About Me

I am a white, queer settler of Irish and Scottish descent, currently living and working on unceded and unsurrendered Algonquin Anishinaabeg territory. My ancestors were settlers who took part in the ongoing colonization of both Hul’qumi’num and Algonquin lands. I was born on K’ómoks territory and raised among the lands of the Lekwungen and Songhees Nations, where early experiences of land, water, and relationship began shaping my understanding of belonging. This history informs my commitment to decolonization, social justice, and ongoing reflection about how I move in relationship with others and the places that hold us.

My work as a therapist is informed by my education, professional trainings, lived experience, and an ongoing commitment to learning, accountability, and relationship. It continues to evolve through my work with individuals, families, and communities, as well as through my own healing journey.

I work alongside children, youth, adults, and families, accompanying people through seasons of change, growth, grief, and reconnection. My practice is grounded in curiosity, collaboration, creativity, and play, and shaped by a belief that healing is something we enter into together - relationally, slowly, and with care. I practice from a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and neurodiversity-affirming lens, and warmly welcome 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and their families. With extensive experience supporting queer and trans communities, I am committed to creating spaces where people can show up as they are, without needing to translate or defend their identities.

I naturally gravitate toward empowering, collaborative, and strengths-based approaches to therapy. My practice is informed by values of anti-oppression, liberation, and care, with particular attention to the ways multiple and interwoven systems of oppression impact Black and Indigenous people, people of colour, disabled and neurodiverse people, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. I also hold values of sex-, poly-, and kink-positivity, alongside a harm-reduction approach.

I often work beyond words, recognizing that healing does not always happen through conversation alone. Depending on your needs and preferences, our work together may include art-making, movement, play, storytelling, or time outdoors. Many people find that creative and embodied approaches can offer different pathways into healing - ways of accessing what is felt, remembered, or known beneath language. Nature-based and walk-and-talk therapy can also be part of our work together, offering opportunities to reconnect with the body, the land, and your own ways of sensing and being in the world.

I am a Registered Social Worker and Educator. I hold a Bachelor of Education, specializing in Art and Math, from the University of Victoria, and a Master's of Social Work from Carleton University. My clinical training includes Internal Family Systems, Play Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy. I am a Certified Nature-Based Therapist (Level 1) through Human-Nature Counselling, and have completed the Forest and Nature School Practitioner's certification through Child and Nature Alliance of Canada. 

I hold gratitude for the ways the land has taught me to listen—

in the Pacific Northwest,
feet sinking into spongy, breathing moss,
the sideways flicker of crabs beneath lifted stones,
barnacles opening to the pull of the moon,
an eagle’s voice splitting the sky.

In the Eastern Woodlands,
loon song carrying across water at dusk,
beavers tending the slow architecture of water,
coyotes slipping between shadow and story,
held in what is seen, and what is sensed.