Category: Therapy Approach & How I Work
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Becoming More Fully Yourself: Depth Work, the Unconscious, and the Path of Individuation
There is a stage of therapy where symptom relief is no longer the main question. You may already understand your patterns. You may know your attachment style, your coping strategies, your trauma history. And yet something deeper is stirring. A question like: Who am I, beneath adaptation? What is mine…
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Decolonizing the Settler Mind: Therapy for Reckoning, Responsibility, and Belonging in Canada
There comes a point for many white settler Canadians when the story we were taught about this country begins to fracture. The narrative of peacekeeping, multiculturalism, politeness — it no longer holds in the same way once you learn about residential schools, land theft, cultural genocide, and the ongoing realities…
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Eco-Spiritual Therapy: Reclaiming the Wild Self in a Disenchanted World
There’s a particular kind of longing that doesn’t always announce itself loudly. It shows up quietly — as a pull toward the woods, a curiosity about ritual, a sense that something feels missing in a life that otherwise looks “fine.” It can feel like a homesickness without a clear homeland.…
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Burnout Is Not a Personal Failure: It’s a Signal That Something Essential Has Been Overridden
There’s a version of burnout that gets talked about everywhere right now. Take a break. Book a vacation. Do some self-care. Come back refreshed. But what if burnout isn’t just about needing rest? What if it’s about living in a way that no longer fits? In my practice, I don’t…
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The Ecology of the Misfit: Rethinking Neurodivergence, Masking, and the Cost of Endless Adaptation
If you’ve ever found yourself Googling ‘what’s wrong with me’… Sometimes that belief is explicit. Sometimes it’s woven into years of trying harder, performing better, pushing through. Either way, it often sits underneath burnout, anxiety, shame spirals, or the persistent feeling of being slightly out of sync with the world…
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Archetypal Psychology: The Stories Living You (and How to Work With Them)
We don’t just tell stories. Stories tell us. They shape how we see ourselves. What we believe we’re capable of. What roles we slip into without even realizing it. The underdog. The caretaker. The rebel. The one who keeps it all together—until they can’t. If you’ve ever felt like you’re…
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How I Work with Emotions in Therapy (and How You Can Too)
One of the most common questions about therapy is also one of the simplest: What actually happens when we work with emotions? For me, emotions aren’t problems to solve. They’re signals. Movements. Processes that want to complete themselves. A lot of my understanding here is influenced by approaches like AEDP…
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Nature Play as Mental Health Care
We know, on some level, that being in nature helps. There’s research to support it. We’ve felt it ourselves—those moments where something softens, where the noise quiets just enough. And still, it’s often the first thing to disappear when life gets full. Not because it doesn’t matter. But because somewhere…
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Somatic Therapy: Rebuilding a Relationship With Your Body in an Unembodied World
“Where do you feel that in your body?” It’s a common therapy question—one that can feel grounding, confusing, or oddly irritating depending on the day. For some people, it lands as an invitation. For others, it sparks a quiet worry: What if there’s something in there I’m not ready to…
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Understanding ‘Parts Work’ in Therapy: A Path to Self-Leadership
Most of us have had this moment. One part of you wants something—connection, rest, change, expression. Another part hesitates just as quickly. Move forward. Stay safe. Say the thing. Don’t risk it. It can feel confusing. Contradictory. Sometimes even like you’re working against yourself. Parts work offers a different way…
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A Unique Approach to Therapy: Eco-Existential, Humanistic and Relational
There’s a quiet assumption woven into a lot of therapy. That something is wrong. That we are here to fix it. That somewhere along the way, you became a problem to solve. I don’t see it that way. Most of the people I work with are not broken. They are…