more About my Services & Approaches
Services
The work I do sits in three places: with women whose hormones are rewriting the rules they live by, with people carrying the weight of something that happened to them inside a hospital, and with athletes whose bodies and identities are mid-recalibration. Different doors. Same depth of work.
The work I do sits in three places: with women whose hormones are rewriting the rules they live by, with people carrying the weight of something that happened to them inside a hospital, and with athletes whose bodies and identities are mid-recalibration. Different doors. Same depth of work.
Hormonal Health & Life Transitions
You’ve been told it’s anxiety. You’ve been told it’s burnout. You’ve tried the medication, the meditation, the self-care. But something shifted in your body and nobody’s talking about what’s actually happening. You’re not losing your mind, your hormones are rewriting the rules, and you deserve a clinician who understands both the biology and the identity disruption that comes with it.
Medical Trauma
The phrase clients use most when they describe medical trauma isn’t “I was harmed.” It’s “I wasn’t believed.” The appointment where you knew something was wrong and were told you were overreacting. The birth where your voice got overridden. The diagnostic journey took years because the first five clinicians thought it was anxiety. What that does to the nervous system is not the same as a single traumatic event, and it doesn’t respond the same in treatment.
Athletes
I’m one of approximately five clinicians in Canada holding the IOC Diploma in Mental Health in Elite Sport. The work with athletes sits differently than most private practice work, concussion recovery, return-to-play anxiety, the pressure of being the person everybody’s betting on, and the question that gets missed most often: who you are when the career ends.
If something here named you and you didn’t expect it to, that’s the work. Whether the door says hormonal, medical, or athletic, the underlying clinical method is the same.
Approaches & Methods:
Trauma-Informed Therapy
EMDR, somatic and polyvagal-informed trauma work, and Critical Incident Debriefing. Depth work, not coping skills, the goal is to process what the nervous system has been carrying, not to manage around it.
Nervous System Regulation
Trauma lives in the body before it lives in the story. Polyvagal-informed work that addresses the patterns you can't think your way out of hypervigilance, shutdown, the racing heart at the kitchen table.
Somatic & Body-Based Work
The body keeps the score and holds the route out. Somatic trauma work treats the physical layer as data, not as something to override.
Cognitive & Behavioural Tools
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and CBT-informed strategies for the patterns a cognitive frame can shift; the loops, the rules you didn't know you'd written for yourself, the gap between what you value and how you're spending the day.
Performance & Resilience Counselling
For athletes and high performers, concussion recovery, return-to-play anxiety, the pressure of being the person everybody's betting on, and post-sport identity. Anchored by my IOC Diploma in Mental Health in Elite Sport.
Who I Work With
Who I Work With
The work I do sits with people who've been carrying something they can't quite put down. Some of it has a name. A lot of it doesn't.
Trauma & Nervous System Patterns
The hypervigilance, the shutdown, the racing heart at the dinner table, the looping thoughts that don't respond to reason. Trauma lives in the nervous system before it lives in the story, and that's the layer the work has to reach.
Medical trauma & treatment journeys
The appointment where you knew something was wrong and weren't believed. The birth that didn't go the way it was supposed to. The ICU stay, the surgery, the years of being told it was anxiety. Trauma that happened inside care is its own category, and it doesn't respond to single-event treatment models.
Hormonal changes across the lifespan
The unravelling nobody warned you about. Perimenopause, menopause, postpartum, the cumulative weight of midlife. Mood, identity, sleep, patience, the body that isn't running the rules it used to. Hormonal transition is a neurological event, not a phase.
Fertility, pregnancy loss & reproductive grief
The trying, the waiting, the treatments, the loss. The grief that sits underneath a calendar of appointments. The emotional weight that nobody knows quite how to ask about, including the partner sitting next to you.
Athletes & high performers
Concussion recovery, return-to-play anxiety, the pressure of being the person everybody's betting on, and the question of who you are when the jersey comes off. Anchored by the IOC Diploma in Mental Health in Elite Sport.
Stress, burnout & the people running everything for everyone
Caregivers, leaders, parents, the ones whose calendars are full of other people's needs. When the system that's been holding everyone else up starts giving out, the work isn't time management. It's underneath that.
Anxiety that won't quiet down
The on-edge baseline. The relentless worry. The version of anxiety that's a nervous-system pattern, not a mindset. The kind that EMDR and somatic work reach in ways that talk-therapy alone often doesn't.
Life transitions
Grief, separation, family changes, health changes, the move you didn't see coming, the identity that won't fit anymore. Recognition that something has shifted is enough. You don't have to know what to call it yet.
If something here named you and you didn't expect it to, that's the work. Book a free 15-minute consultation.
Philosophy & Testimonials
Healing requires safety, compassion, and connection. My role is to walk beside you—not push, pressure, or rush. I believe in going at a pace that honours your body, your history, and your readiness.
You are the expert of your experience. My job is to help you understand it, create space for it, and develop the tools to move forward from a grounded and empowered place.
“I finally understand my nervous system. Kim helped me make sense of reactions I thought I’d never get control over.”
Client, Age 38
“Kim created a space where I felt safe for the first time in years. I didn’t know therapy could feel like this.”
Client, Age 29
“As an athlete, I always felt pressure to be ‘fine.’ Working with Kim gave me space to breathe, heal, and actually understand myself.”
Client, Athlete
