Be the Guardian of Your Heart

I work with various modalities, and approaches, utilizing a holistic perspective and unique customization with each client.

My Areas of Expertise Include

  • Insecure (anxious. avoidant) attachment

  • Lack of self-esteem and self-confidence

  • Recovering from narcissistic abuse

  • Divorce, heartbreak, and relationship endings

  • Mid-life awakenings, life transitions

  • Existential and “spiritual emergencies”

  • Psychedelic preparation and integration

  • Grief, loss, death and dying

Psychedelic Preparation and Integration

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy offers new hope for healing and personal transformation to those experiencing significant mental health challenges.

It is important to acknowledge psychedelic psychotherapy is not appropriate for everyone and a great deal of support before and after an expanded consciousness experience is necessary for facilitating safe, ethical, and effective results.

Making meaning and sense of one's psychedelic experience and making practical, applicable changes to positively support personal growth is a critical part of the therapeutic process.

Without safety and integration, these experiences can feel fleeting and lose their potency in what needs and is ready to change within our subconscious material.

My goal is to help clients not only make personal meaning of their experience but also to find tangible ways to make the necessary changes in day-to-day growth and evolve into the person they desire to become.

My preparation and integration training and experience include ketamine, psilocybin and MDMA.

Self Worth, Attachment Trauma and Mid-Life Transitions

What a beautiful gift to witness a woman standing in, embodying, and believing in herself. Many women who have experienced loss, neglect, emotional disconnection, betrayal, abandonment, and/or disconnection in early life with their caregivers, which deeply affected their ability to embrace, love, and accept themselves as they are.

In addition, we live in a culture that still suppresses women’s voices and discourages women from safely holding their power.

Maiden to Mature Feminine

Witnessing a woman transition from her “maiden” to “mature feminine” or “mother” archetype is a rite of passage, an initiation that we rarely celebrate in Western culture.

Without the need for validation from the outside world, we can become the guardians of our safety and live a more authentic life, guided by inner confidence, truth, and power.

Often in mid-life, we are faced with the reality of how we have spent the first half of our life and and starting to deeply consider how we want to live our second half. Mid-life is a powerful opportunity for a woman to re-examine and enter into a new relationship with her identity, her life path, and her purpose.

Individual and Couples

I teach individuals and couples to develop a relationship with their body/nervous system, bridging the gap between mind and heart. When we are grounded in our bodies and connected to our true selves, we have an opportunity to feel more at peace and express our authentic truth.

Attachment (Relational) Trauma & Relationships

Human beings are born with an innate need, to form a close emotional bond (attachment) with their primary caregivers.​ Our first "serious relationship" in life begins as an infant with our caregivers. This relationship provides us with a blueprint for the way we view ourselves, the world, and relationships.

Our early life attachment experiences inform us about trust, autonomy, and safety. If our attachment bonds have been disrupted, severed, challenged, or inconsistent, as adults we might struggle with trust issues, fear of abandonment, or intimacy and closeness.

Psychotherapy and counseling offer an opportunity to explore and repair painful attachment wounding and relational injuries by helping clients reparent younger parts in the context of a safe, therapeutic relationship.

Recovering from Narcissistic Abuse

Women who have experienced early childhood trauma, physical, sexual and, or emotional abuse, grief, and loss are at higher risk of being in relationships with people who are abusive, narcissistic, and controlling.

The recovery process after the ending of a narcissistic relationship can be a strenuous, lengthy endeavor. The effects of dealing with a narcissist range from low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and even suicidal ideation.

The abuse pattern is deeply ingrained in the cognition (psyche and the unconscious), feelings (the body and neurobiology), and behaviors (reaction, response, and action) This pattern can be passed genetically, through one’s DNA and lineage and can be changed with the appropriate interventions.

It is essential to the take to pause and refrain from dating and/or pursuing romantic relationships while in the recovery phase of healing from narcissistic abuse. It is a prolonged and painful process to retrieve and recall younger wounded parts of yourself that were likely attracted to this kind of person, behavior, and pattern.

Taking the time and space to nurture your younger self; re-mother, and reparent yourself is critical to recover and heal from this kind of pattern and prevent or reduce the likelihood of experiencing this kind of interaction again,

Grief, Loss, and Unresolved, Complicated Grief

When we have lost a loved one, ambiguously or literally to death, the experience within can be devastatingly painful.

Grief is a dance of amplified emotional landscapes. We might experience deep sadness, depression, anxiety, rage, denial, acceptance, and even joy.  
In our work together, we create safety and a solid foundation for your grief to be contained, held, expressed, and healed, without limits, expectations, or demands, while helping you to gently move forward each day. 

Ambiguous Loss

Ambiguous loss can look like a divorce, a breakup/relationship ending, a loved one being psychologically absent, absence of a parent (emotionally, physically, and/or psychologically due to mental illness, addiction, an accident/health condition, excessive work, etc., loss of physical contact with friends and family due to immigration, moving, life transitions.

Ambiguous loss can leave one feeling confused, lost, stuck, and unable to move forward with life. It may leave one re-experiencing grief and loss in the present both with self and relationships that recreate contexts that illicit the original loss.

Healing from ambiguous loss asks that we rediscover hidden parts of ourselves that may have gone into hiding when we experienced loss and find ways to connect, embrace, and nurture these wounded aspects.

The Sacred Value of Therapy

​I consider therapy a deeply sacred opportunity and safe space to reflect, explore, and be curious about the internal process that may keep you stuck or unfulfilled with what you desire in life. The therapy space is a place to self-study, self-examine, and self-actualize.

It is a time to examine behavioral patterns, limiting beliefs, and neurobiological patterns that hold you back from making transformational changes to move closer to the life you desire and the person you want to be.

Therapy is an opportunity to inquire with gentle, loving, kindness, about what is not working and what needs to change within you and your life.

To feel the full depth of life and experience what you came here for, one must be willing to look deep within their heart.

Together, we go on a pilgrimage to help you reclaim the parts of you waiting to be loved by you to feel your full human wholeness,

  • Each Individual 50-minute session is $265 US/$225 CAD.

    Each Couples 50-minute session is $300 US/$265 CAD.

    KAP sessions require a minimum of 2 hours, $600 and minimum of 3 preparation and 3 integration sessions, $275 per 50-minute session.

    We do not accept insurance.

    Services may be covered in full or in part by your health insurance or employee benefit plan. We can provide you with a super bill for reimbursement by your insurance carrier. Please check your coverage carefully by asking the following questions:

    Do I have mental health insurance benefits?

    What is my deductible and has it been met?

    How many sessions per year does my health insurance cover?

    What is the coverage amount per therapy session?

    Is approval required from my primary care physician?

  • If you do not show up for your scheduled therapy appointment, and you have not notified me (via email, phone call or voicemail) at least 48 hours in advance, you will be required to pay the full cost of the session.

  • All sessions, excluding ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) sessions, are held via video appointment. You can attend sessions from the comfort of your own home or private space.

    I also offer appointments by phone.

    KAP sessions are held at my in private home office space and require a minimum of 2 hours.