I believe that the quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. That includes the relationship you have with yourself. My work is rooted in helping you build connections, inward and outward, that reflect your real values and desires. I work to understand the unique world that each of my client's inhabits so that I can support them in ways that are relevant and meaningful. I am queer and trans-affirming, sex and kink positive, and take a harm reduction approach.

As a human, I want to help in building a world that is ever more just and healthy for all. I've spent many years organizing around issues of social, economic, and racial justice, and this helps me connect our individual struggles with larger social systems. Healing ourselves means healing the world around us. I see this work as political.

As a result of my own lived experience of mental health struggles, alienation, and disconnection—from both self and others—I know how scary it can feel to reach out and ask for help. If you decide to reach out, you can expect a kind, timely, and compassionate response.

I don't want financial barriers to prevent you from working with me if you think we'd be a good fit. If needed, please reach out to ask about sliding scale options.

Many extended health benefit plans cover psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist. Coverage varies by provider and plan, so I'd recommend checking directly with your insurer. I do not offer direct billing to insurance. You will receive a receipt for each session that you can submit for reimbursement, as applicable.

My formal education includes a master's degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto, a Certificate in Psychology from the Toronto Metropolitan University, and completion of specialized training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and the Gottman therapy method. I engage in on-going professional development focused on couples, addictions, trauma, their intersections, and much more. In what feels like a previous life, I have also earned an undergraduate degree in urban studies and a master's degree in international development.

Before entering private practice, I worked in community mental health, supporting clients with significant trauma, addictions, mental illness, and relational ruptures as an overdose response and community health worker at multiple supervised consumption sites. Through this (and community organizing) work I have learned how to be with people amidst intense suffering, without needing to rush them along in their process.

I bring this combination of clinical education and experience building connection across significant difference to every session. I relentlessly seek to understand the good—or at least understandable—reasons people do the things they do, even when those decisions have damaging consequences (to self or other). Only when those parts of us feel understood can we feel safe or hopeful enough to make more values-aligned choices.

I personally know how arduous this shift can be, and the life-long work it requires to make sustainable. I have had to learn how to put down overachievement as a substitute for genuine self-esteem and to soften the harshest edges of a patriarchal masculinity to truly experience intimacy. I use this experience to walk humbly alongside, not ahead of, clients as they move towards their own goals and transformation.