator Training

2024 Nature Walking Therapy Training, Jennifer Udler LCSW-C

2024 Integral Somatic Psychology Developmental Trauma: Later Developmental Stages Training, Raja Selvam PhD

2023 Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Family Relationships: Tools for Better Boundaries Training

2022 Mindful Self Compassion Course, Imagine Mindfulness, Your Compassionate Self

2022 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Courses, Palouse Mindfulness (8 weeks), Imagine Mindfulness (24 weeks)

2022 Medical Psychotherapy Association Canada Psychotherapy Training Program Certificant

2021 Somatic Internal Family Systems Course Series Certificant, Susan McConnell MA, CIFST, CHT

2020 Internal Family Systems Approach to Childhood Trauma Course, Internal Family Systems Counselling Association

2020 Internal Family Systems Skills and Competencies Training, Internal Family Systems Counselling Association

2019 Practical Overview of Medical Psychotherapy Course, Ontario Medical Association

2019 Certification in the College of Family Physicians (CCFP), College of Family Physicians of Canada

2019 Independent Practice Certificate, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

2019 Certification in Family Medicine, Queen’s University

2018 Educating Family Physicians in Palliative Care and End of Life Care Training Program, Queen's University

2016 Licentiate, Medical Counsel of Canada

2015 Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Toronto