Our Psychologists

Hello and Welcome to Ferndale Psychology!

I did my undergraduate training in English and Psychology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where I graduated with distinction in 2001. I received my MA in 2003 and PhD in 2008 in Clinical Psychology from Western University in London, Ontario, where my research was focused on parent-child attachment and trauma. In graduate school I learned many attachment coding systems based on observable behaviour and am a certified reliable Adult Attachment Interview coder. I trained in many settings (clinics, hospitals, schools) and for a dozen years before entering private practice, I worked as a clinical psychologist at Western University. There, I trained future clinicians, provided individual therapy to students and developed and ran the Mindfulness Meditation programs, including 8-week Mindfulness Meditation groups based on Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR program, a Healing Through Movement group based on training I received in trauma sensitive yoga, and a Mindful Parent group. I have had my own personal mindfulness and yoga practice for over 20 years. In my final years at Western, I was the therapist on the Trans Care team at Health and Wellness.

I am licensed with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario as a Clinical and Counselling Psychologist to work with children, adolescents, adults and families. I engage in regular training and further education to keep up-to-date with my practices.

At Ferndale Psychology I tend to see mainly older adolescents (16+) and adults (up to around age 65) for a personalized and integrative style of individual therapy. I have a special interest in working with parents who are breaking cycles of abuse with their own children. I work with many BIPOC folks and 2SLGBTQIA+ populations. I aim to be trauma-informed, intersectional, affirmative, anti-racist and anti-oppressive.

I am also a clinical supervisor and am an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Psychology and the Faculty of Education at Western University. This means on occasion I might have a senior graduate student or Psychologist in Supervised Practice working with me. I am a registered provider of services to the Armed Forces and Veterans through Medavie/Blue Cross, as well as Indigenous peoples through NIHB. I also see a limited number of clients through the WSIB Community Mental Health Program. I have completed specialized training to work with all of the above populations of folks.

In my spare time, I enjoy travelling near and far, spending time in nature with my family and friends, practicing yoga, walking my dog, hanging out with my cats, and painting.