I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Registered Marriage & Family Therapist, with a doctorate in psychology and a master’s in clinical counselling and marriage and family therapy. I’ve been in practice in Langley since 2009, and I see clients in person at our office, just off Highway 1 at 200 Street, and online across BC.

Since opening the practice, I’ve spent well over 20,000 hours with individuals and couples, on a wide range of issues: relationship and couples struggles, trauma and PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, burnout, and the particular pressures first responders carry. I’ve trained in a number of approaches for both individual and couples work, which lets me match the way we work to you, rather than the other way around.

My approach is both exploratory and practical. We usually start with what’s happening in your life right now, using that as a way to better understand the deeper feelings and patterns that may be underneath. When something comes up in a session, we work with it in the moment. As these underlying dynamics begin to shift, new perspectives and possibilities often emerge, which can lead to meaningful changes in how you feel, relate to others, and navigate everyday life.

Starting counselling can feel daunting, whether it’s your first time or you’ve been before, and that’s completely normal. If you’d like to talk before booking a session, the free 15-minute phone or video call below is for exactly that.

More personally, I’ve been married to Kristen since 2001 and have two children. I grew up in Vanderhoof in Northern BC, and I’m drawn to the outdoors: hiking, skiing, camping, or out on my motorcycle.

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I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor, and I see clients online across BC through Vista Counselling. I have a Master’s in Counselling from Trinity Western University and a Master’s of Social Work from UBC, and I’ve been an RCC since 2003.

Much of my early career was spent with women and children who had experienced family violence. It showed me how resilient people can be, even in the middle of a hard season, and how much difference the right support at the right time can make. Today I work with individuals and couples on anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, boundaries, attachment and parenting struggles, identity and self-worth, relationship concerns, and the significant life changes and losses that can affect a person’s sense of self.

Everyone’s starting point is different. Some people are trying to get back to a steadiness they once had; many are discovering their own resilience for the first time. Either way, I don’t work from a single method. Depending on what brings you in and how you tend to process things, I draw on a range of approaches, and for trauma I also use Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI), a gentle, body-aware approach developed here in BC. In practice these overlap, and we’ll work out together what fits you.

If you’re new to counselling, the first session is mostly about getting to know what you’re dealing with and what’s been going on for you. Nothing has to be figured out beforehand. From there we agree on what you want to be different and how we’ll get there, and we check in on that as we go.

When I’m not with clients, I’m probably working on a puzzle, baking bread with my sons, or watching historical documentaries with them.

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