Some things are hard to bring to therapy because you're not sure the person across from you will actually get it. I started this work partly because I know that feeling, what it's like to navigate a world that wasn't built for you and have to explain that from scratch to someone who's supposed to help. I work from the inside of the communities I serve, not from the outside looking in.

During my PhD I spent years learning about how our identities and social location shape how we see the world and how the world sees us. That foundation runs through everything I do, and it's part of why I understand gender, power, and systemic harm not just as concepts but as things that show up in people's bodies, relationships, and daily lives.

The violence thread of my practice is grounded in experience working with gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence, and sexual violence response and the people who access it. Alongside this, I have sustained specialized training in crisis intervention, risk assessments for IPV, violence threat risk assessment, and counselling survivors across a range of experiences, including those who are often left out of mainstream conversations about violence.

I hold memberships in WPATH and the NB Transgender Health Network, which keep me connected to current standards and an active community of practice in transgender health.