Services
Counselling and psychotherapy for adults (18+), offered in person, by phone, or by online video.
Support for anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, life transitions, relationship concerns, and more.
How Sessions Work
I offer counselling and psychotherapy to adults (18+), supporting a wide range of experiences including anxiety, depression, trauma, suicidal thoughts, stress, grief, anger, relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, health challenges, life transitions, and personal growth.
Sessions are offered in the format that best supports your needs:
In person
By phone
Through secure online video
In-Person Availability
Tuesday and Wednesday: 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Thursday: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Online sessions may offer additional flexibility outside of in-person hours. Please contact me to inquire about availability.
Fees
Individuals: $150 per 60-minute session
Couples: $170 per 60-minute session
A complimentary 20-minute consultation is available to help determine whether working together is a good fit.
Direct Billing
I am registered for direct billing with ICBC, FNHA, Medavie Blue Cross, CVAP, Sun Life and Greenshield. For all other insurance providers, please check your individual coverage. Payment is required at the time of service, and receipts will be provided for you to submit to your insurer. The BCPFFA Firefighter’s Bronze Shield is recognized as an endorsement.
Payment
Payment is due at the time of service. Accepted methods of payment include cash, e-transfer, and credit card.
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy are both talk therapies that support greater self-understanding, emotional wellbeing, and meaningful change. While they share similarities, they often serve different needs and timeframes.
Counselling typically focuses on specific concerns or life challenges. It supports overall wellbeing and helps you develop practical ways to cope, gain clarity, and move forward. Because people are the experts of their own lives, my role is to support you in exploring what is getting in the way and identifying solutions that feel right for you.
Psychotherapy may involve a longer-term commitment and is often helpful when concerns are more chronic, recurring, or deeply rooted. It may include exploring past experiences and how they continue to shape thoughts, emotions, and patterns in the present, supporting deeper insight and lasting change.
Both approaches are collaborative, respectful, and paced according to your needs.
Couples Counselling
I also work with couples who are experiencing relationship challenges, communication difficulties, or periods of transition.
Couples counselling offers a supportive space to better understand patterns within the relationship, strengthen connection, and learn more effective ways of communicating and navigating conflict. My work with couples is grounded in evidence-based approaches, including the Gottman Method and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Together, we focus on increasing awareness, improving emotional safety, and supporting couples in aligning their actions with shared values and goals.
Therapeutic Approach
I use a holistic, client-centred approach that is research-based and tailored to each individual’s needs, experiences, and goals. Therapy is collaborative and paced with care, respecting your unique history and what feels most supportive for you.
My work draws primarily from evidence-based approaches that support awareness, emotional regulation, and meaningful change. Depending on what you are working through, therapy may include a combination of the following:
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Mindfulness-based approaches
Solution-focused therapy
You do not need to know which approach is right for you before beginning. We will explore what fits best, together.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it..
I love this quote by the developer of ACT (Steven Hayes)– what I try to help clients with:
"We as a culture seem to be dedicated to the idea that ‘negative’ human emotions need to be fixed, managed, or changed—not experienced as part of a whole life. We are treating our own lives as problems to be solved as if we can sort through our experiences for the ones we like and throw out the rest," Hayes writes in a Psychology Today post. "Acceptance, mindfulness, and values are key psychological tools needed for that transformative shift."
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EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.
Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound. If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering. Once the block is removed, healing resumes.
Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.
Why These Approaches
I return to these approaches because they are compassionate toward the self, effective across a wide range of concerns, and supportive of meaningful, lasting change. Rather than focusing on fixing or eliminating difficult experiences, they allow space for understanding, acceptance, and growth.
These approaches support healing that comes from within, helping remove blocks to the mind and body’s natural tendency toward health. While I draw from other methods as needed, after many years in practice, I have found these approaches to be the most supportive for clients.
If you are considering counselling and would like to explore whether this approach is a good fit, you are welcome to get in touch.