Therapist Intern

M.Ed. Candidate

We often overestimate what we need to change and underestimate our ability to change. This keeps us stuck and unable to see the possibilities around us.

Therapy gives you a space to slow down, to examine your strengths and the sources of your dissatisfaction so that you can gain insight and experiment with new ways of thinking and acting. Based on my background as a healthcare provider, coach and mindfulness meditation teacher, my approach to therapy is warm, holistic, and evidence-informed. Together, we can find new perspectives, explore your choices and implement a plan to take action.

My work as a mindfulness-based therapist is informed by my personal practice in the Tibetan, Zen, and Theravadan Buddhist traditions. I also bring significant experience as a former Chiropractor and Certified Coach. You will find my approach to therapy is practical, insightful and active – integrating secular mindfulness, compassion, focusing, inquiry, reflection, and behavioural experimentation. I am familiar with diverse spiritual traditions and happy to support personal and spiritual development as a fellow traveller on the path.

I believe the key to successful therapy is a strong collaborative partnership between therapist and client. We will find what works best for your well-being as we explore and experiment with new possibilities. Through this individually tailored experimentation, we’ll work to discover new paths of action, greater freedom and more fulfillment.

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Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)

Therapy is a space to bring your confusion, worry, anger and sadness, without having to hide it or push through on your own. If you’re used to numbing out or criticizing yourself to get through the hard times – we’ll do it differently.

I believe there is wisdom and courage hidden in the behaviours we develop to survive the difficult things we live through, even when these patterns leave us trapped in destructive habits, despair or bad relationships. When we find the good intentions behind our old strategies, we find the key to building the life we want.

I help people through trauma, grief, gender and sexuality struggles, spiritual questions, religious wounding, medical crises and all sorts of life transitions. We will look for what brings you meaning while growing skills to develop honesty, authenticity and well-being.

I use talk therapies, mindfulness approaches (to be present, on purpose, without judgment) and somatic approaches (working with the whole nervous system, not just the brain) to find what will help you best in your real life.

I bring to this work a decade as a Buddhist monastic and two decades of meditation practice, with a background in the arts and a passion for neuroscience. Outside of psychotherapy, I regularly teach mindfulness and meditation to religious and non-religious people from all walks of life.

Past clients have said I have a talent for hearing what’s being said behind the words, for encouraging people to find their own goodness and for sharing big concepts in practical ways that can be applied in real life.

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Registered Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor

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In practice since 2008, I have worked with diverse communities to support healing, connection, and growth. I have a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and further post-graduate training in the treatment of trauma and anti-oppressive practice. As an educator, I have taught university psychology courses, lead community workshops and clinical trainings in mindfulness-based approaches to healing, and mentored dozens of therapists and students as a clinical supervisor.

My work as a mindfulness-based psychotherapist is grounded in my own personal practice. A practitioner of meditation since 1999 and a mindfulness educator since 2004, I am a graduate of a Buddhist seminary and meditation instructor training program.

I believe that having diverse interests and being active in my community strengthens my work as a psychotherapist. A commitment to ongoing learning means that I continue to explore an interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersections of psychology, philosophy, art, science and social justice.

CRPO registration #003448.

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Associate Supervisor

Registered Psychotherapist

M.Ed. OISE, University of Toronto

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Registered Psychotherapist

M.A. Counselling Psychology

I view therapy as a creative process.

A creative process requires connection, trust, and a sense of humour. I bring over a decade of experience in the arts to my work as a psychotherapist. I have spent my life working in supportive spaces where we try things, fail productively, and sometimes have collaborative breakthroughs. Together we will investigate the nuances of your story and explore alternate ways of being with your thoughts and feelings, mind and body.

I help people address experiences like depression, anxiety and self esteem through curiosity, compassion, and connecting to the wisdom of the body. I’m queer, and I value supporting people seeking to live authentically. I have a special interest in relationships – exploring how we’ve learned to connect with others and how that is echoed in our connection with ourselves.

My responsibility is to attend to our relationship with curiosity and acceptance. I will encourage you to turn to yourself with the same care, so that your relationship with yourself begins to feel like home.

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Associate Supervisor

Registered Psychotherapist

M.A. Counselling Psychology

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Therapist Intern

M.Ed. Candidate

Therapy with me is a process of increasing awareness, helping you to see things in your life as they are. This can be scary, and I will help you to hold any painful parts with safety and compassion. With more awareness and compassion, you can take more effective action in your life. This all happens within a caring relationship where I will bring my full self to support you.

My full self includes my own experiences of surviving violence and self-alienation. I have spent time living in the depths of my life. Through therapy, spirituality, and community I have found my way to spend time at the surface of it as well, where I can be with another, be with you. I’m curious, what would it mean for you to live at the surface of your life?

I bring to therapy varied experiences, including months of monastic Buddhist training, years of community organizing around economic and social justice, and a lifetime of experience giving and receiving support in queer community as a trans woman.

Through these experiences I understand that individual expressions of suffering are intimately linked to familial, societal, and global suffering. Therapy can be one place where we can untangle the impacts of oppression and confront harmful systems where we have the most influence – within ourselves, allowing that change to radiate outwards.

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