Credentials, Training, and Professional Experience

Learn about the person I am and am becoming- she who is inside the therapist- here.

I approach therapy from a place of curiosity to work with individuals, intimate partners, and families through relational and systemic lens. This means that I am always considering the various contexts you have been situated in have shaped various aspects of your life, including your mental wellbeing and relationships. To do this, I upload an intersectional, decolonizing, anti-oppressive (i.e., anti-racist, anti-queer/bi/homo/transphobic, anti-sexist, anti-ableist, anti-fatphobic, anti-capitalist, etc), & trauma-informed lens.  

Clinical experience:

• 3 years of experience providing counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, and families ranging in ages in educational/community and private practice settings.
•  Some Areas of Focus: BIPOC Identities and Experiences, Intergenerational Trauma, Interracial/Intercultural Relationships, LGBTQ2IA+, Consensual Non-Monogamy, Identity Exploration and Acceptance, Conflict, Relationship Ambivalence, Value Conflicts, Intimacy, Parenting, Attachment and Emotions, Spirituality, Intersectionality and Power Dynamics, Major Life Transitions, Substance Use

Education:

Graduated with a Masters in Science in Couple and Family Therapy, University of Guelph (2022) - This included 500 hours of direct experience with clients in the context of individual, couple, and family therapy with specific learning and training in the following across two years: 

• Postmodernism (social constructionism and deconstruction*)
• Systemic Theories and Therapies
• Collaborative/Dialogic Therapy (Humanistic/Client-centred based)
• Solution Focused Therapy 
• Narrative Therapy*
• Emotion(ally) Focused Therapy (Experiential and Attachment based)
• Intensive Sex Therapy Training Course

Research Experience: 

As a Graduate Research Assistant and Graduate Service Assistant, respectively. To better understand

• how parental employment is impacted by access to services for children with disabilities and is influenced by different aspects and intersections of identities (led by Dr. Tricia Van Rhijn and Dr. Donna Lero)
• lived experiences and concerns of BIPOC graduate students, and their subsequent expectations for supports in higher education (in collaboration with Natalie Stravens and Samantha Blostein)

Learn more about my research experience here. 

Undergraduate Education: 

Graduated with a Bachelor in Applied Science in Child Youth and Family Studies with a Minor in Psychology, University of Guelph