I am dedicated to helping adults navigate a wide range of emotional and psychological challenges. I work with clients facing issues such as depression, anxiety, worry, complex trauma, and dissociation, as well as insecure attachment, stress, anger, and low self-esteem. I also provide support for individuals struggling with time-management, grief, social disconnection, and major life transitions. Whether you’re facing family challenges, relationship difficulties, struggles with motivation, or searching for meaning and self-understanding, I offer a warm, compassionate, and safe space to help you navigate the difficult questions your life is presenting.

I adopt a personalized approach to therapy, recognizing that each person’s journey is unique. Drawing on a variety of evidence-based psychological tools, I help clients break free from confusion and distress that can at times feel overwhelming, guiding them toward clarity, hope, and meaningful change. My background in existential-humanistic, psychoanalytic, attachment-based, and cognitive-behavioural perspectives allows me to tailor sessions to your specific needs, helping you to not only feel better but to gain insight into the deeper patterns affecting your life.

In our initial sessions, we will spend some time learning about what has brought you to therapy. Our goal will be to understand who you are as a person as well as how your various situations have come to shape you. To this end, I will ask about aspects of your past and your present, as well as the future (as you have envisioned it for yourself). I might also make use of evidence-based assessment tools to facilitate our process of exploring your inner life and its meanings together. After learning about the sources of distress in your life as well as your personal strengths and resiliencies, we will work together to establish goals and a treatment plan for you to achieve these goals.

In addition to my work in psychotherapy, I conduct psychodiagnostic assessments for individuals with concerns of mood dysregulation (depression, bipolar, anger), worry (fear and anxiety), interpersonal challenges (rejection-sensitivity, shame, avoidance, dependence), inattention (trouble with concentration, spacing out), trauma (loss of trust in self, others, or the future), dissociation (disconnection from self and world), and loss of motivation (loss of desire and hope). I also provide collaborative and therapeutic assessments (CTAs), which form an important pillar in my assessment practice. CTA is a brief intervention that uses psychometrically validated tests to promote self-understanding and personal growth rather than diagnosis of mental disorders. CTA is particularly helpful when clients are unclear about their therapeutic needs, in need of clearer goals to guide therapy, or are wanting to better understand themselves and the underlying cause of their negative patterns.

I am currently a clinical psychologist in supervised practice working under the supervision of Dr. Brent Mulrooney, C. Psych. I completed my residency at the Centre for Interpersonal Relationships where I worked with clients with diverse challenges. Prior to my residency, I worked at a university psychology clinic for a number of years, providing psychological assessment and psychotherapy services for students and members of the broader community.

I was granted a $40,000 Doctoral Fellowship by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council to support my doctoral research on the role of personality differences in experiences of psychological distress. Specifically, I developed a method of assessing why individuals become and stay stuck in their negative patterns, a method I draw on in my assessment practice at the Centre for Interpersonal Relationships.

I have taught undergraduate courses in introductory psychology and cognitive science. My research is highly interdisciplinary and resides at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, psychological assessment, and personality theory. To date, I have presented internationally at over 20 academic conferences in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, and I hold professional memberships with the Canadian and American Psychological Associations and the Society for Personality Assessment. Below you can find some recent coverage of my research in the popular press, as well as podcast interviews I have done on personality differences and attachment theory:

Psypost Article 1: https://www.psypost.org/2023/04/the-new-enactivist-big-five-theory-of-personality-could-provide-unique-insights-into-human-psychology-74774

Psypost Article 2: https://www.psypost.org/2023/08/new-research-proposes-individualizing-psychological-assessment-using-the-five-factor-model-of-personality-168362

Podcast on Personality Theory: https://youtu.be/6fCdKTqh7CA?si=o0n12P4tlfBWe6uI

Podcast on Personality and Attachment: https://youtu.be/nJPQhRuWjXc?si=NwIYRFK6Fn8EXbr_