Therapy

*** all sessions are on ZOOM or telephone *** 

Values and Approach

I love supporting queer and trans people to find as much joy, as much agency, as much skill as we can to navigate this broken world. I believe that we have been profoundly shaped by our experiences of childhood, relationship, oppression, privilege, education, work, and love, and that we can work to access more agency in the choices we make moving forwards. 

I believe that individual support is an important part of collective liberation and transformation work, and my work as a therapist is deeply informed not only by my education and ongoing professional development, but also by twenty years of grassroots organizing.  I have a BSW from McGill, and an MSW from the University of Toronto. I am a member in good standing of the OASW and OCSWSSW, and participate regularly in workshops, trainings, peer supervision, and clinical supervision. I am only able to work therapeutically with people who are residents of Ontario.

I am an eclectic relational therapist, blending approaches to suit the needs and relational styles of my clients. I have engaged in training in a variety of modalities such as narrative therapy, TIST (trauma informed stabilization technique), politicized somatics, and emotionally focused couples counselling, and use elements of many of them with my clients. I am always engaged in ongoing professional development and clinical supervision to continue building my skills and capacity in this work.

I welcome clients with non-normative sexual identities and practices, gender identities and expression, family and relationship structures. At the moment I work exclusively with individuals.

I am practiced at supporting folks with whom I share identity and community, and also enjoy working across difference. I’m an intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist striving for anti-racist and anti-carceral practice. Some of the identities I carry with me and claim include: fat, femme, kinky, non-monogamous, queer, genderqueer, Jewish, witch, white settler, survivor.

Fee Structure:  

Full fee is $140 for a 50 minute session. I offer a limited number of reduced fee spaces for therapy, and for these I prioritize trans women, trans femmes, and racialized queer/trans folks. 

Money and Mutual Aid 

To acknowledge the historical and ongoing harm of colonization, and the ways social work as a discipline is complicit or active in colonial violence, I redistribute the equivalent of my professional fees (memberships to the OCSWSSW and OASW) to local Indigenous sovereignty, land defense, or mutual aid efforts. Largely these reparations are paid through individual relationships rather than organizations. This does not erase the harm of colonization, or my complicity in it, but is one mechanism (of many) which encourages me to be in an ongoing conversation with my values and my communities about how to do the work I do accountably.