Our Psychologists

Hello and Welcome to Ferndale Psychology!

I did my undergraduate training in English and Psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where I graduated with distinction in 2001. I received my MA in 2003 and PhD in 2008 in Clinical Psychology from Western University in London, Ontario, where my research was focused on parent-child attachment and trauma. In graduate school I learned many attachment coding systems based on observable behaviour and am a certified reliable Adult Attachment Interview coder. I trained in many settings (clinics, hospitals, schools) and for a dozen years before entering private practice, I worked as a clinical psychologist at Western University. There, I trained future clinicians, provided individual therapy to students and developed and ran the Mindfulness Meditation programs, including 8-week Mindfulness Meditation groups based on Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR program, a Healing Through Movement group based on training I received in trauma sensitive yoga, and a Mindful Parent group. I have had my own personal mindfulness and yoga practice for over 20 years. In my final years at Western, I was the therapist on the Trans Care team at Health and Wellness.

I am licensed with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario as a Clinical and Counselling Psychologist to work with children, adolescents, adults and families. I engage in regular training and further education to keep up-to-date with my practices.

At Ferndale Psychology I tend to see mainly older adolescents (16+) and adults (up to around age 65) for a personalized and integrative style of individual therapy. I have a special interest in working with parents who are breaking cycles of abuse with their own children. I work with many BIPOC folks and 2SLGBTQIA+ populations. I aim to be trauma-informed, intersectional, affirmative, anti-racist and anti-oppressive.

I am also a clinical supervisor and am an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of Education at Western University. This means on occasion I might have a senior graduate student or Psychologist in Supervised Practice working with me. I am a registered provider of services to the Armed Forces and Veterans through Medavie/Blue Cross, as well as Indigenous peoples through NIHB. I also see a limited number of clients through the WSIB Community Mental Health Program. I have completed specialized training to work with all of the above populations of folks.

I also have the privilege of seeing clients who are located not only in Ontario, but also in several other provinces, such as Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Please feel free to get in touch if you are located somewhere else in Canada to see if provincial regulations allow you to be seen virtually by our practice.

In my spare time, I enjoy travelling, spending time in nature with my family and friends, practicing yoga, walking my dog, hanging out with my cats, and painting.