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Services
Whatever brought you here, you're welcome in this work. With women whose hormones are rewriting the rules they live by. With patients and families living with a serious diagnosis. With parents whose child's diagnosis rewrote what "normal" means. With people learning to carry a loss that doesn't go away on a schedule. With athletes whose bodies and identities are mid-recalibration. Different doors. Same depth of care.
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 & Complex Diagnosis. A diagnosis like cancer doesn't just change a body; it changes a life, and it changes the lives orbiting around it. The day everything before gets sorted into "before the diagnosis" and "after." The treatment, the scans, the waiting for results, the version of yourself that has to learn to live in a body that now feels unfamiliar or unreliable. And alongside the patient, the partner, the parent, the adult child, watching someone they love go through it, carrying their own fear quietly so they can stay steady for someone else. Both of these are the work. Neither has to carry it alone.
Pediatric Medical Needs. Parent & Caregiver Support: Nobody prepares you for the version of parenting where the hospital becomes a second home. The diagnosis that rewrote your child's future, and yours, in the same sentence. The grief that has nowhere to go because your child is still here, still needs you steady, while some version of who you thought they'd be has already been lost. You're holding appointments, advocacy, other people's discomfort with the conversation, and your own fear, often without anyone asking how you're doing. This is support built for the parent carrying it.
Grief & Loss Grief that doesn't move in stages. Grief with no body to bury, or one you weren't ready to. The loss that isn't socially recognized, the kind people expect you to have processed by now. Anticipatory grief, the kind that starts before the loss does. Grief sitting underneath a diagnosis, a divorce, a death, a departure. This work doesn't rush you toward acceptance. It makes room for grief to be exactly as complicated as it actually is.
Athletes, I'm one of approximately 5 clinicians in Canada who hold 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, illness, pediatric, grief, or athletic, the underlying clinical method is the same.
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 & Complex Diagnosis. A diagnosis like cancer doesn't just change a body; it changes a life, and it changes the lives orbiting around it. The day everything before gets sorted into "before the diagnosis" and "after." The treatment, the scans, the waiting for results, the version of yourself that has to learn to live in a body that now feels unfamiliar or unreliable. And alongside the patient, the partner, the parent, the adult child, watching someone they love go through it, carrying their own fear quietly so they can stay steady for someone else. Both of these are the work. Neither has to carry it alone.
Pediatric Medical Needs. Parent & Caregiver Support: Nobody prepares you for the version of parenting where the hospital becomes a second home. The diagnosis that rewrote your child's future, and yours, in the same sentence. The grief that has nowhere to go because your child is still here, still needs you steady, while some version of who you thought they'd be has already been lost. You're holding appointments, advocacy, other people's discomfort with the conversation, and your own fear, often without anyone asking how you're doing. This is support built for the parent carrying it.
Grief & Loss Grief that doesn't move in stages. Grief with no body to bury, or one you weren't ready to. The loss that isn't socially recognized, the kind people expect you to have processed by now. Anticipatory grief, the kind that starts before the loss does. Grief sitting underneath a diagnosis, a divorce, a death, a departure. This work doesn't rush you toward acceptance. It makes room for grief to be exactly as complicated as it actually is.
Athletes, I'm one of approximately 5 clinicians in Canada who hold 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, illness, pediatric, grief, 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
However you found your way here, you're welcome in this work. The people I sit with are 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.
Living with serious illness, & the people who love them The diagnosis that split life into before and after. Cancer, chronic illness, anything that came with a treatment plan and an uncertain timeline. Support for the person living it, and for the partner, parent, or family member carrying their own fear while trying to stay strong for someone else. You don't have to be the patient for this to be your grief too.
Parents & caregivers of children with medical needs The diagnosis that became the new center of the family. The grief for the childhood, or the future, that looks different now. The exhaustion of being the calm one in every room you walk into. This grief is real even though, and especially because, your child is still here.
Grief & loss in its many forms Death, yes. But also the losses that don't get a funeral: the relationship that ended, the body that changed, the future you'd planned for that isn't happening, the version of yourself you're grieving. Grief that arrives early, before the loss is final. Grief that arrives late, long after everyone expected you to be "over it."
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 Separation, family 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.
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
