Understand yourself more deeply
Make sense of your experiences, patterns, relationships, and the things that have shaped how you see yourself and your life.
Individual counselling for adolescents and adults
Counselling that makes room for your whole experience.
You do not need to arrive with the right words, a diagnosis, a clear goal, or a perfectly told story. We can begin with whatever feels important, manageable, or possible to bring.
I offer warm, collaborative, trauma-informed, and neuro-affirming counselling for people who would like to understand themselves more deeply, meet themselves with greater compassion, and make sense of what is shaping their lives.
A place to begin
Both knowing and not knowing are valid places to begin
Sometimes you may know exactly what has brought you here. At other times, you may only know that something feels difficult, overwhelming, stuck, or hard to name. Both are welcome.
Meet yourself with more compassion
Explore shame, perfectionism, people-pleasing, or the inner critic, and find less harsh, more workable ways of relating to yourself.
Make room for change, uncertainty, and meaning
Navigate grief, identity, life transitions, difficult decisions, relationships, or questions about what matters and how you want to live.
What you can expect
Counselling here is collaborative. What matters to you helps shape the work, and you remain free to ask questions, pause, disagree, change direction, or decide that something is not yet ready to be explored.
I will take my lead from what feels important to you, while staying attentive to what may be worth noticing together. With your permission, I may offer gentle reflections, questions, or different ways of understanding something. The choices remain yours.
You do not need to mask, suppress your needs, make eye contact, explain yourself perfectly, or make yourself easier to understand. We can talk together about what may help counselling feel more workable for you.
A first appointment is a place to begin
A first session is a chance to meet, talk about what has brought you here, and see whether working together feels like a good fit. There is no expectation to commit to ongoing counselling.
You do not need to know whether counselling is right for you before getting in touch, and you do not need to explain everything in an initial appointment request. A few words is enough. We can begin with whatever feels comfortable enough.
Most counselling sessions take place in person. I value the shared experience of being in the room together as we get to know one another, build trust, and develop a shared understanding of what supports you. Once we have had time to build that foundation, online appointments may be an option where appropriate, particularly when they make ongoing counselling more accessible or workable.
Take your time
You are welcome to take your time here, to read, leave, return another day, or decide that now is not the right time. If and when you would like to request a first appointment, a few words is enough.
Request an appointmentShare as much or as little as you would like. Please do not include highly personal, urgent, or crisis information in the form.