I work with people who are navigating questions of belonging, identity, family relationships, and life transitions. Many of the clients I support are curious about how culture, attachment, and early relational patterns continue to shape their present lives. I offer a warm, reflective space to explore these dynamics with curiosity and care, supporting deeper understanding, integration, and meaningful change.

As the child of a Canadian Foreign Service officer, I grew up moving across countries and continents every few years. That rhythm sparked lifelong questions about belonging, culture, self-expression, and how to stay connected without losing my own identity. Feeling different from other family members sometimes brought guilt and a desire to bridge individual and collective ways of being. My deepest culture shock arrived not abroad but when I returned to Canada.

In Guguletu, a township of Cape Town, I ran a daily nutrition program for children living with AIDS and coached a team of 17-year-old boys in soccer—we often shooed goats off the field before practice. Days in a bustling township contrasted with nights on an isolated vineyard seven kilometres from the nearest neighbours. After two years, I came back to Canada overwhelmed and unmoored; therapy helped me make sense of that time and regain balance and agency.

Marriage (22 years) and raising two teenage daughters opened a new chapter of love and responsibility. Staying in one place felt strange at first and invited deeper reflection on meaning and identity.

I volunteer with the Sashbear Foundation’s Family Connections program, a 12-week, DBT-informed group that supports parents and caregivers of loved ones who experience intense emotions. We build skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, helping families reconnect and solve problems collaboratively.

I am currently a Master’s student at Yorkville University and am completing my practicum at Into the Deep Therapy, while being supervised by Ivana Kolakovic, RP. These experiences shape my therapeutic stance: warm, curious, and attuned to the ways culture, family, and place inform who we are becoming.