My name is Elizabeth and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (#15306) and psychotherapist with experience both in private practice and in non-profit community services with a broad range of clientele. I specialize in areas of acute and developmental trauma, addictions, healthy body image development and eating disorder prevention, as well as issues related to intersectionality and identity. 

From a trauma-informed and relationally-centred approach, I seek to create trusting and allowing spaces for clients to really open up and be with their tough stuff in a safe, therapeutic environment. I believe in the process of transformative and healing connection. To that end, I offer caring, attuned support along with clinical dexterity and a wide range of professional expertise vital for shifting patterns of stuckness and pursuing new horizons of healing. I believe that it is important for the therapeutic process to be premised on the implicit, intuitive wisdom of clients, drawing upon their internal sense of vision and desire for well-being; thus, when given the opportunity to have a glimpse into clients' lives, I work to support them in uncovering who they truly are, how they feel and how they love. Ultimately, it is my hope to come alongside clients as they journey from loneliness to connectedness; from fear and numbness to peace and presence; from a sense of deficiency to the experience of wholeness; from an inner void to a felt sense of embodiment; from the loss of essence to regaining essential qualities such as love, joy, strength, courage, and confidence.

I graduated with a Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western University. Prior to that, I studied both Psychology and International Social Welfare at Simon Fraser University. From an academic standpoint, I draw on a background in philosophy, literary studies, and global development, and have researched topics which include feminist research praxis, voice and embodied personhood, spirituality, gender and sexuality, trauma and dissociation, ontological underpinnings of healing and wholeness, cross-cultural applications of psychotherapeutic practice, and community health. I am also a contributing author to “Embodiment and Eating Disorders: Theory, Research, Prevention and Treatment”.

At a clinical level, I have trained in a variety of research-informed therapeutic modalities including Lifespan Integration Therapy, Observed and Experiential Integration Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, (RO) Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, and Existential Analysis, a phenomenological, person-centred approach to psychotherapy developed by Alfried Längle. I gravitate to integrated, experiential modalities that foster creativity, compassion, and embodiment as a part of connection. I am currently in training for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Trauma Sensitive Yoga as an adjunctive treatment for complex trauma and PTSD. These will both be offered beginning in the Spring of 2024. 

If you are interested in participating in counselling services uniquely tailored to your specific goals, please contact me for further information and/or for booking an appointment.