I'm the director of HTC Practice and Hamilton Therapy Collective. As a psychotherapist, I care a lot about my clients. I work carefully to create a safe, supportive, non-judgmental and genuine relationship between us. I bring humour and curiosity to the therapy dynamic, integrating relational, experiential and psychoanalytical styles of healing. I specialize in working with those who have lived through and with attachment, relational and complex (CPTSD) traumas. Most of my clients have experienced abuse, neglect, or some kind of significant dysfunction in their upbringings. These early adverse experiences can impact many facets of one’s life and will often lead to secondary issues like anxiety, depression, harmful coping patterns, and ongoing relationship difficulties.  Collaboratively we’ll use ‘bottom up’ styles of processing to get at the core of how you’ve learned to be you. This means working with deep-rooted emotions, memories, triggers, etc. Together we will get curious, make connections, update old learnings, process through wounds, and gain insights that can create lasting transformational change. I also work with many clients in more of a generalized counseling capacity. This can look like gaining perspective and organizing your thoughts, tackling unresolved issues that you may be carrying forward, or addressing strategies and styles that are no longer serving you. Together we can figure out what is in the way of your growth, of your empowerment, and of how you want to be showing up in your life. I believe that we are each highly adaptive, that our problems make sense (even the messiest bits!) and that many of our difficulties start off as solutions to help us stay safe and to survive. My approach is highly compassionate, affirming, and non-pathologizing.  Let’s make sense of your story, draw on your internal resources and get you to a place of security and authenticity. In addition to being a Registered Psychotherapist with a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology, I have graduate certification in Art Therapy, an Advanced Certification in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, and I am trained as an EMDR clinician. Areas of focus: - EMDR therapy for trauma and PTSD (first responders, front-line workers, victims of violence and abuse, childhood trauma and CPTSD) - Psychedelic therapy integration sessions - Life transitions - Self-esteem - Identity issues - Relationship conflicts (marital, parenting, romantic, platonic, familial) - Overwhelm, burnout and compassion fatigue