Healing Through Grounded Connection

Healing isn't one-size-fits-all.

My practice focuses primarily on supporting adults and couples navigating complex trauma and its impact on emotional wellbeing, relationships, and everyday life.

My approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that meaningful healing begins with safety. Together, we'll move at a pace that honours your nervous system, recognizing that healing cannot be rushed and that lasting change happens through relationship, curiosity, and compassion.

I draw from evidence-based and experiential approaches to create care that is responsive to your needs, goals, and readiness.

Services Offered

What You Can Expect

🌿 Grounded, Trauma-Informed Care

Healing happens best when the nervous system feels supported. I prioritize steadiness, pacing, and regulation so therapy feels manageable rather than overwhelming. This may include grounding, somatic awareness, and building internal resources before deeper processing work.

🌿 Collaborative & Whole-Person Care

Therapy is built on relationship. I believe meaningful change happens when you feel seen, heard, and understood. Rather than focusing only on symptoms, we consider the connection between your mind, body, emotions, relationships, environment, and lived experiences.

🌿 Consent, Choice & Individualized Support

You are the expert in your own life. Therapy is guided by informed consent, transparency, and collaboration at every stage. We move at a pace that feels right for you, adapting our approach to your goals, strengths, culture, identity, and the ways you naturally experience and process the world.

🌿 Inclusive & Affirming Care

I strive to create a welcoming, respectful, and non-judgmental space for people of all identities and lived experiences, including LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, Indigenous, and neurodivergent clients.

I recognize that identity, culture, systemic oppression, discrimination, intergenerational trauma, and lived experience can shape mental health and wellbeing. I approach this work with cultural humility, curiosity, and respect, without assumption or judgment.

🌿 Ethical & Evidence-Informed Care

My work is guided by professional ethics, ongoing education, and the standards of practice of BCACC, BCCNM, and CRPNA. I aim to integrate evidence-based approaches with compassionate, individualized care.

EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Traumatic experiences can leave our nervous systems feeling as though something is still happening in the present, even when the experience has long since passed. This can show up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, feeling constantly on edge, disturbing memories, difficulty trusting yourself or others, or patterns that feel difficult to change.

EMDR is an evidence-based approach that helps the brain and nervous system process experiences that have become "stuck," allowing them to be integrated with less emotional intensity.

Safety Comes First

EMDR does not begin with processing your most difficult experiences.

We first focus on creating a foundation of safety, stability, and internal resources. This may include grounding strategies, nervous system regulation, developing a sense of safety, and strengthening your ability to manage difficult emotions.

Resource building can be especially important for people with complex trauma or experiences that have affected their sense of safety over time. These skills become tools you can draw on both within therapy and in everyday life.

Only when you feel sufficiently prepared do we consider moving into deeper processing. The pace is collaborative, and there is never pressure to move faster than feels manageable.

EMDR May Be Helpful For

Recent traumatic or distressing experiences
PTSD
Complex trauma and C-PTSD
Childhood and developmental trauma
Attachment wounds
Anxiety and panic
Grief and loss
Distressing or intrusive memories
Negative beliefs about yourself that developed
through difficult experiences
Healthcare and workplace-related trauma
First responder experiences
Addiction and concurrent mental health concerns

EMDR can be adapted to your individual circumstances, whether you're working through a single traumatic event or the effects of experiences that have accumulated over time.

Individual Counselling

No two people experience healing in the same way.

Rather than asking you to fit into one therapeutic model, I integrate different approaches based on your needs, goals, strengths, and what feels most supportive.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT explores the relationship between thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and physical responses. Together, we may identify patterns contributing to distress and develop practical strategies for emotional regulation and sustainable change.

Narrative Therapy

Narrative therapy explores the stories we carry about ourselves and our lives. Together, we can make space for perspectives that honour your strengths, values, resilience, and sense of agency.

Somatic & Nervous System-Informed Approaches

Healing doesn't happen through words alone. I integrate gentle somatic and experiential practices to help you notice body-based responses, build regulation, and develop a greater sense of connection with yourself.

This may include grounding, breath, body awareness, imagery, or other approaches that feel appropriate for you.

These modalities are woven together rather than used as a checklist. Our work is shaped by what you need.

Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy

Relationships can be one of our greatest sources of connection and healing, but they can also become places where old wounds, patterns of protection, and unmet needs emerge.

When one or both partners have experienced trauma, communication can become more difficult, conflict may escalate quickly, or one person may withdraw while the other reaches for connection. Often, these responses are not signs of a lack of love or commitment—they are the nervous system's way of trying to stay safe.

Together, we'll work to better understand these patterns, strengthen emotional safety, improve communication, and foster greater connection through a compassionate, trauma-informed lens.

Couples therapy may be helpful for:

Trauma affecting one or both partners
Addiction and recovery
Communication difficulties
Trust and attachment concerns
Repeated conflict cycles
Life transitions and grief
Strengthening emotional connection

Psychedelic Integration Therapy

I offer psychedelic integration therapy in alignment with Canadian laws and professional regulations. I do not provide, prescribe, or facilitate psychedelic substances.

Sometimes psychedelic experiences can bring forward meaningful insights, unresolved emotions, or questions that continue long after the experience itself. Integration therapy offers a safe, grounded space to explore these experiences with curiosity and compassion.

Together, we may explore:

Making sense of meaningful or challenging experiences
Processing emotions or memories that surfaced
Navigating changes in identity, relationships, or worldview
Supporting nervous system regulation following an experience
Integrating insights into everyday life in practical and sustainable ways
Exploring spirituality, meaning, and personal growth in a way that aligns with your own values

My background in trauma therapy and psychiatric nursing allows me to approach integration carefully, recognizing that insight alone is not healing. Lasting change happens when experiences are processed, understood, and gently woven into everyday life with safety and support.

Values & Accountability

My work as a therapist is grounded in the belief that healing does not happen in isolation — it is shaped by relationships, systems, identity and the communities we are part of.

I hold a deep respect for the lands I live and work on and for the ongoing responsibilities that come with being in relationship with Indigenous communities. I recognize that meaningful care requires ongoing reflection, accountability and a willingness to keep learning.

As part of this commitment, I intentionally contribute 2% of annual profits to Indigenous-led healing organizations. Each year, I select a different organization to support based on community need and alignment with healing-focused work. Most recently, I contributed to the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society.

I am also committed to creating a practice that is inclusive, affirming and safe for people of all identities. This includes LGBTQ2S+ communities and people with diverse racial, cultural and lived experiences. I strive to approach this work with cultural humility, respect and an ongoing awareness of the impact of systemic oppression, intergenerational trauma and discrimination on mental health and wellbeing.

Alongside this, I hold a neurodiversity-affirming approach to care. I recognize that different nervous systems experience the world in different ways, and I work with flexibility and respect for a wide range of neurodivergent experiences, including ADHD, autism, sensory differences, learning differences, and other ways of processing and being in the world.

This is ongoing work, not a fixed destination. I aim to continue growing in ways that support more thoughtful, ethical, inclusive and relational care.

Fees, Coverage & Direct Billing

British Columbia

Individual counselling — $165 / 50 minutes
Couples counselling — $225 / 75 minutes

Counselling may be covered through extended health benefits when provided by a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC). Coverage varies between plans, so I recommend checking with your provider to confirm your eligibility and reimbursement amount.

Direct billing is available through Telus Health for eligible extended health plans. If you're unsure whether your plan covers RCC services or whether direct billing is available, you're welcome to reach out before booking.

Alberta

Individual counselling — $187 / 50 minutes

I provide virtual counselling to clients located in Alberta, including eligible Indigenous clients accessing services through the Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB) program.

I also provide contract counselling services with Indigenous Psychological Services, supporting Indigenous clients accessing NIHB-funded care.

If you are interested in using NIHB funding, please connect with me before booking so we can confirm eligibility and determine the appropriate funding arrangements.

Private-pay counselling is also available to Alberta clients who wish to connect directly with Grounded Connections.

Reduced-Fee Options

I recognize that the cost of counselling can be a barrier to accessing support. A limited number of reduced-fee spaces may be available when capacity allows. If finances are a concern, you're welcome to reach out to discuss whether an option may be available.

Areas of Focus

My practice focuses primarily on supporting adults and couples navigating complex trauma and its impact on emotional wellbeing, relationships, and everyday life.

This may include trauma-related anxiety and overwhelm, attachment and relationship patterns, emotional regulation, addiction and substance use, and other challenges that can emerge in the context of trauma.

I also offer trauma-informed couples therapy for relationships where one or both partners have experienced trauma.

Ready to Begin?

Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or ready for something to change, you don’t have to navigate it alone.
If you’re curious about working together, I invite you to explore my services, browse the FAQs, or book a complimentary 15-minute consultation. It’s a chance for us to connect, answer any questions you may have, and see whether working together feels like the right fit.