My training is scientist/practitioner; science/evidence is fundamental to my work. This is not just talking. It is therapy; Evidence-Based Therapy. The best available scientific research informs every step of our work together.

My years of education, vast clinical experience, and results of scientific studies all help me work with you in the best way to honour who you are, what you are working on, and your goals.

The world is complex, confusing, troubling, and, at times, overwhelming for kids … and adults.

When the world becomes difficult, people tend to look for “the answer.” But often, “the answer” feels incomplete because it IS incomplete. Living is not a series of problems to be solved. Living is the journey through the problems.

A complete solution means developing a perspective that nurtures creativity, flexibility, and openness to options. It is developing a Play Perspective.

Play-informed therapy focuses on how you approach problems and the way you seek a solution. Research supports the outcomes of therapy success are often more about the way you seek a solution than the actual solution.

Play-informed therapy can look like play, doing a piece of art, or it can be as simple as integrating humour. I promise I will not make you sit on the floor and play with lego… I mean, if you desperately want to … maybe….but this is not my intent.

Play Informed Therapy focuses on developing a playful and creative approach to problem-solving and living. It focuses on increasing personal responsibility, emotional expression, empathy, self-confidence, and social relationships.

Albert Einstein stated, “Play is the highest form of research”, and Play Therapy research has shown it can be the window into happiness, well-being and living fully.

I can help you find the humour and play in your life … and I will have lego… if you really want it.

I use a respectful, conscious approach to build an understanding of how your life experience, age, race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identification, religion, culture, ethnicity, and belief system interact to form your unique opinions, values, morals, attitudes, and behaviours.

I aim to honour and respect how you interact with your world and how it interacts with you. The terminology in the research refers to this as “Individual, Cultural and Diversity Competence” and “Intersectionality.”

My training focused on developing inward curiosity to discover and become aware of myself, my culture, and my interaction with my world. This inward awareness acts as a foundation for building a deep and conscious approach to seeing you as a distinct and unique individual and understanding the differences between my experience of the world and your experience.

Research indicates that therapy that focuses on recognizing and responding to the individual, culture, and diversity increases comfort, improves communication, and makes treatment more effective even when working with clients with diverse and different backgrounds and experiences.

My training allows me more breadth in who I can help. I genuinely want to listen, hear, see and understand you!