I am a Clinical Psychologist registered with the College of Psychologists of Ontario, and am licensed to work with children, adolescents, and adults. When working with clients and families, my approach is collaborative, client-centred, and empathetic, and I emphasize each individual’s strengths as well as their autonomy. At the same time, I am skilled at providing the necessary structure to help support clients in making the changes that they are seeking. I have a background in motivational interviewing, and as such am particularly skilled at engaging people in the treatment process and helping them to build and maintain motivation for change.

I work from an integrative, evidence-based approach. I have training and experience in several evidence-based treatment modalities, but most often integrate strategies from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and a variety of trauma-based approaches when relevant. My therapy approach typically combines both acceptance and change based strategies. I have extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of a variety of mental health difficulties including: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), emotional dysregulation, depression, anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), suicidality, self-harm, behavioural difficulties, and trauma. I also have some experience providing support to individuals with eating disorders, particularly when symptoms are related to emotional dysregulation.

My training and work experiences have been diverse, and include academic, hospital, school board, and private practice settings. I have also been fortunate to have the opportunity to provide workshops in the community, and to be a guest lecturer at OISE/University of Toronto. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Guelph in 2014, after completing my clinical residency at Hamilton Health Sciences, where I primarily worked in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Mental Health Program and received extensive training in providing diagnostic assessments and treatment, as well as providing psychoeducational assessments. I started my career at Broadview Psychology, an outpatient clinic in Toronto specializing in comprehensive Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), where I practiced for five years. My work as a DBT therapist included providing individual therapy for adolescents and young adults with difficulties in the areas of self-harm and suicidality, mood, anxiety, trauma, and difficulties with emotion regulation, relationships, eating, and substance use. I also co-facilitated child, adolescent, young adult, and parent DBT skills groups, and provided supervision and consultation to other practitioners on the team. I then spent five years at Fairmarc Psychology Centre in Toronto, a less specialized practice where I was able to broaden my skills further. In 2024 I made the decision to relocate my practice to Haliburton, where I grew up and where I am now fortunate to be able to raise my one-year-old. I am so happy to be able to provide a unique set of skills and services to the community that played such a large role in shaping me into person (and Psychologist!) I am today.