My work is primarily dedicated to helping individuals thrive in The Third Age of Life - a time of immense possibility and also unique challenges and vulnerabilities.
Therapy can be beneficial in navigating The Third Age, helping individuals align life with personal values and strengths, while finding meaning in the challenges that are beyond one’s capacity to change. This alignment can help to safeguard wellness while bringing deep satisfaction and significance to daily life.
Once an individual reaches out to me we begin the work of exploring the powerful, yet often invisible (unconscious) forces that can painfully separate us from our values and the meaningful life we desire.
Over the course of therapy, my clients engage in guided self-reflection that generally results in a gradual unfolding of insight, liberation from patterns of thought and behaviour that are no longer serving, the illumination of a meaningful path forward, and enough courage for the journey.
I bring to my work a varied background and a wealth of life experience that includes a career in nursing, parenting adult children, a long term marriage, teaching, a variety of creative pursuits, a lifelong commitment to wellness, a later-in-life return to university, and the navigation of my own life challenges.
My experiences, and especially my previous career as an oncology nurse, enable me to bring genuine understanding and empathy to my work, as well as the capacity to hold space for deep emotional expression.
Mine is an integrative model of therapy that is grounded in depth psychology. It seeks to get to the heart of the matter by respecting the impact of the past, while focusing on the present, and supporting movement toward a more peaceful and satisfying future.
I draw inspiration from a wide range of therapeutic approaches but primarily engage with Existential Therapy, Jungian Depth Psychology, and Internal Family Systems (IFS). The way in which I engage with these and other approaches is informed by the unique needs and personal resources that my clients bring to the therapeutic process. My continued education in these and other areas of psychotherapy is consistent and ongoing.
Life can be hard and I have deep respect for those who seek therapy in an effort to make the most of their one precious life. It would be my privilege to accompany you on your unique journey to a more meaningful, peaceful, and satisfying Third Age.
