Grow through what you go through.
Individual Therapy • Couples Counselling • Clinical Supervision
Psychotherapy
for Individuals
& Couples in Ottawa
My approach extends to a broad range of clients seeking support and understanding. Upon establishing rapport and comfort, our journey together follows a structured process: defining the challenge, exploring, developing insight, taking action, committing, integrating, and concluding. You can anticipate a gradual, sustained improvement, moving beyond surface-level fixes.
Depth-oriented psychotherapy shaped by your lived wisdom,
guided by evidence-based practices.
Individual Therapy
Clients and Concerns Supported Here | For those (18+) navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, and recurring relationship patterns.
My approach is non-pathologizing and un-shaming, I view symptoms and struggles as emotionally coherent responses. Anxiety warns, depression shields, trauma teaches, but only if we pay attention. When ignored, these signals can shape your body, your relationships, and your daily life. Together, we listen for the unmet needs and old survival strategies beneath the struggle, so you can move beyond coping and into real change.
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Therapeutic Approach | Psychodynamic (past shapes present) + Relational (growth through our connection) + Experiential (try new ways in session)
Psychodynamic therapy explores the deeper forces and early experiences that shape how you feel and respond today. Experiential therapy focuses on what you’re feeling right now: how emotions show up in your body, your voice, your reactions. Both approaches help us understand not just why patterns formed, but how they continue to live inside you.
How the Process Works | Your sense of self was shaped in relationship, and it can grow in relationship too.
In our sessions, I aim to create a safe space to notice, reflect on, and gently shift how you relate to your emotions, to others, and to yourself. With curiosity, compassion, and accountability, we move beyond understanding patterns and with them in real time, creating space for steady, lasting change.
Couples
Counselling
Beyond "Us" | Couples Therapy With You In Mind
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Couples often get stuck in repeating cycles: pulling away, chasing, or shutting down. These patterns usually reflect unmet needs. Traditional couples therapy, including Emotionally Focused Therapy, focuses primarily on relational needs, aiming to restore connection through emotional closeness and security.
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This approach goes further. With Self-in-Relationship Psychotherapy, we look at both the relationship between you and the unique needs inside each partner. Safety and fulfillment are not the same for everyone, and understanding these differences is the first step toward a relationship where both partners feel seen, understood, and secure.
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Some people need to feel special or close. Others need to feel competent or have space. That is why we start with individual sessions, helping each partner clarify needs and patterns before coming together. This grounds your couples work in real self-understanding.
Striking a Balance | What You and Your Relationship Need
Self Needs
• Competence | feeling capable and good enough
• Significance | feeling seen and valued
Relational Needs
• Closeness | emotional connection
• Autonomy | being yourself while staying engaged relationally
When needs go unmet, automatic defenses like shutting down or chasing take over. SIRP helps you notice what is really happening, respond with intention, and build a relationship where both partners feel safe, seen, and truly connected.​​​
How It Works
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Begin Together:
​A joint consultation and couples session to explore relational patterns and where connection feels possible.​​
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Individual Sessions:
Space for each partner to build trust, explore triggers, and develop self-awareness.
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Return Together:
​​​​​​Joint sessions that integrate personal insights back into the relationship, creating room for new ways of connecting.​​
As a CRPO-approved Clinical Supervisor,
I provide supportive, reflective, and practical supervision and consultation for RPs and RP(Q)s.​
Clinical
Supervision
How I Approach Clinical Supervision |
An Integrative Approach
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Supervision aims to support your growth in confidence, skill, and professional identity while offering steady support along the way.
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Normative (Standards and Accountability): Supervision supports alignment with ethical and professional standards, CRPO requirements, and best practices to promote confidence in decision-making.
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Formative (Learning and Skill Development): A space to learn, practice, and reflect. We explore cases, interventions, and theory in ways that strengthen your clinical understanding.
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Restorative (Support and Resilience): Supervision offers a reflective, non-judgmental space to process the emotional impact of clinical work and to sustain resilience and self-awareness.
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Relational + Experiential Through a relational lens, we examine how presence, interventions, and patterns influence therapeutic process, integrating insights directly into clinical work.
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