Like many therapists, I first came to the mental health field as a client. My own healing path has involved reckonings with my racial identity as a mixed-race person, late-diagnosed neurodivergence, chronic illness, queerness, and life as a musician and creative, anti-capitalist human. As is the case for many of us, I spent years ignoring signs about my own capacity, and inadvertently and unknowingly harming myself while trying to succeed in a system that wasn’t made for people like me.

I now strive to take a humanity-honouring approach in both my personal life and my work - one which recognizes that we all have differing and fluctuating needs, wants, abilities, and capacities. That each of us is valid, each of us has a complex history that has shaped us, and no one is disposable. This approach, for me, is inseparable from the knowing that we all exist in the context of societal and institutional systems that shape our beliefs around who is valid, and around our relationships to each other and to ourselves. My aim is always to look at the many ways that the personal and institutional spheres weave in and out of each other continuously.

I bring my institutional learnings as well as lived experience to my work as a therapist. I am a graduate of the Toronto Institute for Relational Psychotherapy (TIRP), and a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). My pre-therapy career experience includes language teaching and supporting newcomers to Canada. I love a good book, a great concert, and walking around the city’s neighbourhoods, especially when a bakery is involved.