About
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC, BCACC #2360) based in Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, with over 22 years of experience supporting and accompanying adults through anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, trauma, life transitions, and grief. I offer in-person therapy in Vancouver and online counselling to people across British Columbia.
In my counselling practice, I work with life’s discomforts, difficulties, problems and predicaments. Together we focus on what you’re going through, where you feel stuck, and what you want to be free of. I am curious about what goes on between people and what happens, or doesn’t happen, that makes relationships trusting and loving or dangerous and traumatic.
Getting distracted (not only by technology) often comes up as a problem. How do you distract and prevent yourself from getting into what you think you want to get into in life, or even knowing what that might be? What automatic habits do you keep repeating even though you want to stop? What is running you that you’re not aware of? As we examine the origins of your problems you can discover what is hidden and holding you down. This increased awareness is like shining a light in dark corners: you’re able to see more clearly what you’re grappling with and what it might take to liberate yourself.
I’m here to support and encourage you to consider slowing down and ask what’s worrying you, what is unspoken that needs to be said and heard—perhaps for the first time. Together, we can face what you want to face. Then between us, discoveries can be made and novel insights into your problems can be born. Through therapy, meaningful shifts can occur that lead toward you living with more freedom, agency, and ease.
Sometimes people ask me what type of counselling I do. I’m informed by many different theories and thinkers, as well as by poets, gardeners, musicians, dancers, and other artists. My approach is insight-oriented and relational, combining depth-oriented exploration with practical strategies to support you in making the changes you want to make.
I graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1984 with a Bachelor of general studies, and earned a Master’s degree in counselling psychology in 2004 from City University of Seattle (Vancouver). I’ve made my home in Canada, the U.S., and England, settling in Vancouver BC in 1992.
“It takes two to know one.”—Gregory Bateson