Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, or isolated?
Change is possible.
Experienced therapist offering services in person in Vancouver and online in B.C.
From the outside you seem accomplished and successful, but on the inside you’re struggling.
You don’t feel like yourself.
You may be looking for help with a crisis, or seeking to understand longer-term patterns or challenges.
Sometimes we need help with the work of being human. Whether you are seeking to heal past hurts, overcome current challenges, or work towards future growth and change, I can help you reach your goals.
Who I work with:
Most of my clients are professionals, creatives, or students over 18, especially graduate students. The people I work with tend to be high-functioning, and come to me either because something’s not right, or because they want more fulfillment and stability in their lives.
Issues I work with include:
anxiety
depression
PTSD and trauma
self-esteem
relationship problems
stress management
perfectionism, procrastination, and impostor syndrome
writer’s block
grief and loss
career concerns
I’m a seasoned counsellor with 10 years experience, including 7 years at a major university counselling centre, focusing on graduate students. Before being a therapist, I worked in academia as an English professor.
I value openness, compassion, flexibility, creativity, thoughtfulness, and social justice, and these values are central to the way I approach therapy. Clients often describe me as empathic, perceptive, and authentic.
My first goal is to understand what it feels like to be you. I’m a skilled and highly trained listener who will attend to your story with empathy, acuity, and compassionate curiosity. I describe my role as therapist as a mirror in which you can see yourself clearly. With this clarity you will be able to make choices that are right for you.
About me:
What you can expect:
I will focus on you as a whole person—not just your symptoms or problems. I will join with you to explore your experience, including parts of yourself that you may have disavowed or not be conscious of. As Carl Rogers put it, “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Together, we can find the path to feeling like yourself again. Therapy can help you:
change long-term habits and patterns
have more confidence in your decisions, goals and values
be more able to tolerate and accept difficult emotions
be more able to ask for what you need and set boundaries.
“Warm, eager, living life—to be rooted in life—to learn, to desire to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less.”
—Katherine Mansfield, Journal
Discover more about how I can help you:
I offer sessions in person or virtually through a secure telehealth platform. My office is 620-1285 West Broadway, at the corner of Birch and Broadway, with underground parking, street parking and easy access to buses .