Trauma-Focused, Evidence-Informed Therapy
Support for trauma, complex PTSD, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, depression, chronic stress, and long-standing emotional or relational patterns.
A Steady, Integrative Approach
Therapy is paced, grounded, and attuned to your nervous system.
I draw from trauma-focused psychotherapy, parts-informed work, relational and psychodynamic approaches, nervous-system understanding, and DBT-based skills within an evidence-informed framework.
Covered by Most Benefit Plans
COVERED BY MOST EMPLOYEE BENEFITS PROGRAMS
Submit your receipt to your employee benefits for their provisional reimbursement or claim the services on your income tax.
We accept VISA, Mastercard, and Debit.
Receipts provided for insurance and income-tax claims.
Services offered by a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW).
A Steady Space for Emotional Healing
Support during emotionally demanding seasons of life, including stress, burnout, relationship strain, and trauma.
When you’ve been carrying years of stress, emotional intensity, or trauma, finding steadiness can feel difficult. Therapy here is paced, relational, and grounded in respect for your nervous system and your history.
Many people come without a clear diagnosis, only a sense that things feel overwhelming, unpredictable, or too heavy to manage alone.
When Life Has Asked Too Much Of You
Some people come because something specific has happened — a relationship rupture, a period of burnout, a loss, or a season of emotional overwhelm. Others arrive with a quieter sense that they’ve been holding too much for too long.
If any of this resonates, you’re not alone. Many people I work with feel this way long before they know what to call it.
It can look like:
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Carrying a lot on the inside while appearing “strong” on the outside
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Feeling emotions in big waves or feeling nothing at all
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Wanting closeness but fearing hurt, misunderstanding, or abandonment
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Struggling to trust yourself or know who you are beneath survival mode
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Feeling tired from holding it together
If this feels familiar, you’re not broken. You adapted.These responses are signs of a nervous system working hard to keep you safe, even when you are safe.
It’s Okay to Want More Than Just “Getting Through the Day”
It’s not selfish to want steadiness, clarity, and deeper connection. It’s human.
Our work together might:
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explore how your nervous system responds to stress, emotional intensity, burnout, or past experiences
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work gently with parts of you that learned to cope, protect, or hold things together during difficult periods
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process emotions you’ve carried through demanding seasons of life, relationships, or earlier experiences
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make meaning through narrative work, helping you understand how your story has shaped the present
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explore long-standing relational patterns, including closeness, conflict, trust, or emotional distance
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integrate practical skills, including DBT-informed tools, when support and stabilization are helpful
Healing is Layered
People seek therapy for many reasons: overwhelm, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, emotional intensity, or patterns they can’t fully explain. Whether or not you identify with the word trauma, most people have been navigating their inner world long before seeking support.
Therapy doesn’t assume you’re starting from scratch.
We begin wherever you are. You may be looking for steadiness, making sense of long-standing patterns, or exploring deeper emotional experiences. Healing often touches all three layers at once.
Layer One: Safety & Stabilization
We strengthen what already helps you feel steady.
This may include grounding, nervous-system awareness, and DBT-informed skills to create more room when emotions feel overwhelming.
You may already be doing some of this; we build on it.
Layer Two: Processing & Integration
As steadiness grows, we explore what your system carries stress, anxiety, old emotions, protective patterns, younger parts, or experiences shaping how you relate to yourself and others.
This may involve emotional processing, parts-informed work, relational or psychodynamic exploration, and narrative understanding. We move gently, at your pace.
Layer Three: Integration & Forward Growth
With more clarity and integration, we focus on strengthening identity, deepening relationships, expanding emotional capacity, and reconnecting with meaning, values, and self-trust.
Growth often appears gradually; and can show up as more space, ease, and grounding.
Healing Is Not Linear
You may move between layers or revisit earlier work. There is no timeline. I meet you wherever you are, whether you’re seeking support for trauma, emotional overwhelm, anxiety, depression, or long-standing patterns.
There is room for your whole story here.
Serving adults and teens (16+) navigating trauma, emotional sensitivity, and relationship difficulties.
Online across Ontario, and in person in Waterloo.
Questions?
Do you have questions, want to schedule an appointment, or need more information?
Location
156 King St. S. (Kuntz Lane)
Waterloo ON N2J 1P6
T: 519-635-1913