Specialties & Competencies
As a human and a therapist, I often describe myself as “knowing a little bit about a lot of things,” which is a natural consequence of my being a self-proclaimed social science nerd. My breadth of knowledge and interest allows me to be open, affirming, and supportive of many experiences that can too often be considered obscure, embarrassing, and/or taboo. In an effort to create a space of truly informed, enthusiastic, and ongoing consent to entering a therapeutic relationship, I want to share some of my more specific areas of knowledge and interest. This is in no way an exhaustive list, and I am permanently open to learning more about an experience and/or identity so that I may integrate the knowledge with my clinical practice and experience.
To be clear, however, while I know about many categorical experiences and am affirming even more, I know nothing at all about YOUR experiences! You may share commonalities with many categories of person and/or experience, but my knowledge is only as useful as it is useful to YOU. All of this to say: Please feel free to explore what I have listed below, and do not hesitate to reach out with any further questions.
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Contemporary Feminist Narrative Therapy
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Anti-Oppressive & Anti-Colonial Social Work Practice
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Consent and Bodily Autonomy Based Sex Therapy
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Support for Queer and/or Trans folks​
Specializing in...
Affirming of...
BODILY AUTONOMY​​​
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Fat body liberation and/or body neutrality
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Disability liberation
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Racialized liberation
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Sex work and sex workers liberation
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Medical Assistance in dying (MAiD)
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Abortion
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Harm reduction/substance use
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QUEER INDENTITIES
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Natural supports for queer and trans youth (i.e. supporting parents as they support queer and trans young people in their lives)
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2SLGBTQIA+ Identities and attractions
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Polyamory and/or open relationships
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SEX AND SEXUALITY
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Kink and kink dynamics
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Polyamory/open relationships
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Group sex
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Solo sex
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Consumption of ethical pornography
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Relating to Talk-Therapy/Narrative Therapy
GRIEF AND LOSS
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Medical assistance in dying (MAiD): planning for death, supporting a loved one planning for death, stress around unpredictable access to MAiD, planning for age appropriate conversations with children around MAiD, stress from being at risk of losing capacity to consent to MAiD, grief following a MAiD death, …
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Loss in childhood, and childhood grief: planning for age appropriate conversations around death and dying, stress from supporting a child or children in a time of grief, …
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Complicated grief
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Grief not related to death, such as grief from divorce, from infertility, from missed opportunities, ...
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​INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS (romantic, plutonic, professional, etc.)
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Changes to relationship after becoming a parent or parents
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Relationship insecurity and/or insecure attachment
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Relationship changes following infidelity
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Influence of past relationships on present relationships
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Transitioning from romantic to plutonic relationship or vice versa
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Family role planning, negotiating, or renegotiating
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Discovering or rediscovering sexual capability and/or interest
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Relationship changes that come from gender transition of one or more partners
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Conflict navigation
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Compulsory monogamy
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IDENTITY​
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Queer experiences: Pressures of compulsory heterosexuality, anti-queer abuse and bullying, queer- phobias and erasures, coming out in mid- or late- adulthood, …
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Trans experiences: Coming-out planning, trans phobia, stress around questions of being trans “enough”/societal expectations placed on trans folks, …
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Women’s experiences: misogyny, misogynoir, intersection of racism and misogyny, stresses of working motherhood, gendered roles and expectations, …
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Non-binary experiences: Stress from navigating a binary gendered world, coming out planning, stress around questions of being non-binary “enough”/societal expectations placed on non-binary people, …
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Masculinity/men’s experiences
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Structural oppression and/or “minority stress”
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Racism and/or stresses forced upon those who hold a racialized identity
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Coming out as queer while in a hetero-passing relationship
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TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES
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Sexual assault
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Childhood sexual abuse
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Out-of-control sexual behaviour/sex add
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Intimate partner violence
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Family violence
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Emotional and/or psychological abuse
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Family and/or intimate partner abuse related to queer and/or trans identities
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Bullying (being bullied, and/or having bullied others)
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Trauma related to siblings
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Trauma related to pregnancy loss and/or infertility
Relating to Sex and/or Relationship Therapy
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Sexuality after sexual assault or sexual violation
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Low- or no- sex drive or sexual desire
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Mis-matched sex drive or sexual desire
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Treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction (TESD)
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Claiming or reclaiming sexuality from religious shame (especially as related to Purity Culture)
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Consent to sex, sexuality, and varied expressions of eroticism
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Sexuality and neuro- and/or cognitive- diversity
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Racism, abuse, and/or unethical practices in kink relationships, dynamics, or scenes