Therapy for Adults Navigating Relational Pain & Emotional Overwhelm

Offering in‑person sessions in the Westshore area of Greater Victoria and virtual support across BC.

You don’t have to carry this alone.

I’m So Glad You’re Here

Life can feel heavy. Sometimes stress, sadness, or big changes make it hard to cope, and it’s more than what our friends or family can support. A breakup, divorce, or loss can feel like too much. Old ways of coping stop working, and it feels scary to face it alone.

Big losses and life changes often feel disorientating, debilitating, and layered with confusion and self-doubt. They can also bring up relational traumas from the past which further complicates the experience.

I support adults through these complicated and intense experiences by creating a safe place to slow down, feel seen and heard, and begin to make sense of what’s happening inside. Together, we explore emotions in gentle, manageable ways, and you’ll learn coping skills to manage emotional pain, intensity, and change process with more confidence and steadiness. We’ll create a road map for moving forward, and building boundaries that honour your safety and wellbeing.

Many of my clients are parents, navigating the in-between place of healing current and historical wounds and wanting to offer their children a new, healthier experience. Our work together supports intergenerational healing.

Over time, you’ll begin to find steadier footing, and you’re likely to develop a new, kinder relationship with yourself. Any narratives of being “unworthy,” or “unlovable”, and feelings of shame, will lose their grip, opening space for love, safety, and connection to grow.

Clients often tell me they feel lighter after the first session and gratitude for the safe space where they can show up as their full self and name their truth. Many tell me they are excited and energized about the process, even as they connect with deep pain and hurtful truths. With steady weekly or bi‑weekly sessions, you’ll gain traction, clarity, and meaningful change.

All of you is welcome.

Specializations and Therapy Focus:

  • Relationship Ending & Loss: Break Ups, Separation, Divorce
  • Unhealthy and Abusive Relationships Dynamics
  • Chronic Stress & Emotional Overwhelm
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Motherhood / Parenthood
  • Co-Parenting, Step-Parenting, or Blended Family Life
  • Identity and Self-Esteem
  • Loneliness and Isolation
  • Sexual & Gender-Based Violence

Lasting Change Is Possible

Through somatic and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, we gently address traumatic stress at its root, from “the bottom up”, so you can move forward with greater peace, clarity, and confidence. We will mindfully move at the pace that is right for you, honour your lived experiences, and move towards an authentic and sustainable reconnection to yourself.

My approach to therapy centers and honours your inner wisdom and voice. Healing isn’t something I do to you, it’s something we co-create together.

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Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.” – Lisa Olivera