I believe in respecting my clients as whole individuals that are resourceful and creative. My aim is to offer attentive care and collaboratively journey with you on a personal exploration, to potentially become increasingly conscious about yourself, your inner world and relationships, encouraging emotional balance, relational well-being, and behavioural change. I draw on my graduate and post-graduate training to work from various mainstream psychological and empirically validated approaches including emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioural, and narrative perspectives integrating, where beneficial and desired, personal concepts of spirituality and/or religious belief.
Mission
To provide a safe, compassionate space for clients to explore their feelings, thoughts and beliefs about presenting life situations/transitions.
To provide quality psychotherapy services to individuals and couples in the National Capital Region experiencing emotional distress or losses, impacting their psychological, emotional or spiritual health.
To collaboratively develop and work towards personal goals that encourage emotional health and well-being.
Values
The following guiding principles help measure the quality of service offered:
To contribute positively towards a person`s emotional health concerns through support, psychotherapy and reflection.
Provide an accessible and safe environment for clients to share their concerns.
Apply the highest standards of ethical professionalism and therapeutic excellence through accreditation, on-going training and consultation.
Develop and work with community partners in care.
Recognize the uniqueness of each and every individual by listening and responding to your needs.
Acknowledge the unknown, and the limits of human understanding together.
Embrace diversity and acknowledge the challenges faced by minority groups
Privacy Policy
Privacy of personal information is an important principle to my services. Like most counselling services, you will be asked to review and sign my Privacy Policy, prior to initiating counselling services.
Coverage:
My services may be partially or fully covered under many private health insurance programs, extended health insurance benefits and workers’ compensation packages.
Education and Continuing Education:
I earned my Master’s degree from Saint Paul University in Ottawa and am a member in good standing with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and a full Clinical Fellow of the Ontario Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (OAMFT). In support of the profession of Psychotherapy as an ethical health profession, I ensure my continued competence as a psychotherapist by participating in study groups. I also attend relevant conferences and continuing education training opportunities, relevant to my work.