Couple Therapy
Relationships develop in context—child development, family systems, and economic, social, and structural forces that can limit or cultivate connection. Our work together will be discovering how your contexts have shaped where you are in this moment and how to shift into patterns that emphasize relationality. This approach helps couples address common challenges across the relationship span: difficulties in hearing each other and communicating, in knowing ourselves, forming shared goals, creating opportunities to play, managing expectations, equalizing power dynamics, having different connection styles, and developing and maintaining intimacy.
What to Expect
- Through my electronic practice portal Owl Practice, you will each review complete and intake forms before your first session.
- Your first session will be 75 minutes. Subsequent sessions will be 50 minutes.
- In our first session, we’ll focus on getting to know each other while we work to understand your needs, discuss what brought you to therapy, and identify challenges and any goals.
- Most people find coming to therapy every two weeks helpful as a starting point, but we’ll work together to find what best matches your needs.
- Virtual sessions will be held via Owl Practice.
- Clients and therapist communication outside of practice will also be held in Owl Practice.
- I don’t communicate with one partner individually except for logistic reasons (like setting up a setting) or with express consent of the other partner.
- Fees for the first session are $175. Fees for subsequent sessions is $150.
- Many insurance companies in Ontario cover psychotherapy. Please check with your insurance provider to make sure they cover psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying).
- You will receive and pay invoices and get receipts through Owl Practice. Payment is due on the day of the session.
- You will receive and pay invoices and get receipts through Owl Practice. Payment is due on the day of the session.
- If a session is cancelled with less than 48 hours notice, the full fee may be charged. Virtual sessions are an option if there is a logistics problem with a scheduled in-person session (like childcare, illness, transportation).
- Good therapy needs time, and if you are more than 15 minutes late, this isn’t possible. The session will need to be rescheduled and the full fee will apply.
I am a licensed Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Kingston, Ontario.
A poet, philosophy lover, and constant beneficiary of the steadying power of nature, I walk the path alongside clients as a practical guide. Therapy is conducted from a relational perspective through RLT, existential, bibliotherapy, logotherapy, person-centered ACT, IFS, trauma, and narrative therapies alongside a smattering of CBT and DBT. I am currently taking extra therapist certification training in Relational Life Therapy.
I have a special interest in working with people experiencing Complex Trauma.
As a published poet with BAs in History and English, an MA in English, and an MFA in Creative Writing, I bring a love of poetry, the more-than-human world, and philosophy into the therapy room
With over 20 years of experience as a yoga teacher, I hold specialized training in living with chronic pain, deep rest, and restorative yoga.
The mother of 3, I live in a busy household with my kids, spouse, and 4 pets.