Meet our team

Welcome! I am a psychotherapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and owner of Beyond the Pines Therapy based in Vancouver, BC. I hold a B.F.A. in Theatre from U.B.C. and an M.A. in Counselling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. I have completed clinical internships through Dr. Peter Centre and Nightingale Counselling & Research, and am committed to ongoing education and clinical supervision.

My approach is non-directive, collaborative, and highly exploratory. I engage clients with sincere curiosity and an underlying belief in the resilience of the human spirit. I utilize psychodynamic, family systems, and attachment-focused approaches to provide in-person and online services for adults, teenagers, and couples. I offer trauma-informed treatment that extends beyond temporary symptom relief and helps you move towards a greater experience of wholeness.

Having grown up in northern towns all over Western Canada and moving 30 times by the age of 30, I am accustomed to building relationships with new people. I have enjoyed exposure to wildly different communities and have a background in various fields including industrial work, bartending, theatre/film, and education.

Outside of the therapy office you may find me at the cinema, exploring the coastline with my family, enjoying a very loud concert, rehearsing a new play, or immersing myself in a Steinbeck novel.

Welcome to my practice. Counselling helps us unearth our internal compass, also called our inner intelligence, intuition, or higher self, so that we can relearn how to trust ourselves again. This is important work. Our pain, anxiety, sadness, love, and joy all have important information for us. They can reveal what is required of us to heal, grow, and even thrive.

As a counsellor, I bring my whole self to this work. My goal is to honour the dignity of each person in the room, so that you can experience support, and encouragement in the specific ways you need as an individual, couple, or family. At the heart of what I do is deep listening. This means, I not only listen when you speak, but I attune myself to the meaning and emotions underneath your words. I want to understand who you are, so that we can explore the issues, concerns, and patterns that are impacting your life. During our sessions, I create both a gentle and deliberate pacing, so that you feel calm and reassured to navigate your own healing and growth.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (#23244) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and hold a Master's of Counselling Psychology from Adler University, a Master of Arts in Acoustic Communication from Simon Fraser University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Victoria. I am also trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI). Official training aside, in my personal journey, I have drawn strength from my relationships built in community and from matriarch leaders. This education have informed all aspects of my life, including my work as a counsellor.

2023

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with a Master's in Counselling. I have an extensive work history supporting people from a wide variety of backgrounds and, in recent years, have given significant attention to youth and families.

I have been married for 24 years and have four children (19 to 12). I’m part of the community of adoptive families.

You can trust me to treat you with respect, kindness and dignity. I’ll care about you, your family and your story.

I very much look forward to supporting you on your journey, wherever that journey may currently find you.

All of us at Launchpad Counselling consider it a great privilege to live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.