Clinical Supervision
Helping you create a sustainable practice that is meaningful for your professional and personal growth.
Meet your Clinical Supervisor
I wholeheartedly believe that there’s no such thing as a “master therapist”. I would like to think that pioneers like Carl Rogers and Irvin Yalom needed clinical supervision as well. Psychotherapy is a unique science and sometimes it is difficult to explain how therapy even works – but you’ve been there, it works, and it feels like magic. Tell you what – I don’t think it’s magic. I think it’s more explainable than that.
We are constantly learning and growing in our personal lives. If we embrace the humility of the human experience, we can build human connections that are healing and therapeutic. My overarching approach to clinical supervision is to provide clinicians with a safer place to process the complex experience of being a human being that is helping other people through their human processes. Clinical supervision is an extension of clinical practice; and as such, my approach in clinical supervision is informed by my practice in clinical work as a psychotherapist. I take the lenses of trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and feminist theories to inform my approach to building and sustaining therapeutic relationships and informing therapeutic change.
I enjoy working with therapists who are open to deep introspection and reflection of their self-as-therapist identity. I encourage my supervisees to reflect on how transference, countertransference, SEUS, self-disclosure, intersectionality, and Imposter’s Syndrome inevitably show up and impact our clinical work.
Our work will be a collaborative process where we will explore what it means for you to:
- Develop a strong therapeutic relationship with your clients
- Critically conceptualize cases through therapeutic theories that resonate with you
- Implement psychotherapy skills and techniques to support meaningful change
- Define your ever-evolving professional identity
- I am a member in “good standing” with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO) as a Registered Psychotherapist (#8688) authorized for independent practice with at least five years’ extensive clinical experience.
- I completed my supervision training with Pauline O’Brien, RP, in her “The Empowered Supervisor” course. This course offers over 30 hours of directed learning and provides teachings in foundational clinical supervision along with teachings on culturally sensitive, intersectional and trauma-informed lenses.
- I have extensive experience providing clinical supervision and peer mentorship to clinical interns in a group private practice setting for 4 years. In addition, I mentored a group of Counselling Psychology students at the University of Ottawa while they practiced their clinical skills in mock counselling sessions during my internship.
- I was formerly an Ontario Certified Teacher and completed my Master of Teaching at the University of Toronto (OISE). Though I did not spend much time teaching in public secondary schools, I have 3 years of experience teaching various courses at Algonquin College’s Academic Upgrading Program.
- Master of Education in Counselling Psychology with the University of Ottawa
- Canadian Certified Counsellor with Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
- Over 5 years of extensive clinical experience working with individuals from ages 14 and up on a variety of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, identity development, relationship issues, and work stress/burnout.
- Theoretical approach integrates various client-centered third-wave psychotherapy theories including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Compassion-Focused Therapy. I have training in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and use the underlying theories to inform my approach.
- Extensive experience working in private practice settings and worked in a post-secondary institution during my clinical training.
- Completed “5-Day Intensive EMDR Training: Integrating EMDR into your Clinical Practice”.
- Completed “3-Day DBT Certification Training”
- Attended “IFS Immersion: Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Across Clinical Applications Course”.
- Completed “Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)” through LivingWorks and trained with Kids Help Phone Crisis Text Line as a Crisis Responder.
Want To Dig Deep?
Clinical Supervision is a partnership. Send me a message to book a consultation and see if we’re a good fit!
