Supporting your path to embodied healing.
exists on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Wendake-Nionwentsïo, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples. I acknowledge these Nations, and any other recorded or unrecorded Nations who have and continue to care for this land that I am grateful to move and work upon.
My Path
Years ago, at a health consultation, I was asked a trauma related question that caused me to reflect on the connection of the mind and body. It completely confounded me yet, it stayed with me. As soon as I returned home I opened my laptop and began to research trauma and the body. Eventually, I ended up on the same info page of a Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) program I had discovered years earlier. Back then, someone had suggested that I may be interested in learning about and perhaps becoming a practitioner of this therapeutic modality but, it didn’t completely land with me at the time. Although it feels as if the idea took a seat in the recesses of my mind, patiently waiting for me to return to it. Now, I was having a big “aha moment.”
My Practice
Today, I’m a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), Dance/Movement Psychotherapist (Qualifying), and Certified Reiki Master Practitioner.
My therapeutic approach is client-centred, allowing us to make sense of your lived experience together collaboratively, within a relational, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed framework. As a holistic practitioner, I integrate talk therapy and cognitive approaches with psycho-spirituality, expressive arts and somatic (body-oriented) modalities informed by Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® (SP), and Somatic Experiencing® (SE™) training.
Services
As an integrative practitioner, my services combine a variety of therapeutic modalities for a holistic approach to healing that meets your unique needs.
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Integrative Therapy Session
An individualized session that integrates a variety of therapeutic modalities such as talk therapy and cognitive approaches, psycho-spirituality, expressive arts and somatics to address the whole person and consider your specific needs.
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Integrative Therapy Session (50 min.)
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Trauma Integration Session (ITATM)®
A specialized session that layers in sensory processing, art, breath work, somatic therapies, embodied awareness, toning and movement, bilateral stimulation, resource installation, parts work integration, and amygdala reframing messages. This trauma-specific model helps to de-potentiate traumatic experiences and supports folks becoming embodied in a safe and structured way.
Trauma Integration Session (50 min.+)
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Dance/Movement Therapy for Kids
Based on the premise that thoughts, feelings and the experience of self are expressed through the body and movement. Dance/Movement Therapy (DMT) is a relational process that integrates emotional, cognitive, physical and social aspects of self.
Elements of dance are applied as a framework for exploration, discovery, learning and change. DMT focuses on movement behaviour as it emerges in the therapeutic relationship, and simultaneously serves as a means of assessment and a mode of intervention.
Dance/Movement Therapy Session (50 min.)
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Resources
Engaging the body can provide a valuable source of information when assessing & processing experiences. Take a look at one of the many ways dance & movement can be applied in a therapeutic context as I explore shifting states through movement.
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