Cancellation Policy

I require at least 24 hours (preferably 48 hours or more) to cancel or change an appointment. Please respect this policy so that someone else can benefit from the appointment time if you can’t make it. Cancellations made less than 24 hours before an appointment will be billed at 50% of my fee. No shows will be billed 100% of my fee for the time allotted.

Waitlist

Please note that I am not currently accepting new clients and my waitlist is closed. Please check back in the spring/ summer 2025. To find a psychologist, try searching the Ottawa Academy of Psychology’s online directory: https://ottawa-psychologists.org/online-directory/.

About me

I am a registered psychologist who is passionate about supporting people to rewire their brains and nervous systems to experience optimal well-being. I work with children, adolescents, and adults experiencing stress, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, difficulties with emotion regulation, life transitions, and recovery from sports injury and concussion.

I work collaboratively with my people to increase their felt sense of safety, reduce reactivity, increase mindful awareness, transform emotional experience, and cultivate safe, secure relationships to loved ones. This work often expands into new ways of being to optimize clients’ performance and flow – at home, work, in relationships, as parents, or in sport.

My Approach:

I believe in a holistic approach to health. I use an integrative approach, grounded in neuroscience, that recognizes the wisdom and healing orientation of our brains and bodies when in the supportive presence of an attuned, non-judgmental other.

I have in-depth knowledge and training in the following evidence-based approaches: Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT, Phase 1) Brainspotting Therapy (Phase 1, 2, 3, & 4; Master Class; Expansion; Brainspotting & Integrative Sport Medicine; Digging Roots model for developmental trauma; Addictions & Unwanted Behaviours; Intensive with Dr. Roby Abeles), Polyvagal Theory & Therapy Emotion-Focused Therapy (Levels 1 & 2) Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) Circle of Security Parenting (COS-P) Attachment, Regulation, Competency (ARC) framework for complex trauma, Structural Model of Dissociation, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness meditation

Context:

I completed my Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa in 2016. I have worked extensively with complex developmental trauma and dissociation. I regularly provide supervision and consultation to psychology trainees, clinicians, and community agencies.

I acknowledge that I live and work in Ottawa, on the unceded, unsurrendered Territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation whose presence here reaches back to time immemorial. In my life’s work, I am committed to contributing to the healing and decolonizing journey we all share together.

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