I am a warm, humorous, down to earth, and empathetic individual, committed to helping you understand
yourself and explore your relationships with others.
My path to becoming a therapist was indirect, to say the least… From childhood, I’d had an interest in psychology, it just took me 20 years to figure out that it was something I could do as a career.
After finishing a BA in philosophy in 2006, I spent most of my 20’s as a musician and making ends meet as a sound technician in the live music and film industries. Once the fun of late nights and being cool wore off, I decided to deepen my knowledge in the field of sound and audio and moved to Scotland to do a Master’s Degree in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh.
I completed the program with honours, but finding work proved more difficult than I anticipated. And so I decided to follow a romantic relationship and move to Germany, where I spent about five years teaching professional English and learning German. It certainly wasn’t the plan, but this one-on-one experience with language clients uncovered my ability to talk to people and help them with their problems. I helped them improve their English a lot, of course, but instead of business terminology, we spent most of the time working on the things they really wanted to talk about: the people in their lives and the personal and professional things they were struggling with.
Once I realized I had a bit of a talent for talking to people, I began a bachelor’s in Psychology at the Technische Universität in Dresden with the intention of eventually becoming a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist. After a year and a half of study, however, I discovered that studying the science of psychology is not the same thing as working with people to help their psychological problems.
And so I pivoted again, and finally in the right direction: psychotherapy. I was also struggling with my own mental health issues at the time and decided that it would be best to start my therapy training at home in Canada.
I began my training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at the Ontario Program for Counseling and Psychotherapy in 2017 and started seeing clients in the fall of 2020. Since then I have been practicing psychotherapy full time and have worked with more than 200 people on all kinds of psychological and emotional issues.
In all of that experience I have learned that as different as we all are, there are a few central things that everybody craves: support, understanding, meaning, and self-esteem. And so these are the things I have built my practice on.
My strength as a therapist is my ability to help people find and feel these things, while also catering to the specific psychological problems like anxiety, depression, obsession, life-transitions, unhealthy relationships, and substance abuse.
My practice has also been greatly influenced by my interests in sociology, physics, spirituality and theology, and art, literature, and music. In addition to therapy, I write and self-publish short articles on various themes in psychology and psychotherapy. Outside of my therapy practice, I am a novelist, and I have a lifelong interest in film and literature. I’m also a bit of a tinkerer, and so I dabble in designing and builing synthesisers and guitar pedals. And, of course, I still make music from time to time.