About Me

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I became a therapist because I lived the kind of life that makes you understand, from the inside, what it truly means to carry pain.

I grew up navigating significant trauma from a very young age. For a long time, like so many of the clients I now work with, I survived by learning not to feel it. I kept moving, kept pushing forward, and convinced myself I was fine. It wasn’t until my 30s that I finally became honest with myself about how deeply those early experiences had shaped me, the way I saw myself, the way I loved, and the patterns that kept quietly unraveling my closest relationships. I didn’t realize my relationship wasn’t the problem. My unhealed trauma was. Beginning my own deep inner work changed absolutely everything. It was uncomfortable, emotional, and at times incredibly hard, and it was also the most important thing I have ever done for myself.

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Part of my healing journey has also included taking legal action against my abusers, a court process that continues today. I share this not to detail my story, but because if you are navigating your own experience with the legal system as a survivor, I understand that world in a way most therapists simply do not. I know how isolating, exhausting, and complicated it can be, and I bring that understanding with me.

 

I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and my work focuses on trauma, PTSD, and attachment and relational wounds. I am currently training in both Brainspotting and Hypnotherapy, two approaches I am deeply passionate about because they work with the brain and body together, reaching what talk therapy alone sometimes cannot. I am also informed by somatic and nervous system work, polyvagal theory, and vagus nerve healing, because I believe true healing happens when the whole body feels safe, not just the mind.

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Outside of the therapy room, I am a nature lover in every sense of the word. You will find me on dirt roads, near water, in the mountains, tending to my goats, or sitting beside a fire in the bush. A slower, more grounded life is where I found my own healing, and those values show up in how I work with clients. I believe in the nervous system’s capacity to heal. I believe in slowing down. And I believe that the relationship between a client and their therapist is one of the most powerful tools in the entire process.

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The clients I work with matter deeply to me. I think about them. I care about where they are in their journeys, long after our sessions end. Being trusted with someone’s inner world is something I never take lightly, and nothing has ever brought me more purpose than walking alongside someone through the hardest and most transformative chapters of their life.

If any part of this resonates with you, I would genuinely love to connect

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Book your free 15 minute consultation today. It is a relaxed, no pressure conversation to see if we are the right fit, and it might just be the most important call you make this year.

                                                                                               

 

                                                                                         Sincerely,  Amanda ~

 

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