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(Or for people whose past therapy didn’t help at all)

Therapy for People Who Hate Therapy

Your last therapy didn't stick. Probably not because you didn't work hard enough. Most therapy is built to be open-ended,  same time, same couch, every week, indefinitely...which sounds supportive until you realize open-ended also means no destination. You can talk about your childhood, your patterns, your feelings about your feelings, for years, and still be standing in the exact same spot, just with better vocabulary for it. That's not healing. In fact, research shows that even though more people are in therapy now than ever before, they're not getting better. Rumination, aka- talking about your problems, makes your problems feel worse. Which is why I do things differently. A short course of treatement, usually six sessions, with an actual endpoint forces a different question: not "how do I understand this," but "what do I do about it." That is where the change and growth actually happens.

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING FOR ADULTS — Mahone Bay, NS

Sometimes the most important work happens one person at a time.

I work with adults navigating:

  • Anxiety and depression, including the kind that's been managed alone for years

  • Relationship transitions: separation, divorce, the end of a long partnership

  • Identity rebuilding after divorce, loss, or major life change

  • Burnout, especially in people who are holding everyone else together

  • Grief: loss of relationships, loved ones, roles, futures that didn't happen

  • The particular mental health weight of being a parent in a difficult family situation

SEPARATION & DIVORCE COUNSELLING — Nova Scotia

For individuals moving through the end of a relationship — not to relitigate it, but to survive it and come out the other side with clarity about who you are and what you want.

We work on:

  • Processing grief, anger, fear, and the complicated mix that is the end of a marriage

  • Identity rebuilding: who are you now, what do you want, what comes next

  • Co-parenting mindset: how to parent well with someone you're no longer in a relationship with

  • Practical emotional support through the legal and logistical chaos of separation and divorce