warm, honest, authentic

I have always been a dancer and intuitive creative. As soon as I had my first internship with a dance/movement therapist at the Renfrew Center while in college, I knew this was the work I was meant to do. I am endlessly in awe of the way that turning towards the body in service of our healing deepens the process and brings material to the surface that we can't access through talking alone.

I am a body-based relational therapist, which means that my lens will always bring us back to 1. how life experiences impact the experience of living in the body and 2. how relationships to others mirror, inform and amplify relationship to self. I am most invested in helping people free up their own expression and deepen their relationship to and trust in their own authentic voice. Sometimes we get there through mindfulness practices, sometimes through active movement practice and sometimes through embodied parts work as informed by internal family systems. I deeply trust the pace of each person's nervous system, and very much treat the therapy space as a co-created and creative process.

I lead with curiosity and warmth. The therapy space is tender and sacred, and the people who end up working with me are ready to change in a profound way. I hold a mirror up to their authentic selves and hold spacious time for being with grief, anger and other emotions that may not have been given the space they needed to fully express themselves in the past.

I don't really utilize the language of "coping" in my work. In my own life and with my client's, I'm much more invested in learning how to live life more truthfully and authentically rather than learning how to "cope" with life.

I bring a social justice lens to my work, and am conscious of the ways that my privilege as a white cisgendered woman impacts the therapeutic relationship. I often highlight the ways that systems of power and oppression impact mental health, because none of us exist in a vacuum.