Somatic and IFS-informed Psychotherapy
Change begins as a feeling.
Psychotherapy for adults navigating anxiety, burnout, and patterns they can't think their way out of.
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Somatic and IFS-informed Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy for adults navigating anxiety, burnout, and patterns they can't think their way out of.
Book a free consultation
You can understand exactly why you do something and still not be able to change it. Knowing what you 'should' do, and understanding why you don't, is a helpful beginning that on its own rarely changes much. The patterns that run deepest take shape in our bodies and nervous systems, in the parts of us that formed long before words. So that's where we work together, at a pace your system can trust.
I use Internal Family Systems alongside somatic approaches. Understanding your patterns is only part of it. Lasting change also involves the body and nervous system, where stress and old survival responses are held.
This work doesn't have to feel heavy all the time. Part of what we're building is the capacity to feel more alive, curious, and light in your body.
We look at what's happening in your body: tension, numbness, a racing pulse. That gives us a way into the different parts of you. Sometimes the way in is breath or movement. Sometimes it's stillness.
Stress and emotion that never get processed can keep the nervous system on high alert. Without forcing anything, we make room for them to move through and settle.
Everything you've learned once served a purpose. Together we'll understand how it's been working to keep you safe, and slowly offer your system new options.
"We don't simply have a relationship with our bodies. We are our bodies."
It moves in stages, and it's slow on purpose.
Trust is earned through the safety built between us, and the sense of safety inside your own body. Before we go anywhere deep, we go slow, so you can feel what it's like to pause, to say "not that," to change your mind, and to see that it's honored every time. My role is to stay curious alongside you, not to lead you somewhere you're not ready to go.
Getting to know your inner landscape: the parts of you, the patterns and beliefs, the relational systems that grew inside. As we map, you'll start to notice your own signals, the cues your body sends, what different parts are asking for.
Using sensation and memory as the way in, we'll meet specific parts with care. This is an opportunity to ease emotions that may have been held for a long time, and to question old beliefs we're ready to outgrow.
As you come to trust what your body and your younger parts are telling you, you can start to move and choose differently, in your relationships, your work, your life. Embodied change, over time.
Student therapist, under the clinical supervision of Kenneth Van Wyk, RP (CRPO #1254)
My work focuses on the connection between mind and body. I believe that alongside the thinking mind, the body and the younger parts of us hold a great deal of information that rarely gets heard. Listening to those parts is where we'll begin.
I work with adults navigating burnout, transitions, trauma, and the patterns that formed to protect them. My practice is depth-oriented, and much of my work is helping people explore what they've been carrying at a pace that feels safe, and slowly set it down.
I came to therapy through the body. Before training in psychotherapy I spent years as a movement facilitator and somatic practitioner. I also work as a movement artist. My approach starts from a simple belief: we don't just have a relationship with our bodies. We are our bodies.
I'm warm, curious, and inclined to find the good in every person and their story. I bring a non-pathologizing lens from IFS and somatic practice: a belief that everything in you, including the patterns that get in your way, took shape for a reason.
I practise under the clinical supervision of Kenneth Van Wyk, PhD (cand.), MBA, Registered Psychotherapist (CRPO #1254), (cert) OAMHP Individual, Marriage, and Family Therapist, and Director of the Toronto Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling Education (TCPCE). I see clients on placement at The Wellness Hive. I work on a sliding-scale basis so that depth work stays within reach.
Beyond the therapy room
The Lighthouse is a group I co-facilitate for people feeling the weight of larger crises: climate, the economy, and the systems around us. It's a space to talk about these pressures alongside other people rather than alone.
At The Wellness Hive
There's a particular kind of settling that happens in person. Your body picks up on another nervous system in the room, and for a lot of people that's where the deeper work can open up.
Prefer to meet face to face? I see in-person clients in downtown Toronto, at 10 King Street E, in the heart of the financial district, a short walk from the PATH, TMU, and the core.
It suits people working nearby: a session before work or class, over lunch, or on the way home.
Every client begins with a free virtual consultation. If in person feels right after that, we'll find a time that works.
10 King Street E, Suite 600
Toronto, Ontario
I see clients in person in Toronto and online across Ontario, on placement at The Wellness Hive. Everyone begins with a free virtual consultation, whether you'll later meet in person or online: a low-pressure conversation to feel out whether we're a fit. No commitment, no expectation.
Free virtual consultation. Booking goes through The Wellness Hive.
Where I practise
I see clients as part of the team at The Wellness Hive, a trauma-informed psychotherapy and wellness practice offering in-person and virtual care across Ontario.
In person: 10 King Street E, Suite 600, Toronto
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