About Me

Welcome. I provide counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, and families. My practice is located in Toronto.

I have thirty years experience providing counselling to people engaging with a wide range of issues and concerns. I have experience with anxiety and depression, grief and loss, parenting and relationship issues, mid-life transitions such as menopause and career changes, trauma, and addictions.

For over twenty years, I worked at community mental health agencies in Toronto serving diverse communities across the lifespan. My early practice focused on working with parents addressing concerns related to the various stages of childrearing from newborns and the postpartum period through to teenagers and everything in between. I also have experience working with families with high conflict, communication breakdown, and separation and divorce. I have experience navigating health and mental health systems and organizations. My work in community mental health allowed me to develop a knowledge base and clinical expertise to work effectively and compassionately in my current private practice. I am a parent and step-parent myself and have learned much from my own family about the importance of patience, humility, and humour – all of which I bring to my practice. 

I am a Registered Social Worker with a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto. I am committed to ongoing learning and professional development and have postgraduate certifications in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and Children’s Grief and Bereavement. I am also trained in Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Schema Therapy. I combine treatment modalities to meet the unique needs of each client. My therapeutic approach is comprehensive and integrative, incorporating both cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic approaches.

My counselling practice is firmly rooted in a feminist anti-racist anti-oppressive framework. I consider the impacts of the social determinants of health on mental well-being and my practice emphasizes client choice, self-determination, and harm reduction. 

Education:

2001    Master of Social Work, University of Toronto

2000    Bachelor of Social Work, York University

1997    Diploma, Counsellor/Advocate for Assaulted Women and Children, George Brown College

1994 Bachelor of Arts, University of Toronto

Professional Membership:

2003 – Present    Ontario Association of Social Workers

2001 – Present    Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers (Reg. #802523)