Trauma-Informed Therapy in Ontario
for Children, Teens & Parents
Support for anxiety, emotional overwhelm, trauma, and parenting stress — helping you feel more calm, connected and confident.
Support for You and Your Family
A Different Approach To Therapy - How We Work Together
Understand Your Mind
Learn how thoughts, emotions, and your nervous system interact.
Understand your mind. Work with your nervous system. Create real change.
My work integrates a trauma-informed and neuroscience-based understanding of how the mind and body respond to stress.
This includes:
· Understanding how the nervous system responds to overwhelm
· Identifying patterns that keep people feeling stuck
· Supporting emotional regulation and resilience
· Creating practical, meaningful strategies for change
This work is always paced in a way that feels safe, supportive, and manageable.
You don’t have to figure this out alone.
Whether you’re looking for support for yourself, your child, or your family, we can take the next step together.
Move Beyond Feeling Stuck
Identify patterns and develop strategies that create change.
Reconnect Mind & Body
Build awareness and regulation to feel more grounded and in control.
Who I Support
· Children experiencing anxiety or big emotions
· Teens feeling overwhelmed, stressed, or withdrawn
· Parents feeling burnt out, frustrated, or unsure what to do
· Families navigating conflict, stress, or disconnection
· Individuals working through trauma and emotional overwhelm
Parenting can feel overwhelming - when you're trying to support your child while managing your own stress and uncertainty - this is more common than you think.
Even when you’re doing your best, it can feel like nothing is working.
With the right parenting support, it’s possible to feel calmer, more confident and more in control.
A Thoughtful, Science-Informed Approach
How I Can Help
In relationships, you may feel stuck, disconnected, or unheard - many people find themselves here at some point.
It can be hard to know how to reconnect, even when you both care deeply.
Change is possible with the right support and guidance.
For those carrying trauma or emotional overwhelm, things can feel heavy and unpredictable.
You may feel on edge, drained, or disconnected and it can be difficult to know what to do about it.
There is a way forward and it is possible to feel more grounded and regain a sense of control.
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Online trauma-informed therapy for children, teens, parents, adults and families across Ontario.
Supporting you and your family with clarity, compassion, and connection.
Online Therapy across Ontario - Supporting clients in Kingston, Toronto, Ottawa and across urban and rural communities