Rising Rooted

I’ve always been drawn to the deeper questions — why we are the way we are, how we heal, and what it means to live a meaningful life. My work as a therapist is an extension of that curiosity. I don’t believe healing follows a single formula. I believe it emerges through creative, individualized processes that honour who you are and the life you’re living.

I’m an existential optimist, which means I hold a deep belief in transformation and possibility — even when things feel stuck or heavy. My own path into this work wasn’t linear. I’ve lived through burnout, ADHD, intense self-doubt, and attachment wounds, often navigating the world as a deep feeler who learned to rely on intellectualization for safety. There was a period in my life when I lost touch with myself entirely — a long and complex relationship with depression and a BPD label that once offered meaning and structure, but no longer reflects how I understand myself.

One of the most formative lessons in my own healing came from depth psychology: symptoms come and go. You can spend a lifetime trying to eliminate them, and they may still return. What actually changes things is the relationship you have with your symptoms — the meaning you make of them, and the way you shape your life in response to what they’re asking of you.

I am still the same person I’ve always been. What changed was not who I am, but how I relate to myself. Over time, I stopped organizing my identity around diagnoses and began building a life that accommodates my neurodivergence, sensitivity, and imagination rather than fighting against them. That journey brought me back into relationship with nature, embodiment, creativity, and a sense of magic in everyday life — not as escape, but as grounding.

This perspective shapes how I work. My approach is rooted in eco-existentialism, somatic therapy, and attachment-based work. I see therapy as a process of reconnection — to yourself, to your body, to others, and to the wider world you’re living within. Often, healing requires an honest look at the ways we’ve adapted to modern life, internalized limiting beliefs, or contorted ourselves to fit systems that don’t actually support our well-being.

At Rising Rooted, I work with people who are seeking more than symptom relief. They’re asking deeper questions about how they want to live. My role isn’t to tell you what to do or who to be, but to walk alongside you as you explore what brings meaning, agency, and aliveness back into your life — and to help you find creative ways to live more in alignment with yourself, even within imperfect systems.

Credentials:

• Registered Psychotherapist #11705
• Canadian Certified Counsellor #11243391
• Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology
• Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology
• Diploma in Social Service Work

Learn more about my story in this blog post.