Individual counselling

Couples counselling

Grief Education within organisations

I am a Grief and Loss Educator and Counselor specializing in loss stemming from broken dreams, broken hearts and broken relationships.

I believe that YOU are the expert in your life and as your therapist, it would be my honor to come alongside in helping you discover your inner strength and find peace and meaning in a world that hurts and sometimes doesn’t make sense.

All Services Online

Grief Counseling

-Certified Grief Educator through certification program designed by world-renowned grief expert David Kessler

-Psychotherapy for grief support of loss of a loved one, anticipatory grief, and prolonged grief

Individual Psychotherapy

– Over 25 years experience in treating mental disorders and relationship  and life transition issues–with special focus on anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, postpartum depression, aging issues and grief and loss.

Relationship Psychotherapy

-Working with couples to improve their relationship using  Gottman-based techniques, EFT, and many other modalities.

One-on-one therapy

Group therapy

I offer individual online therapy for adults 18 years and older who are experiencing mental health issues related to life transitions including grief and loss, change in lifestyles, family dynamic changes and other typical and potentially stressful life transitions.

Over my 37+ years in the field, I have been searching for what modality of therapy will best serve those seeking mental health services.

What I have found, and psychotherapeutic research has proved, is the therapist is the key change ingredient in most successful therapy. Therapy can provide a space where a person is listened, felt, and experienced at such a concentrated level of sharing with emphasis on every aspect of communication.

I believe the qualities of an ideal therapist is one who can listen intensely, be nonjudgmental, ego subordinate and unconditionally present. The therapist demonstrates and models how to struggle against seemingly destructive personality habits and how to live more open and less defensively.

The therapist presenting as an authentic person that clients can feel comfortable enough with to be open and self-revealing will be key to an optimal therapeutic relationship.

“Effective therapists do not attempt to fit their clients into a particular theoretical model; instead, they try to learn from them and in effect, gradually develop a uniquely personal psychological theory for each individual.” -Robert Firestone, PhD

In other words, the client is the “expert” concerning their lives. This expertise may be unconscious. Through therapy with an open and self-aware therapist, the process becomes a journey of helping the client, within the therapeutic relationship, to be more conscious, therefore empowered to pursue a healthier lifestyle. This requires a therapist to interact in the relationship not only intellectually, but also intuitively.

I use elements of somatoemotional release, psychodynamic and feminist psychotherapies to help inform the work that is done, but primarily the client is the therapy and present moment focus is always on the forefront of the therapeutic process.