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I provide In Person and Video Comprehensive Resource Model Counseling to adults, couples, teens and pre-teens. CRM has been shown to help with many issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, Complex PTSD, eating disorders, addictions, relationship issues, sexual orientation, serious mental health issues, dissociation, chronic pain, concussions, childhood abuse, relationship violence, relocation issues, sleep, anger and many other issues. I am adaptable to the style and needs of each individual client. I believe that behind your struggles is an astonishing ability to find hope, healing, strength, creativity, connection and fulfillment.

I am aware of how difficult, frightening, or embarrassing it can be to see a counselor. Most people have a fear of healing and the consequences of healing – as well as a fear of the counseling process itself – not wanting to talk, remember, or feel. I can help you with those obstacles and I have ways to help you, even if you don’t want to tell me what happened to you or what issue you want to work on. We can talk about “the problem.”

I have been a Social Worker for 32 years and have been doing individual and couple counseling for 19 years. I have learned and regularly use a wide variety of techniques.

I am aware of the link between current issues and past trauma, including how past traumatic events can affect mood, sleep, relationships as well as illness and pain within the body. I am LGBTQ positive. I am a yoga teacher and sensitive to the Spiritual as well as Psychological needs of my clients, including the needs of atheists and agnostics, and the need to leave that topic alone completely. I work well with people with any religious affiliation – including a religion you’ve made up on your own. I work well with people who are members of 12 step groups and with those who want a harm reduction approach. My Bachelor’s degree was in Biochemistry and I spent my first 12 years as a Social Worker with adults with Developmental Delays. So, I work well with people with very high and very low intelligence and anything in between. I was exposed to many different cultures as a child, teenager and young adult, and enjoy working with people from all ethnicities.

I am a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers and the OCSWSSW.

I am a Social Worker (MSW, RSW) and Relational Psychotherapist (Dip TIRP) who has worked
in the field of social services and mental health for over 20 years. I have worked in Transitional
housing for women and children fleeing abusive relationships, in homeless shelters for youth,
with youth in high risk situations at community mental health services offering long term
psychotherapy to youth and at the Pine River Institute, a therapeutic boarding school. I have
worked in private practice for 13 years serving adult individuals, couples, youth and families with
my main focus being around addressing trauma. I also offer clinical supervision, workshops for
professionals and intensives that combine yoga with psychotherapy work. I currently run a
small psychotherapy practice in Collingwood, Ontario where I work with 3 other excellent
therapists.

My interest in treating trauma clients led me to delve into Janina Fisher’s Trauma Informed
Stabilization Treatment model and I have completed all 4 levels of her training as well as
additional training with her. This model led me to study CRM which has positively and
profoundly changed in the way I work. I find that clients who commit to working with CRM find
their treatment more effective in that their lives change in subtle and overt ways that allow them
to have more freedom, choice and connection to their Self and Source.

I have been fortunate to be able to study the following courses with CRM – Basic Training,
working with Black Holes, Working with Paradox, Healing the Healer, Generational Training and
I will be taking Core Self Training in November 2022. I do my own therapy work in the CRM
model and have found this to be profoundly helpful in my relationships and in shifting my
established patterns that no longer serve me. It has also allowed me to connect more deeply
with my own spirituality and connection to my Self and to grow as a psychotherapist. It has had
a profound impact on my life and on the lives of my clients.

I have additional training as a Yoga Instructor and Yoga Therapist and have been working to
integrate yoga therapy into the treatment I provide to my clients in private practice. Yoga
Therapy dovetails very nicely with CRM work and both are providing me with a new way to
deepen my understanding of the other and of how I want to work with healing in general.
My other interests in psychotherapy have been in studying intersubjective theory, self
psychology, feminist relational psychotherapy, attachment theory, developmental theories, Satir
family therapy, relational couples therapy, and emotionally focused therapy.

I welcome new clients who are interested in dedicating themselves to their own healing journey
and to doing the inspiring, challenging, energizing and healing work that CRM offers.