Open to the possibility of making the world
a little wiser through your life.
Open to the possibility of making the world a little wiser through your life.
We are beautifully complex and highly contextual beings — in any given session, you and I may work on or between multiple levels of human experience: societal, intergenerational, interpersonal, inter-species/land, and individual. The most effective inner work includes embodiment in the here and now as a key to developing presence, health and balance.
Whether I am working with couples, individuals or groups, you will be supported to thrive in your life through healing, maturation, restoration of reciprocal relationships, and the practice of real contact -- these elements are at the core of my work, within a long and wide eco-psychological-spiritual view.
One on One Therapy
At its roots, psychotherapy means “tending to the soul”.
We live in an epidemic of loneliness where people are constantly overwhelmed with the complexity of the world and its contradictions. It is commonplace among us to experience varying degrees of separateness, and real and imagined threat. We long for contact and connection, and – although we are designed for connection – many of us lack the healthy imprint, awareness, and skills to know how, especially when things get tough. Some of the most ‘highly successful’ among us have the deepest wounds and feel most defended and isolated. People want fast and easy ways to feel better, but to stabilize the calmness, presence and competency we long for, we need direct experience with the help of wise guidance and skillful practices over time.
Individual therapy & coaching allows for private, one-on-one depth and challenge with the reliability of a skilled and trustable guide and ally. With or without a background of pronounced trauma, our hyper-paced, materialistic, capitalistic society can keep us in states of chronic stress. Untended acute or developmental trauma without good enough supports sets us up for enormous suffering.
Get the relational support you need to move out of stuck and patterned states, and into embodied states of presence, safety, connection, and trust. I can meet with you online, or in-person, either in a nature-based space or in an office environment. My office is currently in Fernwood Square in Victoria BC.
Couples Therapy
“The quality of your life ultimately depends on the quality of your relationships.”
— Ester Perel
The more aware we are, the more intimate with ourselves we can become, the more effectively we can live a relational and wakeful life. I will help you identify and cut through stuck patterns, untended injuries, and unfinished business with warmth, clarity and precision, so that you can stop looping and start experiencing relief, appreciation, direction, and real movement toward what you want to create in your life.
I can help you to :
- level up your ability to work with differences, challenge and conflict,
- move through cycles of harmony, disharmony, and repair,
- tend to the grief for what you have lost or never had,
- address the patterns that are hijacking your relationship,
- become more fluid and capable with emotional states like confusion, joy, sadness, frustration,
- learn how to repair -- make good apologies and accept apologies,
- get back to the synergy that is available as a couple, to be encouraging rather than discouraging to each other.
I also offer Couples Intensives: learn more here.
I can meet with you online, in my office in Fernwood, Victoria BC, or outside with the horses in Saanichton, 20 minutes from Victoria, or a combination of all three.
Equine Therapy
“Horses are big enough, strong enough and fluid enough to help us repair and transform with safe touch, rhythm and a desire for relationship without prejudice."
— Duey Freeman, MA LPC,
Founder of the Gestalt Equine Institute of the Rockies
Equine psychotherapy takes inner work into the wild arena of physicality, archetypal beauty, instinct, sensuality, strength and freedom. With horses, we have the opportunity to develop moment-to-moment awareness, physical and emotional balance, embodied power, and energetic clarity and softness.
I work in two beautiful locations with phenomenal horses; both locations are in Saanichton, which borders the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island. I love to offer extended sessions and depth-work intensives with individuals, couples, families, and groups. (see Intensive Retreats).
Workshops & Intensives
ECUADOR: Womens+ Intensive Retreat: 7-day In-Person land-based depth-work experience
Uncover and transform the patterns that prevent you from being in your utmost integrity in the potency of the Ecuadorian mountains, jungles, and rivers.
TWO RETREATS UPCOMING:
Dates: Oct 18-Oct 26, 2026 AND Mar 7- Mar 14, 2027
3 DAY HORSE & LAND IMMERSION
Whether you’re seeking to address anxiety, tend to unfinished business, work with traumatic patterns, find more emotional and energetic balance, get closer to your intuitive self, build embodied self-confidence, or simply find peace in a hectic world, our intentional time together on the land and with horses will support and enrich your growth, healing, and wellbeing. This land-based intensive weaves together the healing and enlivening presence of horses in a transformative container of natural beauty, skillful guidance, self-discovery, direct experience, and growth.
NEXT DATE: April 17-19 2026