My Services

Play Therapy

Play therapy is my passion as I believe strongly that children understand the world and their place within it through play – not dialogue. The symbolic function of toys and play provides a rich therapeutic experience for children to process, express, and manage issues they may be navigating and for which they may not have words.  The use of puppets, sand play, expressive arts, building, storytelling, role play, and therapeutic games are used in both the assessment and intervention components of work with younger children. Psychoeducation is integrated into these activities to help both children and parents better understand how our bodies and brains work and how we can begin to work with them to function more effectively in our relationships and our world. Rather than asking children to join my language-based world as an adult, I choose, instead, to join their world of play to facilitate therapeutic work in areas such as grief and loss, emotion regulation, anxiety, challenging behaviour, and trauma processing.

Adolescents

My work with adolescents focuses on creating connection and a safe space for them to be fully seen and heard to process all that they are experiencing during a very challenging developmental life phase. Many adolescents feel misunderstood , dismissed, or criticized by the other adults in their life and experience a sense of isolation and loneliness during these years of immense transition. I aim to walk alongside them and support them in navigating the unique challenges that adolescence brings. Experiential activities may be integrated into work with adolescents who are open to it as a helpful way to understand and process what they are experiencing, however, the format of the session is largely driven by the needs and desire of the adolescent. They lead. I follow. 

Adults