Approaches

I believe you are the expert in your own life. My role is not to tell you who to be or what to do, but to walk alongside you with curiosity, care, and respect as we explore what matters most to you. Therapy is a collaborative relationship, and I work to create a space where you feel safe enough to be honest, challenged enough to grow, and supported enough to move at your own pace.

Alongside making space for pain and struggle, I also pay attention to your existing strengths, resilience, wisdom, and ways of coping - especially the ones that may have helped you survive until now. Together, we work to build on what is already present, while making room for what wants to change.

For many people, healing feels different outdoors. The natural world can offer spaciousness, perspective, grounding, and connection in ways that traditional office settings sometimes cannot. Nature-based therapy invites the land into the therapeutic process - not as a backdrop, but as a relationship.

This may include slowing down to notice sensory experiences, engaging with seasonal rhythms, or spending time in nature as a place to reconnect with your body, emotions, and inner knowing. Nature-based therapy can support regulation, reflection, grief, creativity, and a renewed sense of belonging—to yourself, to place, and to the wider world.

The stories we carry matter - stories we’ve been told about ourselves, stories we’ve learned from family, culture, and systems, and stories we’ve come to believe about what is possible for us.

Narrative therapy invites us to gently examine these stories with curiosity: Which ones have shaped you? Which ones have constrained you? Which ones still fit - and which ones no longer do?

Together, we work to separate you from the problems you are facing, honour the complexity of your lived experience, and make space for alternative stories - ones that feel more aligned with your values, your hopes, and the life you want to live.

Trauma can shape how we experience safety, connection, emotion, memory, and the body. Neurodivergence can shape how we process information, relationships, sensory experiences, and the world around us. Neither is something to be fixed - instead, both invite understanding, care, and support that is attuned to your unique needs.

My practice is grounded in a trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming approach, which means we prioritize safety, choice, consent, and collaboration. We move at a pace that respects your nervous system, rather than pushing against it. This can include attending to sensory needs, communication preferences, energy levels, masking, burnout, or the ways you naturally regulate and make sense of the world.

I aim to create a therapeutic space that is flexible and responsive rather than prescriptive - one that honours different ways of thinking, feeling, processing, and being. You are not expected to fit into a normative idea of how therapy “should” look in order to be supported here.

Our struggles do not happen in isolation from the world around us. Systems of power - such as colonialism, racism, ableism, cis-heteronormativity, capitalism, and white supremacy - shape our identities, our relationships, and our wellbeing.

An anti-oppressive and intersectional approach means recognizing that healing is not only personal; it is also social and political. It means acknowledging the inherent power dynamics within therapy, remaining accountable to them, and making space for conversations about identity, privilege, marginalization, and resistance.

A decolonial lens asks us to question dominant ways of knowing and being, and to honour diverse cultural knowledges, ancestral practices, and ways of healing. I strive to practice with humility, accountability, and an ongoing commitment to unlearning and relational repair.

Not everything that needs healing can be spoken.

Sometimes words are not enough - or they arrive later. Creative and embodied approaches invite other ways of knowing into the room: art-making, movement, play, imagination, sensory exploration, metaphor, and attention to the body.

These approaches can help us access emotions, memories, and meanings that live beneath language, while also offering gentler ways to process difficult experiences. You do not need to consider yourself “creative” to work this way - only open to exploring what emerges when we listen differently.