Perhaps you've been thinking about therapy,
maybe even the idea of taking a deep dive into your life experience as a means to change things, makes sense of things, move through and out of struggle and pain

Take a look at what I offer and book a consultation to see if we'd be a good fit in cultivating the change you want to see in your life.

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Oftentimes in life, we aren’t afforded the time, opportunity or privilege to learn the most beneficial ways to sift through what comes our way.

We tackle things as best we can using strategies learned from previous experiences or react unintentionally. In some situations, our default strategies end up taking us further away from what we want.
This can prevent us from knowing or fulfilling our needs and we may get stuck not knowing how best to cope or how to move forward - or even worse, unintentionally making things worse.

With supportive conditions, I believe we are capable of unlearning what no longer serves us and shift towards ways that are more beneficial to our well-being.

Therapy is about cultivating a space and a trusting relationship where you can explore life’s challenges,
connect to your power, joy, authenticity, understand what you need and how to meet your needs in deep connection to life. And as a therapist, I am committed to building a relationship that supports your unique needs, develops your strengths and fosters your innate ability to heal and thrive.

I offer online therapy services for individuals, who are residents of Ontario.

Email me to schedule a free 20-30 min phone consultation and let's talk about what I offer and if it fits what you are looking for.

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About Me

ABOUT ME

Born in India, I grew up in Mi'kma'ki (colonially known as Nova Scotia), and now call Tkaronto home.

I was raised in a family that paid attention to power and privilege and the effects of it on people's ability to survive and thrive.

I've consistently sought to learn about systems of power and privilege, inequity and inequality, in large global scale contexts and in our everyday human interactions - and how all of these intersect and dance together in the complex, beautiful and hard layers of life we experience.

I work hard to continuously unlearn oppressive ways of being that we grow up internalizing. I'm committed to this deeply reflexive and accountable work personally as a way of life and my professional practice is part of that. I strive to co-create a therapeutic relationship and space that centers a person and where they are at with my utmost integrity, ethics and wholehearted presence, alongside skill and care.

I am an immigrant settler on this colonized land and within systems that continue to perpetuate systemic harm and ongoing genocide to indigenous people. I dream of a decolonial, anti-capitalist, anti-exploitative and anti-oppressive world were everyone has the means and support to take care of themselves, each other and creatively thrive in liberation. In the meantime, I muddle through, trying to disrupt systems of harm and create and live in systems of care as best as I can, as I learn and grow more towards that which I dream of.

I am a caste-privileged, queer, woc (she/her), who has come to my clinical practice from a place of figuring out where my skills and passion best meet empowerment, social justice and change. I have always sought roles that enable me to expand my capacity to be with people in a way they needed and yet also fit with what I could offer.

Ultimately, my own therapy journey lead me to develop my clinical skills professionally.

The therapeutic frameworks I offer and have trained in, are ones that I also benefit from in my personal therapy experience and therefore I resonate deeply with, beyond my clinical training.

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Therapeutic Approach

Blue Rocks Nova Scotia, ocean cove wih seaweed covered rocks in the foreground and edges of the land, golden and green grass in foreground, ocean waters with bouys and dingy's in the wate with a fish shack in the distance on the otherside of the shore near a cluster of trees

THERAPEUTIC APPROACH

I work from a humanistic perspective. To me, this means: people are inherently good and try their best while developing protective ways of navigating through life that may not serve them when they aim to thrive and not just survive.

I welcome folks as you are, however you identify, orient and present.

I am sex/kink positive, body positive, 2SLGBTQQIA+ affirming,
and work with people in relationships of varying romantic and intimate structures.

I work from an anti-oppressive, anti-black racism, decolonial, feminist and systems perspectives that inform how larger and smaller systems and ways of being, weave together to shape our experiences.

I am trauma informed
I use an Attachment Theory lens
I'm trained in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy),
along with parts work frameworks
- informed by IFS (Internal Family Systems)
- and Structural Dissociation Theory.

Alongside talk therapy, I focus on engaging in non-talk therapy practices through:

Structural Dissociation (Parts work)
EMDR (Eye Motion Desensitizing Reprocessing)
DBR (Deep Brain Re-Orienting)

I am trained in all three of these modalities beyond introductory training modules and continue to enhance my skill set with ongoing trainings and continued supervision.

Combined with talk therapy, these modalities can help people move beyond managing their day to day experiences to resolving past undigested content - and thereby having less to manage.

Training

An undergrad B.A in International Development Studies
-- inverted to global power and inequities studies through redirection with independent study and my thesis
A B.Ed in Outdoor and Experiential Education

And a Masters in Social Work

I am licensed and registered with the College of Social Workers

Therapy Specific Training

Beyond my social work masters degree, I have pursued the following additional clinical trainings:

Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy Externship
- Attachment work
- 4 day, 28 hour externship 2017
Eye Motion De-sensitizing Reprocessing EMDR
- 64 hours training including content, practicum, consultation 2019
- 64 hours advanced study placement with content, practicum, consultation 2024
Structural Dissociation - Parts work
- 3 day training 2019
- 3 day advanced study placement training 2024
Deep Brain Reorienting
- levels 1 and 2 training with Frank Corrigan 2021