My Approach
My Guiding Principles
Humility –
Grounding myself in humbleness allows you the agency and space to teach me about your intersecting parts and how you navigate and experience your world.
My Clients are the Experts –
I honour that your experience of your world is different and unique. My lived experience as a queer woman of colour, may help me relate to some of the struggles similar to these intersecting social identities, yet this does not mean I know nor assume to understand your experiences.
Trauma Informed Care –
All through our journey, I will take into account the impacts of trauma – lived or passed down (multigenerational trauma) to cultivate a space for rebuilding safety, feeling empowered, and processing towards healing.
Anti-Oppressive Framework –
No matter the therapeutic approach used, I will ensure my approach takes into consideration and acknowledges the ways systematic oppression plays a part in disempowerment, marginalization, and trauma.
Individualized & Optimized Approach
My integrative approach is individualized for each client; increasing flexibility and avoiding narrow therapeutic views. Each approach takes into consideration what doesn't work well for you, learning styles, and focusing on your strengths -you do have them! My approaches are informed by the following therapeutic orientations:
Affirmative Therapy
- therapy that affirms, validates, and advocates for sexual minorities and gender diverse folk.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- the goal of this therapy is to achieve an inner balance between the Self and other parts of you that may be getting in the way of balance.
Narrative Approach
- focusing on and making meaning of your stories that have played a part in you becoming you.
Neurologically Informed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (nCBT)
- this therapy uses most of the basic principles and techniques of CBT while adding a focus on neurological evidence and processes.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- therapy that uses mindfulness to "hold" and accept experiences.
Areas of Focus
Therapeutic support covers a wide-scope of diverse areas of focus. These include but are not limited to:
Academic
Anxiety
Attachment
Body Image
Bullying
Communication
Control
Cross Cultural
Depression
Distress Tolerance
Emotion Regulation Grief & Loss
Guilt
Identity
LGBTQ+
Perfectionism
Relationship
Self-Esteem
Shame
Sexuality
Systemic Oppression
Trauma
Trust
Vulnerability
Worry