My complicated and roundabout journey towards becoming a psychotherapist has been life-long. Here’s what this path has looked like so far:

• was an eager student in the academic world as a specialized psychology major at York University with focus on personality psychology and neuropsychology

• dropped out of post-graduate psychology studies to shift gears and became an emergency first responder, where responding to acute mental health crisis calls in the community became a passion

• returned back to the academic world and became a mental health nurse, again preferring acute emergency department presentations

• back to academics a third time to finish off where I had started in post-graduate psychology studies, focusing on PTSD and complex trauma

• pursued additional training in EMDR, Internal Family Systems, CBT, and DBT

• typically work with people struggling with PTSD, complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, dissociative symptoms, first responders, and veterans