Hey there. I’m Sabrina.

15 years into clinical work, I couldn’t have predicted how things all would have unfolded thus far. Fresh out of grad school I was unsure about being a therapist in general, but knew that I was pretty determined to work with anything except grief and trauma.

And then, because life has a sense of humour, I became someone who works primarily with grief and trauma. This wasn’t on purpose so much as it is what life – and this work – invited me into. I graduated in 2011 with an M.A. in Counselling, and since then have collected Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and EMDR training, became a Certified EMDR Consultant, did additional studies in grief and bereavement, and have come to realize that the work I am deeply drawn to is what I can best describe as deep self work.

I am naturally curious, deeply attuned to underlying patterns and their function (even if the functionality has long worn off), and I am committed to supporting people in finding out who they are, not who they think they’re supposed to be. I have lots of experience working with neurodivergent folks and absolutely love the creativity required to help imagine new ways of living that accommodate authenticity. I also have a wealth of experience supporting those rebuilding a sense of self after time spent in unhealthy or harmful relationships/systems, and with people navigating the complexity of how to be separate and hold our shape/preferences/boundaries while existing in relationships with others. This includes working extensively with anxiety, depression, anger, grief, single incident and more complex trauma, and all sorts of behaviours we use to soothe and cope with distress. My practice is primarily focused on working with individual, adult clients for both shorter and more long term courses of therapeutic work.

I deeply value safety and connection, and see safety within our own selves and safety in relationship with others as essential to functioning well, and I am far more curious about helping you grow capacity than I am with you being perpetually regulated. I want to support people in being able to handle the full spectrum of being human, which means being able to find the safe enoughness to tolerate both comfort and discomfort, and growing the skills to move in and out of activation/overwhelm/shutdown without getting stuck. I want people to be less afraid of all that it means to be human, and love the opportunity this work provides to dive with clients into the places that we so often want to avoid.

I love possibility more than many, believe wholeheartedly that things can change for the better (all the while holding the reality that life will continue to kick us down from time to time), and consider it a wild privilege to support people in growing more comfortable with the mess and delight of being a person. My goal is not to help you cope with symptoms, or simply think differently about the stuff that’s getting in the way – but rather to help you feel differently about who you are in the world, to help you move with more confidence, compassion, clarity, and a side of appropriate self-responsibility. If genuine curiosity, a little dark humour, and an incessant belief in the goodness of humans feel like things that align for you – I’d love the chance to support you wherever you’re at.