It’s time to come back to
Self, Vitality, & Life
and still feel far away from yourself
You can look Functional
You go to work. You answer the messages. You show up for the thing. You keep the wheels turning. From the outside, your life may look successful.
But somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling fully connected to yourself.
Many of the women I work with are carrying years of responsibility, survival, caregiving, pressure, grief, or adaptation. Some come from environments where they learned to stay small, stay agreeable, or stay alert. Some have lived through trauma, religious oppression, sexual abuse, estrangement, burnout, or relationships that slowly pulled them away from themselves.
Often, they don’t arrive saying, “I know exactly what’s wrong.”
They arrive saying things like:
“I don’t feel like myself anymore.”
“I don’t even know what I want.”
“I’m exhausted.”
“I feel stuck.”
“I’ve spent so long taking care of everyone else.”
I provide a calm, grounded space where you do not need to perform, minimize yourself, or hold everything together.
A soft place to land
changes what’s possible
One of the things I hear most often is:
“I don’t know why I told you all of that so quickly.”
For most of my life, people have trusted me with difficult things.
I spent years working in emotionally intense environments, including victim services, emergency management, and critical incident stress response. I have sat with people during some of the hardest moments of their lives. What I learned through that work is that many people are carrying far more than anyone realizes.
They are not weak, nor broken. They are often exhausted from ‘just surviving’.
My approach is direct, compassionate, and deeply human. I believe therapy should feel like a real relationship, not a clinical performance. I will not pathologize your coping strategies or shame the ways you learned to get through.
Together, we work toward understanding what your nervous system has been trying to protect, what patterns are no longer serving you, and what it might feel like to come back into your own life again.
Two doorways,
One Direction
Counselling
A space where you can say the actual thing — without worrying about protecting anyone else in the room. I work with people navigating life transitions, trauma, estrangement, and religious or spiritual harm. Those who have been carrying something heavy for a long time and are ready to set it down somewhere safe.
EMDR
Some things don't move through talking alone. EMDR works directly with how the body holds difficult experiences — not just the story of what happened, but the place it still lives. It's precise, it's evidence-based, and it can reach things that years of conversation sometimes can't.
Ready to feel alive again
For when you’re
I work mostly with those who feel disconnected from themselves after years of living in survival mode, carrying too much responsibility, dealing with trauma, caregiving, experiencing burnout, or simply putting everyone else first for too long.
My work integrates traditional counselling with EMDR and nervous system-informed approaches that help the brain and body process experiences that may still feel emotionally “stuck,” even years later.
My clients are thoughtful, capable people. What they are looking for is relief. Clarity. A way to stop living in constant tension, self-abandonment, hypervigilance, or exhaustion.
Through The Looking Glass therapy is collaborative, grounded, and human.
There is room for honesty, humour, grief, directness, and quiet moments where something finally starts making sense.
Start with a brief, free conversation where we can make sure this is a wonderful fit: