Therapist Directory

Bio: My practice is person-centered and strength-based. PHILOSOPHY I think that each person who comes to therapy is unique. Each person attempts to do the best possible with the resources available. Each person has wisdom, creativity, and strength, and is the authority in their life. Counselling means providing a safe space for you to share your story. And it is a space for us to have conversations and work together. APPROACHES The focus of my work is interpersonal violence that includes sexualized violence, racialized violence, workplace violence, and partner violence. Also, I work with issues of loss and grief and issues of suicidality. And I support family members whose loved ones struggle with suicidal behaviours or who have lost loved ones to suicide. I have extensive experience helping people as they make changes in their lives. I work with individuals and draw on therapeutic methods such as narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, the response-based practice framework, motivational interviewing, cognitive-behavioural therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, cognitive processing therapy, trauma-specific, and trauma-informed practice. I incorporate concepts from structural family therapy and intergenerational family therapy. Addressing the physiology of trauma and examining the types of trauma, such as acute, chronic, and complex, are essential to my work. The theories that guide my practice are Black Feminist Thought, Afro-centricity, Intersectionality, and Feminist theory. The loss and grief service I offer provides safe, supportive, and healing sessions where you, the bereaved, can process what has happened in meaningful ways. This service is provided to encourage and strengthen your efforts to heal and grow through loss and grief, and to reduce the effects of high stress commonly associated with grieving losses.