Welcome to Living Clarity
Where we Create Chemistry with Life
Working with Me
Where we Meet
I offer virtual psychotherapy across Ontario through Jane, the platform I use for online booking and video sessions. Jane emails you a link before your appointment so you can join from a quiet, private space. If you’re outside Ontario, please get in touch so I can confirm whether I can offer sessions where you’re located.
Equine-assisted therapy takes place at Horse Discovery in Millbrook, Ontario. I also offer occasional in-person psychotherapy appointments on the Danforth in Toronto.
If you're new to Living Clarity, please email me directly to arrange a consultation call. Once your Jane client profile is set up, you can book therapy sessions through Jane or by emailing me directly
What I Help With
I work with adults navigating chronic anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and complex trauma.
You might feel caught in cycles of worry, intrusive thoughts, checking, or reassurance-seeking. You might find yourself on alert, shutting down when things feel overwhelming, or noticing that past experiences still shape how you feel in relationships. Sometimes you can see a pattern clearly and still feel pulled back into it.
Together, we’ll make sense of what’s happening and identify what you’d like to change, both in your day-to-day life and in the patterns you keep coming up against.
How I work
Getting to know you and making a plan
In the first few sessions, we’ll get to know each other and begin building trust. We’ll talk about what brings you to therapy, how it affects your life now, and what you’d like to be different. From there, we’ll build a plan together and decide which approaches fit your goals.
Building skills and resources
We’ll develop tools you can use in daily life, such as noticing what happens when you feel overwhelmed, finding ways to steady yourself, and practising different responses to familiar situations. We can return to these tools at any point in our work.
Trauma reprocessing and healing patterns
We’ll pay attention to what’s happening in your life now and explore earlier experiences where they’re relevant. When it fits your goals and we agree the timing is right, we may use approaches such as EMDR or Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) to work with distressing experiences that continue to affect you.
Reviewing progress and preparing to finish
Along the way, we’ll check in about what’s changing and adjust the plan as needed. As we approach the end of therapy, we’ll take time to look back at what’s shifted, what helped, and what you want to carry forward.
Areas of Focus
Chronic Anxiety & Overwhelm
Anxiety can show up as persistent worry, difficulty switching off, or a body that feels braced even when you’re trying to rest. You might find yourself over-preparing, putting off decisions, or avoiding situations that feel overwhelming. Anxiety can feel like a steady undercurrent of worry across many areas of life, or it can come on intensely in specific situations, such as meeting new people or speaking up in a group.
We’ll start with stabilization and resourcing, building practical skills you can use when anxiety rises. I may draw on grounding, mindfulness, and somatic techniques to help you notice early signs of tension and practise ways to steady yourself.
As we get to know your patterns, I may draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed parts work to explore what a worried or protective part of you is trying to do for you. We may also use clinical hypnosis to practise new ways of responding to familiar triggers, if that approach feels right for you.
If earlier experiences are relevant to what you’re working on, we can explore how they relate to your anxiety today. When trauma reprocessing fits your goals and we agree the timing is right, we can incorporate it into our work.
Complex Trauma & PTSD
You might find yourself on alert even in familiar settings, feel overwhelmed by reminders of what happened, or notice that it’s hard to trust or feel close to others. You may also experience dissociation, such as feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings.
We begin with stabilization and resourcing. Together, we’ll identify what tends to bring on these responses and build practical ways to stay present and manage distress.
As we get to know your patterns, we’ll explore what happens in your body and in your relationships when you feel on guard, shut down, or disconnected. I may draw on relational somatic techniques or Internal Family Systems (IFS)–informed parts work to help you understand these protective responses and notice when they come up today.
When trauma reprocessing fits your goals and we agree the timing is right, I may draw on EMDR or Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) to work with distressing experiences that continue to affect you. We’ll check in along the way and adjust the pace together.
OCD
I begin by helping you recognize the cycle of intrusive thoughts, distress, and compulsions. This can include magical thinking, such as feeling that you need to repeat a phrase or do something in a specific order to prevent an unrelated bad outcome.
We focus first on building practical skills for responding to doubt and urges to check, seek reassurance, mentally review, or repeat a ritual. As we get to know your patterns, we’ll look closely at what happens between an intrusive thought and the urge to check, seek reassurance, or repeat a ritual. Together, we’ll explore what feels at stake in those moments, how seeking certainty can bring short-term relief, and where you can practise using the skills we’ve built.
As we continue using those skills, we may explore how past experiences, including trauma, relate to what you're experiencing now. If trauma reprocessing fits your goals and we agree the timing is right, we can incorporate it into our work together.