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Capacity-Building Support for Meaningful, Sustainable Change
Most people don't seek therapy because they lack insight. They seek support because despite their best efforts, they find themselves stuck in patterns that no longer serve them—feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, exhausted, or caught in cycles they can't seem to break.
As a Registered Nurse Psychotherapist, I provide compassionate, evidence-informed care that helps you move beyond symptom management toward lasting change. My approach integrates behavioural science, nervous system regulation, and evidence-based psychotherapy to help you understand not only what is happening, but why change has felt difficult to sustain.
At the foundation of my work is the Resilience-Inspired Action Framework™, a capacity-first approach that recognizes that sustainable change requires more than motivation and willpower. Together, we focus on building the internal capacity necessary to navigate challenges, strengthen self-trust, and create meaningful change that feels safe, sustainable, and aligned with your values.
Clinical Areas of Focus
Body Image, Self-Worth & Emotional Resilience
Struggles with body image and self-worth often extend far beyond appearance. They can influence how you relate to yourself, your relationships, your decisions, and your ability to move through life's challenges with confidence.
Many individuals come to therapy feeling stuck in cycles of self-criticism, shame, comparison, or the belief that they need to change who they are before they can feel good enough. Together, we identify the patterns that may be keeping you stuck while building the resilience, confidence, and self-trust needed for lasting change.
Therapy may focus on body image concerns, self-esteem, emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, boundary setting, self-compassion, and aligning your actions with your values—helping you develop a healthier relationship with your body, greater trust in yourself, and a stronger capacity to navigate life's challenges.
Disordered Eating, Eating Disorder Recovery & Relationship with Food
Recovery is not about trying harder, gaining more control, or relying on willpower. Disordered eating and eating disorders often develop as ways of coping with difficult emotions, life experiences, perfectionism, stress, or a disconnection from the body's needs.
Together, we work to understand the factors maintaining these patterns while building the capacity for sustainable change. Using evidence-based approaches (see below), therapy focuses on reducing symptoms, strengthening emotional resilience, rebuilding trust in your body, and developing a more flexible, compassionate relationship with food, movement, and yourself.
Whether you are navigating an eating disorder, disordered eating behaviours, chronic dieting, or concerns about relapse, therapy provides a space to support recovery while creating steady change that can be maintained over time.
Evidence-Based Approaches
Every individual is unique, and therapy is tailored to your specific needs and goals. Therapeutic approaches may include:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
A structured, evidence-based approach that helps identify and shift unhelpful thought patterns, behaviours, and coping strategies.
Enhanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT-E)
The gold-standard treatment for eating disorders and disordered eating, designed to address the underlying mechanisms that maintain symptoms.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills
Practical tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and navigating difficult situations more effectively.
Motivational Interviewing
A collaborative approach that helps strengthen motivation, resolve ambivalence, and support meaningful behaviour change.
Trauma-Informed Care
A framework that recognizes the impact of trauma on the nervous system, relationships, emotions, and coping patterns while fostering safety, choice, and empowerment.
Strength-Based Resilience Building
A capacity-focused approach that supports nervous system regulation, adaptability, emotional resilience, and sustainable wellbeing.
Why Work With a Nurse Psychotherapist?
As a Registered Nurse with a Master of Science, I bring a unique perspective that bridges the gap between your physical health, mental health and behavioral change. I understand that emotional wellbeing does not exist separately from the body. Factors such as stress, sleep, nutrition, nervous system functioning, health conditions, and life demands all influence our capacity to cope, heal, and grow.
This integrated lens allows us to address challenges more holistically, creating a treatment approach that supports the whole person—not just isolated symptoms.
What Working Together May Look Like
Building emotional safety and greater self-awareness
Understanding patterns that no longer serve you
Strengthening nervous system regulation and coping capacity
Developing self-trust, flexibility, and resilience
Improving your relationship with food, your body, and yourself
Creating sustainable habits aligned with your values
Supporting long-term wellbeing and meaningful change
Therapy Session Rate
Initial Consultation (15 minutes): Complementary
Virtual Counselling Session (50 minutes): $150
Treatment Length
Therapy is individualized and guided by your goals, needs, and circumstances. Some clients benefit from short-term, solution-focused support, while others engage in longer-term therapy to deepen recovery, strengthen resilience, and create lasting change.
Insurance Coverage
Many extended health benefit plans provide coverage for psychotherapy services. Please consult your insurance provider directly to confirm eligibility, coverage amounts, and reimbursement requirements.
Availability
Virtual sessions only
Evening and weekend appointments only
Take the Next Step
If you're tired of relying on willpower alone and are ready to build the capacity for meaningful, sustainable change, I would be honoured to support you.
