Specializations
Adults, teenagers, and couples. People who want counselling that takes their faith seriously, and people who would rather it never came up. I have a particular commitment to Black and Indigenous clients, and to men, who are usually the last in the room to ask for help and the ones who most often say afterwards that they wish they had come sooner.
When your head will not stop and your body will not settle.
You lie awake rehearsing a conversation that already happened. You are tired in a way that sleep does not fix. Things you used to manage without thinking have started to take everything you have. We work out what is keeping the pattern running, and what actually interrupts it.
For the losses people expect you to be over by now.
A death, a marriage, a country you left, a version of your life that is not coming back. Grief does not move in a straight line and it does not keep to anyone's schedule. There is nothing to fix here. There is a lot to carry, and it is easier carried out loud.
For the things your body remembers before you do.
Something happened, and part of you is still there. It can show up as sleep that will not come, anger that arrives too fast, places and people you avoid without deciding to, or a flatness where feeling used to be. You do not have to tell me the whole of it, and you do not have to tell it before you are ready. We go at the pace you set, and we work on what it is doing to you now.
For the same argument, had a hundred different ways.
Most couples do not arrive because of one big thing. They arrive because the same conversation keeps ending badly and nobody can say why. We slow it down far enough to see what is actually happening, and then we work on it together.
Prepare and Enrich, with someone who has run it for eleven years.
Premarital counselling is not a test you can fail. It is a structured way to have the conversations that are easier to have now than in three years: money, family, faith, expectations, and what each of you assumes the other already knows.
If you want your faith in the room, it is welcome here.
I hold a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Religious Studies. For clients who want it, faith is part of the work rather than something set aside at the door. For clients who do not, it never comes up. Both are entirely normal, and you do not have to explain your choice.
Thoughts of ending your life are more common than people admit.
If you are having them, you are not broken and you are not beyond help. This is part of what I work with. If you are in immediate danger, please use the crisis numbers at the bottom of this page first, then come back and book when you are safe.
Fifty minutes, on a secure video call. The first one is mostly me listening and asking questions, so that by the end we both know what you want to be different. There is no couch, no notepad being scribbled in, and no expectation that you arrive with the right words. Most people say afterwards that it was less strange than they expected.
You do not have to have decided which of these it is. Working that out is part of what a first session is for.