About my practice

My practice is built around two areas: the experience of gender and identity, and the experience of violence and its aftermath.

If you're navigating questions about your gender, your sexuality, or who you're becoming, I work with people at all stages of that process: gender exploration and transition, coming out, dysphoria, grief from family rejection or loss of community, and the exhaustion of trying to access care in systems that weren't designed with you in mind. I also write letters supporting access to gender-affirming medical care, including HRT referral letters, gender-affirming surgery evaluative letters, and Prior Approval Forms.

If something harmful has happened to you, or is still happening, and you're trying to make sense of it or find your footing, that's work we can do together. I work with people who have been hurt in relationships, in childhood, and by people who were supposed to be safe. People carrying shame, self-blame, fear, or a complicated relationship with their own safety. People who aren't sure they're ready to call what happened to them what it was. I bring a harm reduction approach, which means I meet you where you are, without judgment about where you're at or what you're ready for.

Sessions look different depending on what you need. Some days we might explore emotions, patterns, or body-based responses. Other days we focus on grounding, coping skills, or rebuilding trust in yourself. I use a combination of evidence-informed trauma practices, parts-oriented work, and narrative approaches to help you connect in with yourself.

About me

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 years of 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.