About Me
You don't have to leave part of
yourself at the door
I came to this work with more than a counselling degree. I’m late-diagnosed AuDHD, a mom to neurodivergent kids, a daughter who has experienced the loss of her mother, and a former paramedic. I was also raised by an immigrant parent, which shaped how I understand resilience, belonging, identity, and the different ways families learn to survive and care for one another.
Those experiences don’t mean I know exactly what your experience feels like — but they do shape the way I show up. I know what it’s like to understand yourself differently once you finally have language for your experience, to navigate systems that weren’t necessarily built with you in mind, and to carry both strength and struggle at the same time.
I bring that perspective into counselling alongside my clinical training: with curiosity, humour, compassion, and a healthy willingness to question whether the problem is really the person — or whether the environment is asking too much of them.
What It’s Like to Work With Me
My approach is collaborative, flexible, and neurodivergent-affirming. I draw from ACT, mindfulness, somatic strategies, nervous-system education, and other evidence-informed approaches, while adapting sessions to the person in front of me.
Sometimes counselling looks like talking things through. Other times, it might mean playing a game, using a fidget, moving around, drawing, or finding practical ways to make something feel more manageable.
Humour is welcome. Questions are welcome. So is saying, “I don’t know.”
I’m interested in helping people feel more understood — not more managed.
Why I Do This Work
I’m drawn to this work because I know how powerful it can be to finally have an explanation for why certain things feel harder than they seem to for everyone else.
Too often, young people are told they’re too sensitive, not trying hard enough, overreacting, unmotivated, or simply need to “do better,” when there may be much more going on underneath. I want counselling to be a place where we get curious about the why instead of focusing only on the behaviour.
Helping someone understand themselves differently — sometimes with more compassion and a lot less shame — is one of the things I value most about this work.
