Our Work Together
Working together, we'll create a safe and supportive space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. I work from a companioning approach to grief and loss, which means I am here to help you navigate your way through a very personal and transformative experience of loss, learn to soften intense responses, and tolerate the emotional and sensational discomfort of grief. Read more below about what our work together could look like.
Individual Counselling and Psychotherapy
We'll work one-on-one to explore the challenges you're experiencing, and I'll tailor an approach to healing that benefits and feels right for you.
Cope with Grief and Loss
Complicated grief and loss can be so powerful it becomes all consuming. This state of being can disrupt our ability to think, feel, and communicate clearly, cause us to withdraw from the people and things we once experienced joy with, and cause our physical self to shut down from the weight of despair. We'll find strategies to help you cope with grief.
Parenting Support
Chronic stress and trauma can impact communication and engagement between parents. In these sessions, we'll explore parenting styles, approaches, differences and alignments.
Make New Connections
Connection with friends, family, activities and interests, along with other health practitioners are vitally important to your health and well-being. We'll work together to build a strong self-care network.
Respond Differently
Our work together will help you learn to respond instead of react, as we work on changing unhelpful narratives and building emotional regulation skills.
Manage Thoughts and Feelings
We'll work on ways to help stop intrusive thoughts, soften overwhelming feelings, and create a strong sense of safety in self and in the world.
Process Trauma
Rooted in attachment, neuroscience, affect regulation, embodiment research and the wisdom of the natural world, we'll take the necessary time to work through painful lived experiences, images, flashbacks, nightmares, and any other distressing memory or sensation.
Learn to Tolerate Stress and Discomfort
Using both cognitive (CBT) and somatic-centred practices, our work together will help you learn to tolerate discomfort and distress.
Relationship Work
Occasionally it can be beneficial to do couple's work, and in this context, we work together to improve communication and connection.
Establish Safety in Self and In the World
Often after a traumatic experience, we lose a sense of safety within ourselves, and the whole world can feel unsafe. Our work together will help turn down the volume on those sensations and perceptions of the world.
