I have experience helping my clients with a wide array of life challenges, including:

• Carefully revisiting traumatic experiences from childhood and throughout life while fostering healthy integration in the present;

• Depression and anxiety;

• Fostering healthy relationships in the family and your social circle;

• Separation and divorce;

• Meeting health, mental health, and work challenges.

I have training in family mediation, marriage and family therapy, trauma therapy, and working with dissociation and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). I have conducted numerous interpersonal and psycho-educational groups. I have experience supervising new and developing psychotherapists and am meeting the requirements of a qualified supervisor under the CRPO. I have been certified as a Validated Supervisor with the Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals (OAMHP).

My approach is informed by a relational and trauma framework, with a view of validating client experiences, empowering clients to use the tools available to them to meet their life challenges, respectful inquiry, and collaboration to improve their well-being in the here-and-now while working through the effects of earlier experiences and habits.

I have held a status appointment with the University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, for supervision in marriage and couples’ therapy. I offered practicum supervision to numerous Psychotherapy students from U of T (OISE and York University). I have continued supervising Registered Psychotherapists throughout the progression of their professional qualifications.

My approach is relational and interactive and includes attention to the safe and effective use of self, parallel process, healthy self-care as well as healthy boundaries, awareness and meeting the challenges of a diverse client and/or supervisee population, empowerment, and support to develop highly qualified and influential psychotherapists.