“The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.”
About me
I am a Psychotherapist and Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, and I have been providing adult individuals with psychotherapy for 7 years. My private practice includes working with people struggling in profound ways to resolve issues, such as depression, anxiety, traumatic stress reactions, flashbacks, disturbing dreams, recurrent negative thoughts, physical pain, dissociation, complex childhood trauma, and single event trauma. Currently, I am also working with couples to resolve relationship challenges at The Relationship Agency in Oshawa, Ontario.
Psychotherapy has been a life-long calling for me, and after struggling with and resolving many of my own personal issues rooted my adverse childhood in psychotherapy, I returned to university in midlife, and earned a Bachelors of Social Work at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) and a masters of Social Work at the University of Windsor. Social Work is an anti-oppressive practice (addressing racism, sexism, heterosexism, ableism, sanism, etc) has had a profound effect on my practice.
Past and ongoing psychotherapy-related trainings and courses include Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, Emotionally Focus Therapy (EFT) for couples, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, grief and bereavement education, trauma-informed therapy. I belong to the Ontario Association of Social Workers and participate in on-going social work education.