My connection to this work is personal, too. My own experiences with trauma and PTSD changed the way I understand healing and gave me a deep respect for the ways we adapt, protect ourselves and find our way forward.

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I’ve always been drawn to creative ways of making sense of experience. I’m a visual artist, and my training in expressive arts therapy gave language to something I had already experienced firsthand ~ sometimes we understand something through an image, movement, sensation or something we create before we can put it into words.

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My work has also been deeply influenced by Peter Levine and the Somatic Experiencing® tradition. I’ve had the opportunity to learn within that teaching lineage and to meet Peter personally. His work has shaped how I think about trauma, the nervous system and our capacity for change.

Outside the counselling room, I find restoration in nature, creativity and my connection with animals ~ especially dogs and horses. I’m endlessly curious about people: what shapes us, what we carry, and what allows something new to become possible.