My practice is person-centered and strength-based.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe 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 collaborate.

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 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 individuals make changes in their lives.  

I work with individuals, drawing from therapeutic methods such as narrative therapy, solution-focused therapy, the response-based practice framework, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness-based techniques, and trauma-informed practice.  I incorporate concepts from structural family therapy and intergenerational family therapy.  

In October 2025, I am offering Cognitive Processing Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. 

CRISIS SUPPORT COUNSELLING (one session): Also, starting October 2025, I will provide short-term, immediate support to help individuals overwhelmed by challenging situations. In crisis support work, the focus is on stabilizing, assessing, regulating thoughts and emotions, and referral.

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. 

In addition to death losses, I address living losses such as the impact of life events such as interpersonal violence (For example, the losses from racialized and sexualized violence, and more), displacement from immigration-refugee (homelands), students and disconnection (For example, students and the lack of socialization, school transitions, loss of relationships, separation due to changing schools), friendships, environmental, miscarriages, job loss, caregiver loss - incarceration, and more.