For many years, I lived with intense fears and anxiety. That lived experience shapes my work and deepens my care for those moving through difficult seasons.

Whether you are navigating a breakup, feeling anxious around certain people or situations, struggling with a sense of belonging, or longing to feel more at home in yourself, I understand how heavy life can sometimes feel. Racing thoughts, a tight chest, and the sense of being stuck can be exhausting.

At the same time, I believe that even when life feels difficult, resilience can be cultivated and new possibilities can slowly take root.

My Story

I was born in Germany and spent much of my early life moving between American military bases. These experiences shaped my relationship to belonging, transition, identity, and culture.

I identify as a Black and biracial, cisgender, heterosexual woman and hold my African American and German heritage with care. My own experiences continue to inform my curiosity about how identity, culture, family, and the larger world shape the ways we understand ourselves and our place within them.

I have always been drawn to people and their stories.

Before becoming a counsellor, I spent more than fifteen years working as a performer. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Performance, and my background in theatre continues to influence my appreciation for creativity, embodiment, expression, and the stories we carry about ourselves.

Over time, my interest in people, relationships, and personal growth evolved and led me to counselling.

I completed coursework at the Community Counselling Skills Certificate program at Vancouver Community College before earning my Master of Counselling from City University of Seattle in Vancouver. Across both programs, my coursework included foundational counselling skills, adolescent development, and learning related to supporting couples and relationships.

My earlier experiences in theatre and my counselling education have come together over more than a decade of work as a counsellor and psychotherapist.

How I Work

In our work together, you are the centre.

Therapy can be a space to listen more closely to your inner life, explore the experiences and patterns that have shaped you, and create new possibilities that reflect your values, dignity, and becoming.

My approach is person-centred, feminist, integrative, and culturally responsive. I work collaboratively with clients to explore what creates a meaningful and fulfilling life, including space for life's bigger questions.

I attend to the ways that relationships, culture, race, gender, family histories, work, and larger social systems can shape both well-being and distress.

Depending on your needs, our work may include mindfulness, gentle body-based practices, grounding, creative expression, and practical strategies for managing stress and emotional overwhelm.

Creating an Affirming Space

I strive to continue learning and to offer an informed, respectful, and affirming space for people from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences, including members of BIPOC and LGBTQ2iA+ communities. As part of my counselling training, I was fortunate to complete my practicum at Qmunity, a Vancouver-based 2SLGBTQIA+ community organization. This experience allowed me to work directly within the community and deepened my understanding of the diverse experiences, strengths, and challenges that can shape LGBTQ2iA+ lives.

I approach this work with cultural humility and recognize that I will not fully understand every aspect of another person's experience. Rather than assuming, I strive to remain curious, listen carefully, and make space for you to define what is meaningful and important in your life.

We may gently explore how systems and social realities shape your inner world while also tending to your strengths, relationships, capacity for choice, and sense of empowerment.

I hope to offer a space where you can bring your whole self:

your history, identity, questions, struggles, strengths, and hopes, and where together, we can explore what it might mean to move forward in a way that feels aligned with your values and highest hopes for yourself.

Additional Professional Development:

• An Ethics of Justice-Doing in Therapeutic Supervision, Vikki Reynolds

• Threat Analysis: Improving Self-Regulation with Practical Brain Science, Cascadia Training

• Clinical Supervision in Counselling and Psychotherapy Levels 1 and 2, Justice Institute of British Columbia

• CBT Core Skills for Effective Therapy Certificate

• The Deeper Dimension in CBT: Getting at the Root Causes

• Trauma-Informed Hypnotherapy Level 1: Foundational Skills (25 hours)

• Power of Awareness Training with Tara Brach (ongoing)

• Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism for Bodies of Culture (8 hours)

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Teacher Training Intensive, Level 1, Centre for Mindfulness Studies

• Accelerated Dynamic Psychotherapy Immersion (32 hours)

• Ecotherapy Certificate Training, Earthbody Institute

• Yoga Nidra Training (20 hours), Soma Yoga Institute

• 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training, Soma Yoga Institute

• Hormone Readiness Assessment Training, J. Matsui De Roo

• Foundations Certificate Training, Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy

Outside of therapy, you might find me devouring science fiction novels, dancing, writing blogs and poetry, spending time with family, or filling my pockets with rocks from the ocean.

I believe you already hold wisdom, strength, and the capacity to thrive. Therapy is a place to reconnect with what has always been there. Together, we work toward greater clarity, self-trust, and a quieter sense of inner peace that can accompany you into daily life.