I am a Registered Psychotherapist supporting adults (21+), across Ontario, Canada.
In 2008, I founded Recreational Respite, a national organization supporting the disability and neurodiverse community and individuals experiencing mental health challenges. For over two decades, I led the growth and sustainability of the organization while managing complex systems, teams, programming, partnerships, and community initiatives. Leading a team of over 200 recreation therapists, my work focused on reducing barriers to inclusion and fostering identity, connection, wellbeing, and meaningful participation in community life.
This entrepreneurial and leadership experience deeply informs both my mentorship/consultation roles and psychotherapy practice. I work with adults (21+) navigating grief, anxiety, burnout, trauma, isolation, “othering,” career uncertainty, leadership stress, and major life transitions. I have particular interest in supporting individuals working within helping professions, nonprofit and disability sectors, social innovation, caregiving roles, entrepreneurship, and purpose-driven work.
My approach is non-pathologizing, strengths-based, and grounded in the social model of disability and neurodiversity-affirming care. I recognize that emotional wellbeing is often shaped not only by individual experiences, but also by systems, workplace cultures, accessibility barriers, identity, sustainability pressures, and the challenge of balancing purpose with capacity. Therapy is tailored collaboratively to each client’s lived experience, goals, and values.
I integrate a variety of evidence-based approaches, including solution focused therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR (R-TEP/G-TEP), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), alongside expressive arts, mindfulness, yoga-based practices, and narrative therapy. My work is trauma-informed and trauma-focused, with experience supporting PTSD.
I hold a BA (Hons.) in Disability Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MA in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. I am a Registered Psychotherapist in good standing with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA), practicing across Ontario, Canada.
Counselling support for stress, anxiety, and burnout, explores the emotional, physical, and relational impact of ongoing overwhelm and exhaustion.
Chronic stress and anxiety can affect emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing, sometimes leading to burnout — a state of deep fatigue, disconnection, and reduced capacity. Burnout may emerge through caregiving, workplace or leadership responsibilities, masking, identity-related pressures, grief and loss, trauma, chronic illness, emotional labour, or the cumulative impact of navigating environments that feel unsafe, inaccessible, or emotionally demanding.
The effects of burnout may include anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, irritability, difficulty coping, or feeling disconnected from oneself, relationships, work, or sense of identity. Within counselling, we work collaboratively to explore stress responses, patterns, and capacity while supporting nervous system regulation, self-understanding, and a greater sense of balance and safety over time.
Counselling can provide a reflective and supportive space for individuals navigating entrepreneurship, self-employment, leadership, creative practice, and purpose-driven work.
This work often involves holding multiple roles and responsibilities while managing uncertainty, decision-making, workplace stress, identity, self-worth, creative vision, capacity, and sustainability. It may also include exploring burnout, emotional fatigue, boundaries, and the pressures that can arise when personal values and professional roles are closely intertwined.
I also support individuals working within helping professions, nonprofit organizations, disability communities, and social innovation spaces, where the emotional impact of care, advocacy, leadership, and systems navigation can be complex and cumulative.
Within counselling, we explore these experiences in a way that supports clarity, regulation, self-understanding, and alignment between personal wellbeing and the work you are engaged in.
Together, we may explore the connection between emotional wellbeing, the nervous system, hormonal or physical changes, stress responses, grief, capacity, and sense of self.
Living with chronic stress, illness, pain, burnout, or ongoing life transitions can create feelings of uncertainty, disconnection, overwhelm, exhaustion, or loss of identity.
My approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and grounded in understanding the relationship between emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. Counselling may support identifying patterns, triggers, and protective responses while integrating practices and therapeutic approaches that foster regulation, self-understanding, resilience, and a greater sense of safety and balance.
Counselling support for trauma is grounded in creating a safe, supportive, and non-judgemental space where healing can unfold at a pace that honours each person’s lived experience and capacity.
Trauma-informed care considers the wide-ranging impact of trauma on emotional, mental, physical, and relational wellbeing. Trauma can arise from single events or ongoing experiences that overwhelm a person’s ability to cope, often affecting a sense of safety, trust, identity, and connection to self and others.
The effects of trauma may show up in many ways, including heightened anxiety, chronic stress, emotional dysregulation, shutdown, hypervigilance, fatigue, or difficulty feeling grounded in the present. These responses can also be shaped or intensified by navigating complex systems, caregiving roles, identity-related stressors, or environments that feel unsafe, invalidating, or inaccessible.
Within counselling, we work collaboratively to understand these patterns, support nervous system regulation, and gently build resources that support safety, stability, and reconnection with self over time.
Grief is a deeply human experience that extends beyond death and dying, and counselling provides a supportive space to explore the many forms that loss can take.
In my practice, grief counselling considers the impact of any significant loss on an individual’s sense of self, identity, relationships, and place in the world. These losses may include the death of a loved one, as well as identity changes, major life transitions, relational shifts, or the experience of navigating chronic illness, disability, or ongoing health conditions.
Grief may also arise from experiences of being misunderstood, receiving a delayed or missed diagnosis, or feeling “othered” in ways that affect identity and belonging. For many, grief is also shaped by systemic and societal barriers, ongoing exclusion, or the cumulative impact of navigating environments that do not fully recognize or accommodate lived experience.
Within counselling, we work to gently name and make space for these layered experiences of loss, supporting meaning-making, emotional processing, and reconnection with self in a way that is paced, compassionate, and attuned to individual capacity.
Any insurance and benefits, that offer coverage under registered psychotherapy.
Ontario Autism Program, Core Clinical Services can be used for therapy supports.
Community Assistance Program (CAP), with Autism Canada is a subsidy that can be applied for and will cover psychotherapy.
Video Resources
Videos and other audio resources can sometimes offer a common and often comforting voice with a shared message about the human experience in grief.
If you are in immediate crisis, please call 911, or call or text 988 for the suicide crisis hotline, available 24/7.
