Adult and Teen Therapist for Body Image, Grief, Chronic Pain
Welcome, feel free to get to know me...
As a young person, I struggled with my mental health, a lack of support in my community, and navigating significant losses of my peers. All these experiences have etched themselves in my memory. I remember feeling like there wasn’t anything or anyone that could really hold me and support me where I lived.
Coming from Northern British Columbia, I’m intimately familiar with the common experience of living somewhere semi-rural and having access to very few options. This experience drives so much of what I do now.
🌙 I am a white, settler with European ancestry from Scotland, Ireland, and Ukraine and benefit from the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
🌙 I am fat and a person who has a lifelong experience of fatness.
🌙 I’m a cisgender woman, queer/bisexual.
🌙 I have lived experience of disordered eating, sexual violence, chronic pain, depression, and anxiety.
My social locations
I want to build connections with people, and build the type of support network and community that didn’t exist for me when I was growing up.
I love nothing more than witnessing the folks I work with shift their trust, and their sense of self, and cultivate a sense of community that feels more aligned for them. I feel so grateful that I get to build community through my work.
I have spent my career providing dignified support to diverse communities and I am committed to showing up with that same standard for all of my clients.
Training & Experience
Education
Master of Counselling, City University of Seattle (Graduated 2021)
Bachelor of Social work, University of Victoria, 2014
Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, UNBC, 2008
License
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors: Registration Number 18843
Experience
Intern Counsellor, Family Service of Vancouver, Vancouver (2019-2020)
Counselling Manager, DIversity (2021-2023)
Various positions, Broadway Youth Resource Centre (2012-2020)
Specialized trainings
Healing Beyond the Hurt: A Neurobiological Approach to Treating Chronic Pain and Illness, Dr. Kate Truitt, 2024
groundworks program, Center for Body Trust, 2024
Foundations of Narrative Therapy, Vancouver School of Narrative Therapy, 2023
Brainspotting 1 & 2, 2022
The competent sex therapist, Allura Centre, 2022
Eating Disorder Certified Professional, Ample & Rooted, 2022
Sanyas Indigenous Cultural Training, PHSA, 2017
Heart of Facilitation, PYE Global, 2014
