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My Journey to This Work

Becoming a counsellor was not something I planned, it was a calling shaped by my own experiences and a deep desire to help others find their way through pain I understood intimately. I have spent over 20 years living and working alongside Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island. My own family includes Indigenous heritage, and this work is not something I do from a distance. It is shaped by deep relational accountability to the communities, the Elders, and the individuals who have trusted me with their stories.

I came to this work through my own healing journey through displacement, grief, and the long road back to myself. That lived experience is not separate from my clinical practice. It is at the heart of it.

My Approach to Healing

I believe healing is not about fixing what is broken. It's about returning to wholeness; body, mind, spirit, and relationship.

My practice is grounded in Dr. Albert Marshall's Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk) framework, which holds Indigenous knowledge and Western clinical approaches together; each strengthening the other rather than one replacing the other. This way of seeing shapes how I work with every client, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike, bringing depth, relationship, and cultural humility into the room alongside evidence-based care.

I use trauma-informed, body-aware, and EMDR-based approaches that work with the whole person, not just the presenting symptom. Narrative therapy is often at the heart of this work; the belief that you are not your problem, and that the stories we carry about ourselves can be gently re-authored and re-understood with a new perspective. Healing is relational, unhurried, and shaped by what each person in front of me actually needs.

What I Help With

Every person who comes to do this work carries something different, anxiety that won't quiet, depression that clouds the days, or the kind of emotional overwhelm that makes it hard to feel anything clearly at all. For many, the roots go deeper: childhood trauma, patterns passed down through generations, or the grief and disconnection carried from residential school legacy. Others are navigating substance use alongside mental health struggles, or find themselves caught in gambling harm or other addictive behaviours that once offered relief and now feel like their own kind of weight.

Sometimes what brings someone in isn't a single event but an accumulation, relationship strain and disconnection, burnout that's hollowed out a sense of purpose at work, or chronic pain and somatic symptoms the body has been holding onto long after words failed. And often, it's grief itself, the loss of a person, a role, a version of life that used to make sense, that brings someone through the door during a major transition.

Whatever brings you here, none of it needs to be sorted or explained perfectly before we begin. We'll work through it together, at your pace.

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