Credential & Education
Registered Psychotherapist with Ontario’s College of Registered Psychotherapists (Licence # 13825)
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Yorkville University
Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Degree
Professional Associations
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (license #11245216)
College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (license #13825)
Special Training & Certifications
Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS), 2022 (PESI Certificate)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Training Level 1 & 2 with Stacy Lane Stoddard – EMDRIA-Approved
Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1, 2022 (The Gottman Institute)
Gottman Method Treating Affair and Trauma in Couples (The Gottman Institute)
Applied Suicide Interventions Skills Training (ASIST), 2023 (LivingWorks Certificate)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Evergreen)
Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist Intensive Training (ASDCS) (PESI Certificate)
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Anxiety
It’s important to know that you don’t have to live with anxiety and fear if you experience panic attacks, obsessive thoughts, constant worries, or a phobia. Therapy can help and is often the best way to address many anxiety issues. Therapy equips you with the tools to overcome anxiety and teaches you how to utilize them.
Depression
Depression is characterized by extreme sadness or hopelessness lasting more than a few days and impacting individuals in various ways. It can significantly impair a person’s ability to function in everyday situations. Fortunately, depression is highly treatable, and therapy can be a potent remedy for its effects.
ADHD
Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be challenging, as its symptoms can complicate everyday activities. It’s crucial to seek the support necessary to understand and manage your or your child’s condition. Research suggests that psychotherapy may help alleviate ADHD symptoms, such as irritability, aggression, difficulty paying attention, and hyperactivity.
Chronic Stress & Burnout
Stress can escalate into chronic stress, eventually resulting in burnout if left untreated. While stress often makes individuals feel overwhelmed, burnout leaves them feeling utterly exhausted, with nothing more to give. Therapy offers strategies to manage and cope with stress symptoms, potentially preventing burnout.
Life Transitions
As we navigate life’s transitions, many changes can be challenging and profoundly impactful. Whether it’s the excitement of starting a new job or the loss of a loved one, transitions can bring stress. How do we understand and cope with these changes? Psychotherapy offers support to navigate challenges, easing the transition process.
Trauma
The effects of trauma can deeply impact various aspects of life, leading to long-term consequences. Trauma therapy offers support for coping with both one-time events and ongoing situations. It addresses a wide range of traumas, including abuse, accidents, and loss, providing a safe space to process emotions and develop coping skills.
Behavioural Issues
The main aim of behavioural therapy is to replace self-defeating behaviours with meaningful and rewarding ones. It fosters positive self-perception and emotional responses, reducing conflict and enhancing interpersonal relationships. Through therapy, individuals learn to manage negative emotions constructively, gaining control over their reactions.
Coping Skills
People handle stress and overwhelming emotions in various ways. Rather than addressing the issue directly, some may resort to unhealthy distractions or outlets, like anger turning into aggression or developing substance addictions. Therapy offers support in developing positive coping strategies and tools for healthier management. Through open discussion, allowing emotions without being overwhelmed, and focusing on the present, therapy aids in stress management.
Self-esteem
Self-esteem is vital for well-being, yet low self-esteem can cause shame, doubt, and hinder relationships and goals. Therapy helps by addressing negative self-talk, fostering self-compassion, and setting achievable goals, leading to improved self-esteem. It’s a journey that takes time and effort to overcome old patterns, but progress is possible. Remember, “New things take time to learn.” Let’s start!
Anger Management
Although anger is a natural human emotion, uncontrolled anger can quickly become problematic. Therapy can help you recognize and avoid triggers that provoke anger and provide strategies to manage sudden outbursts. By examining the thoughts preceding your anger, you can learn to resolve conflicts more constructively and mend relationships affected by it.
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence encompasses abuse by various household members and intimate partners, involving physical, sexual, emotional, or psychological harm. Therapy aids survivors by restoring self-image, fostering trust, addressing anxieties, managing guilt and anger, identifying triggers, and treating associated mental health issues.
Parenting
Parenting is both challenging and rewarding. Therapy provides guidance for addressing children’s emotional, developmental, and behavioural issues, offering new tools and strategies. It fosters a stable, supportive family environment, promotes trusting relationships, facilitates conflict resolution, helps plan for challenging situations, and supports parental self-care.
Family Conflict Resolution
Family is an important support system as everyone needs to feel supported and loved by their family and relationships. Family and relationships can include parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends. Occasionally, a child might have a conflict with a loved one or could be experiencing the effects of divorce and being away from a loved one. For caregivers, it’s essential to help a child identify who they might be having issues with and help resolve these conflicts.
Relationship Issues
Relationship therapy is for any relationship, including couples, family members, friends, and other relationship structures. Relationship-related treatment gives you the tools to overcome emotional distance, lessen misunderstandings, deal with negative emotions, reestablish meaningful connections, and increase your comprehension of the root reasons for unhealthy patterns in your interactions with the people who matter most to you.
Couples Counselling
Every relationship has its ups and downs. But when things become stressful or unavoidable, even the smallest issues can become burdensome for one person or both. Relationship therapy provides tools to overcome emotional distance, minimize misunderstandings, address negative emotions, rebuild meaningful connections, and enhance understanding of dysfunctional patterns between yourself and those who are important to you.
Women’s Issues
Women may experience emotional challenges related to gender, which can significantly impact mental health and overall well-being. These challenges may encompass anxiety, depression, disordered eating behaviour, postpartum depression, domestic violence, sexual abuse, discrimination, hormonal changes, infertility, and low self-esteem. Choosing to pursue therapy can be a crucial initial step toward healing.
Cultural Distress and Immigration Issues
Acculturation involves individuals, families, or cultural groups adjusting their original social and cultural values, ideas, beliefs, and behaviours to align with those of a new culture. Differences in immigration and acculturation can impact a person’s psychological well-being and overall adaptation to a new culture and country. It influences various aspects of life, including language, behaviour, values, beliefs, and social interactions. We recognize the challenges of multiculturalism, immigration, and acculturation and are here to support your adaptation, address your goals, and find solutions to any difficulties that may arise.