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A Little About Me

I’m a Registered Social Worker and Registered Clinical Counsellor with over 15 years of experience supporting youth and adults with mental health, trauma, emotional regulation, and substance use concerns.

Much of my career has been spent working in community mental health and substance use services, including inpatient, outpatient, and community-based settings. Working within collaborative, multidisciplinary teams has given me extensive experience with the complexity of mental health and substance use, including concerns that don’t always fit neatly into one diagnosis or approach.

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My Approach to Therapy

I’m interested in understanding not only what brought you to therapy, but what may be happening beneath the surface — the experiences, patterns, relationships, and ways of coping that have shaped how you relate to yourself and the world around you.

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I see therapy as a collaborative process. You bring your knowledge of yourself, your experiences, and what matters to you; I bring my clinical experience, knowledge, and evidence-based approaches to help us understand what’s happening and identify what may be most helpful. Depending on what you need, our work might involve developing practical skills, changing patterns that are keeping you stuck, processing past experiences, or finding new ways of relating to yourself and others.

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I also value authenticity and humour in therapy. The work can be difficult without every moment needing to feel heavy or clinical. I believe there should be room for genuine connection and humour along the way.

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Outside the Therapy Room

I moved to Squamish eight years ago, largely to make the outdoors a bigger part of everyday life. Outside of work, I’m drawn to both being active and slowing down in nature — getting into the mountains, disconnecting for a while, alpine lake dips, searching for natural hot springs, and spending time with my favourite people and my senior pup, Cooper.