I am a clinical psychologist who works with adults and couples of all ages, genders, sexual identities, backgrounds, and relationship formats. I offer therapy to two broad groups of people. First, I am passionate about helping individuals through many types of difficult experiences, including anxiety, sadness and depression, emotion dysregulation, stressful life events or transitions, identity development, and relationship strain. Second, I specialize in providing sex therapy to individuals and couples who are experiencing difficulties related to their sex lives (e.g., problems with desire, arousal, erection, orgasm, atypical sexual interests, or non-traditional relationship formats), which may also be related to or impacting their romantic relationships.

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I am also a WPATH trained clinician, meaning I offer Trans Health Readiness assessment services. I can complete assessments and write letters of support for adults (19+) seeking both hormone therapy and gender affirming surgeries.

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My approach to clinical practice involves integrating the best available scientific evidence with my own clinical expertise and each client's values and preferences. I believe that a strong relationship between the therapist and client is the foundation of meaningful change. As such, I take a genuinely warm and empathic approach to understanding my clients. I view each client as the expert on their own life and each initial session as an opportunity to understand the client's perspective. I select evidence-based interventions that fit with the client's worldview, including interventions from diverse therapeutic frameworks (e.g., cognitive behavioural, dialectical behaviour, mindfulness-based, emotionally-focused, motivational, and solutions-focused).

 

 

I am originally from Newfoundland and was trained in Atlantic Canada (Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of New Brunswick, BA (Honours) in Psychology from Memorial University's Grenfell Campus). I have specialized training in evidence-based therapy for sexual concerns and dysfunctions and also have been involved with research related to sexuality (e.g., people's feelings about their genitals, online and text-based sexual activity), which has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Most importantly though, I am firmly dedicated to continued growth and education - I believe in growing along with (and often because of) my clients.

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