Therapy for Adults Navigating Relational Pain, Trauma & Life Transitions

Support for healing, rebuilding, and finding wholeness

In‑person counselling in the Westshore area of Greater Victoria. Virtual support across BC.

I’m So Glad You’re Here

While my practice centers the experiences of women, I offer individual counselling to adults of any gender identity who are seeking support with present-day challenges or healing from historical trauma. I provide both short-term counselling and long-term psychotherapy.

I see my role as a therapist is that of a companion, walking alongside fellow humans who may be feeling lost and longing for greater wellbeing, authenticity, inner stability, healthier relationships, and a more vibrant sense of self.  

You might be here because life feels especially heavy right now and you’re needing support beyond what friends or family can offer. It might be uncertainty in your intimate relationship, moving through heartbreak and grief, coping with family estrangement, or carrying the impacts of an unhealthy or abusive relationship. Or perhaps you experienced a relationship ending some time ago but you still feel heavy hearted, stuck, or unable to move forward after the loss.

Sometimes it’s a dull ache or a quiet hurt that’s hard to name, but something inside feels “off”. 

You might also be carrying the effects of childhood neglect, abuse, or abandonment and wondering how those early experiences shape your current relationships, your parenting, and your sense of self.

Overwhelming feelings – fear, grief, confusion, shame, anger, anxiety, or depression – are deeply human and normal responses to destabilizing events, whether current or historical. I view these not as personal failings but as signals of deeper experiences that deserves care, attention, and tending without pathologizing.

Relationship fractures can also lead to disconnection and estrangement from the extended support system and the people you once relied on. When this happens it’s especially important to build up new sources of care and connection.

Co-parenting and blending of families following a separation can bring their own emotional and logistical complexities, and every family system has its own unique challenges and needs to navigate.

How I Help

I support adults through intense and confusing life experiences by creating a safe, steady space to slow down, feel seen and heard, and begin to make sense of what’s happening inside.

Traumatic experiences, major life transitions, and relational endings are inherently destabilizing. And yet, once some steadiness returns, these moments can also become fertile ground to explore undiscovered parts of yourself, tend to old wounds, and intentionally shape an empowering new chapter for yourself (and your family).

My counselling approach is trauma-informed, holistic, and integrates somatic psychotherapy techniques. This approach recognizes the connection between the mind and body and helps to process traumatic experiences in a safe and supportive environment. Therapy can help you reconnect with your inner strength, rebuild a sense of safety, and move through life with more confidence. Over time, many people find themselves cultivating healthier relationships, feeling more grounded and steady, and experiencing a renewed sense of wholeness. Healing can feel like more joy, more ease, more self‑love, and a growing sense of self-trust.

Clients often share that they feel lighter after the first session, grateful for a space where they can show up as their whole self. Many describe a sense of relief and renewed energy, even as they connect with deep pain and difficult truths. With steady weekly or bi‑weekly sessions, you’ll gain traction, clarity, and meaningful change, but wherever you are in your process, I’m here to meet you where you are at.

My goal is to create a safe, non-judgmental therapeutic space where you can show up exactly as you are, and together, we co-create the helpful way forward that feels supportive and true for you.

All of you is welcome.

I warmly invite you to connect with me for a free, no pressure consultation call to mutually assess our fit in working together. If I am not the right therapist for you, I am committed to ensuring you access good care, and I will happily provide referrals.

Specializations and Therapy Focus:

  • Relationship uncertainty or ambivalence (“Should I stay or should I go?”)
  • Relationship Ending & Loss: Breakups, Separation, Divorce
  • Unhealthy and Abusive Relationship Dynamics
  • Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
  • Family Estrangement
  • Childhood Developmental Trauma and C-PTSD
  • Chronic Stress & Emotional Overwhelm
  • Motherhood / Parenthood
  • Parents navigating Co-Parenting, Step-Parenting, or Blended Family Life
  • Sexual Identity and Wellbeing
  • Identity and Self-Esteem
  • Loneliness and Isolation

Lasting Change Is Possible

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.

yellow, wall, plaster, plaster, plaster, plaster, plaster, plaster

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