Meet Your Therapist

My Therapeutic Approach

My passion is to help people who are experiencing challenges build a more meaningful and enjoyable life. I pride myself on employing a collaborative and compassionate approach while fostering a safe and inclusive space for sharing and exploring. My goal is to journey with my clients while they process the past, find acceptance, define new goals, and find new confidence, love and peace. I believe every person deserves to live a life of happiness.

Through my professional training and experience in the mental health field, I have been inspired to work with individuals, couples and families, from a variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, religions, and stages of life. I am passionate about helping those facing the impact of mental health and life challenges.My approach to therapy combines Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Eco-systemic family therapy as well as Gottman Method when working with couples.

A Core Part of My Work: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

A cornerstone of my approach is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) — an evidence-based therapy that helps people who struggle with intense emotions and patterns of thinking or behaving that feel hard to manage. DBT blends acceptance and change: it teaches people how to accept themselves as they are and develop practical skills to cope with distress, regulate emotions, build self-awareness, and communicate more effectively.

I often draw on DBT’s four skill areas:

• Mindfulness: staying present and aware of thoughts and feelings in a non-judgmental way.
• Distress Tolerance: coping with crisis situations without making things worse.
• Emotion Regulation: understanding, naming, and managing intense emotions.
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: building healthy relationships, setting boundaries, and asking for needs to be met.

Supporting Healthy Relationships: The Gottman Couples Method
When working with couples, I integrate the Gottman Method, which is based on decades of research about what makes relationships thrive. This approach focuses on helping partners strengthen friendship and intimacy, manage conflict in healthy ways, and build a shared sense of meaning and purpose in their lives together.

In practice, I help couples:

• Understand and break unhealthy communication patterns.
• Learn tools for managing conflict without blame or defensiveness.
• Build deeper emotional connection and trust.
• Develop shared goals, rituals, and dreams for their future together.
• Repair hurts and strengthen their “emotional bank account” through small, everyday acts of love and respect.

The Gottman Method gives couples practical, research-based tools to shift from patterns that keep them stuck to new ways of relating that help them feel more supported and connected.

Ecosystemic Family Therapy
In addition to individual and couples work, I use principles of Ecosystemic Family Therapy when supporting families or when relational dynamics are part of the client’s concerns. This framework views people not in isolation, but as part of larger systems — family, community, culture, and other relationships that shape who they are and how they cope.

Ecosystemic Family Therapy focuses on how patterns within the family system influence each member’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. By exploring these interactions, we can better understand where unhelpful patterns come from and how they can be shifted. This approach is especially useful for families navigating conflict, intergenerational trauma, cultural transitions, parenting challenges, or major life changes.

When appropriate, I help families build healthier ways of communicating, set clearer boundaries, and find strengths within the family that can support healing and growth. By viewing problems in context, we can create more sustainable change not just for the individual, but for the family as a whole.

Bringing It All Together

My practice also integrates Attachment and Trauma-based theories, mindfulness, laughter yoga, and somatic relaxation techniques to help calm the body while processing the mind’s experiences.

Through open collaboration, I provide feedback, offer insight, and co-create personalized treatment plans that match each client’s unique story and goals. My overall approach is simple but powerful: to help people accept their emotions, challenge unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and build practical tools to transform patterns that no longer serve them — so they can move forward with more confidence, connection, and peace.