Heart-Centered Counselling

I listen with warmth, curiosity and humility. I can support you to make changes that help you feel alive and more resilient no matter what is happening in your life.

My approach is open-hearted, relational and attuned. My goal is to help you connect - to your internal experiences, to your strengths, to your needs, to your heart, to the wisdom of your body, to your inner knowing, and to the people who matter to you. Therapy should help you move towards new pathways in your brain and in your life.By exploring limiting self-beliefs and unfinished business, you can learn to regulate your nervous system, have more choice with less reactivity, and find self-compassion.

I am trained transpersonal counselling, somatic experiencing (intermediate level) and other somatic therapies, griefwork, family systems theory, Hand-in-Hand Parenting, anti-racist and anti-oppression theory, and climate psychology. You can read more about my background here, and you can contact me here for a no-cost 15-30 minute consultation to see if my presence and approach are a good fit for you. It takes courage to reach out, and I appreciate how hard that can be. I really look forward to meeting you.

This approach can support:

  • grief, overwhelm & stress

  • trauma or PTSD

  • parents and their struggles

  • caregivers, aging & life transitions

  • climate distress, uncertainty in a chaotic world, unfair systems

Finally on my way to yes
I bump into all the places where I said no to my life
all the untended wounds
the red and purple scars
those hieroglyphs of pain
carved into my skin, my bones,
those coded messages that send me down the wrong street again and again
where I find them
the old wounds
the old misdirections
and I lift them one by one
close to my heart
and I say
holy holy

The Healing Time by Pesha Gertler