It has been a long and rewarding path to get where I am today. I started my journey as a helping professional in a shelter for women and children impacted by intimate partner violence. As acase manager, crisis worker, and sometimes cook and childcare worker, I learned how to meetpeople where they were and seek to provide support without judgement. I learned that a personis the expert on their own life, and empowering this understanding is essential. This roleconnected my passion for equity and social justice to work that advanced this vision.

This continued many years later, when I was the director of a shelter for homeless families. Iworked with a team of dedicated people to create a welcoming and safe space for families incrisis. Being a leader alongside a team of dedicated helping professionals taught me a lot aboutliving my values. Collaboration is key, regardless of the part you play on a team.

I have also worked as a facilitator of a men’s group. This work taught me to feel compassion formen whose struggles have left them unable to express emotions in a healthy/outward way, andwho needed to feel seen and supported in their effort to heal their own traumas.

Currently I am in private practice. I work to provide therapy that focuses on strategies that help a person to cope, while they work on healing emotional wounds. I believe that each step on a journey of healing helps not only the individual but ripples out to help our world. This makes it important work for you, for those you love, and many others as well.

Most recently, I work using a somatic approach that incorporates both Compassionate Inquiry(Gabor Mate), and an Internal Family Systems approach. I continue to use Solution FocusedCounselling as well.

I love to travel, love all things vintage and unique, love art of all kinds, and welcome just aboutany new experience. I strive to live my life in a way that seeks to practice what I preach.Sometimes I am successful.