Individual Counselling

I provide compassionate, faith-informed counselling for adults and youth who may be navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, neurodiversity, relationship challenges, emotional overwhelm, identity concerns, or difficult seasons of life.

My approach is relational, trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming, and sensitive to the ways our nervous system, sensory experiences, relationships, past experiences, and beliefs can shape how we respond to the world around us.

For clients who desire Christian counselling, faith can be intentionally woven into the therapeutic process through Scripture, prayer, biblical reflection, lament, identity work, and exploration of our relationship with God. Faith is never intended to replace sound clinical care; rather, it can become an integrated part of the healing process when this is meaningful to the client.

My clinical approach draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), behavioural principles, nervous-system and sensory-informed strategies, trauma-informed practice, attachment perspectives, and other evidence-informed approaches.

I believe counselling should help us understand not simply what we are doing, but what may be happening underneath our responses—and how we can begin creating healthier patterns with compassion, intention, and hope.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Counselling

A significant part of my professional career has been dedicated to supporting individuals with Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, sensory differences, emotional regulation challenges, and related mental-health concerns.

I have worked extensively with neurodivergent children, youth, adults, and families and understand that neurodiversity can influence far more than attention or behaviour. It can affect relationships, communication, sensory regulation, identity, emotional regulation, parenting, work, marriage, burnout, masking, and a person’s understanding of themselves.

My goal is not to teach neurodivergent clients to become more “typical.” Instead, counselling focuses on understanding the individual, identifying strengths and needs, developing practical strategies, reducing shame, and creating ways of living that support greater regulation, authenticity, connection, and wellbeing.

For Christian neurodivergent clients, we can also explore faith and identity in ways that honour both their relationship with God and the way they were uniquely created.

Couples & Family Counselling

Relationships often bring our deepest patterns to the surface.

In couples and family counselling, I help clients explore communication patterns, emotional regulation, attachment, conflict, family-of-origin experiences, parenting differences, neurodiversity, unresolved hurts, boundaries, and generational patterns that may be affecting their relationships today.

For Christian couples and families who request it, counselling can also explore biblical perspectives on marriage, commitment, grace, forgiveness, healthy boundaries, reconciliation, responsibility, and relational repair.

My goal is not simply to help couples stop arguing. It is to help them better understand the story each person brings into the relationship and develop healthier ways of responding to one another.

Sometimes two people can experience the same marriage very differently. Learning to understand those two stories can become an important part of building a healthier shared one.

Parenting & Family Support

Parents often come to counselling carrying both love for their children and tremendous pressure to “get it right.”

I work with parents who are navigating Autism, ADHD, behavioural challenges, sensory needs, emotional dysregulation, anxiety, family stress, and complex parenting situations.

My background in child development, behavioural intervention, autism services, counselling, and parent education allows us to look beyond behaviour and ask:

What is this child communicating? What does their nervous system need? What skills are still developing? And what support does this family need in order to function well together?

For parents who wish to incorporate their Christian faith, we can also explore how grace, wisdom, boundaries, repair, and biblical values can shape parenting without using shame as a tool for change.

Clinical Supervision

In addition to counselling, I am passionate about teaching, training, mentoring, and supporting other counsellors and providing training specific to the intersection of faith and mental health.

As a Registered Counselling Supervisor, I provide individual and group clinical supervision, including supervision for clinicians who are looking for a faith-based option.

Supervision may include case conceptualization, ethical decision-making, trauma-informed practice, neurodiversity, nervous-system regulation, complex cases, boundaries, documentation, therapist development, and the thoughtful integration of Christian faith into clinical practice.

I also have a particular interest in supporting neurodivergent therapists who may be looking for supervision that understands both their clinical work and their own experience of practicing as a neurodivergent professional.

I believe strong clinicians are developed not simply by learning more techniques, but by becoming increasingly thoughtful about who they are in the counselling room, how they conceptualize their clients, and how their own experiences may influence the therapeutic relationship.

Background

I hold a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and have spent many years working in counselling, psychology, autism intervention, assessment, behavioural services, clinical supervision, program development, and leadership.

My professional journey has included working in the field of autism, conducting childhood assessments and consultation, providing counselling to children, youth, adults, couples, and families, and serving for five years as a Director of an Autism Intervention Program, where I supervised a Mental Health and Wellness Team.

My experience has given me the opportunity to work alongside individuals and families through many different seasons of life—from childhood developmental concerns and parenting challenges to adult mental health, relationships, trauma, neurodivergence, and major life transitions.

Over the years, my Christian faith has also become increasingly important to the way I understand counselling and healing.

I believe good Christian counselling does not require us to choose between faith and clinical knowledge. We can honour Scripture while also understanding trauma, attachment, neurodiversity, sensory processing, the nervous system, relationships, and human development.

For me, counselling is a place where those worlds can meet and complement each other, just as God created us.

Healing can involve understanding our story, caring for our nervous system, challenging beliefs that no longer serve us, repairing relationships, learning healthier patterns, grieving what has been lost, and discovering more fully who God created us to be.

My hope is to provide a counselling space characterized by compassion, curiosity, safety, truth, and grace—a place where clients do not have to hide either their struggles or their faith in order to receive meaningful clinical support.