ABOUT EMILY
“Sometimes life changes before we have a chance to catch up with it. The things that once made sense may no longer fit, and you may find yourself wondering what you actually want for yourself. Counselling can offer a place to slow down, make sense of what’s happening, and explore what feels true now. I also value a sense of humour. There’s room for seriousness, curiosity, and a laugh along the way.”
Hi, I’m Emily.
I am a Registered Counsellor with the Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA) and hold the designation of Master Practitioner of Clinical Counselling – Provisional (MPCC-P). As a human and counsellor, I am drawn to the fundamental questions that often emerge during periods of change, loss, uncertainty, and transition. Questions about identity, meaning, authenticity, and what it means to build a life that feels true to who you are.
There are moments in life when the answers that once guided you no longer seem to fit. A relationship changes. A loss occurs. A role ends. A work environment shifts. Or, sometimes, nothing external has changed, yet something no longer feels quite right. The future you imagined begins to look different than you expected. What follows is often more than stress or anxiety, it can be a deeper questioning of who you are, what matters, and how you want to move forward.
With experience working in high-pressure and emotionally demanding environments, I understand how periods of burnout, grief, caregiving, uncertainty, and transition can affect not only your wellbeing, but also your sense of meaning, identity, and connection to yourself.
My approach is conversational, trauma-informed, and grounded in nervous system awareness. I see counselling as a place to pay closer attention to your experience, explore the patterns and stories that have shaped your life, and develop a deeper relationship with yourself. From that awareness, new possibilities, perspectives, and ways of being can begin to surface.
And I like to laugh. Not because hard things aren’t serious, but because life can be strange and being human can be a little absurd. You can be grieving something, questioning how to move forward, and still find yourself laughing at something completely ridiculous. I think there’s something important in that... the fact that you can hold more than one thing at once.
If this resonates, I’m here. I offer online counselling sessions, giving you the flexibility to connect from wherever you feel most comfortable, whether that’s at home, between commitments, or somewhere else that works for you.
How I Work
I’ll be honest with you.
I’m not here to simply agree with you or tell you what you want to hear. If I notice something that seems important, I’ll bring it into the room. We can look at it together, without judgement and without assuming there is only one right way to see it.
You don’t have to have yourself figured out
You can come as you are. Unsure, overwhelmed, angry, stuck, conflicted, or not even sure what brought you here. We can slow things down and get curious about what is underneath what you’re experiencing.
We’ll look beneath the surface
Sometimes the thing that brings you to therapy is not the whole story. Anxiety, anger, burnout, people-pleasing, conflict, or feeling stuck can all be ways of responding to something deeper. We can explore the patterns, needs, beliefs, and experiences that shape how you move through the world, especially when the ways you have learned to cope are no longer working as well as they once did.
And we can make it practical
Talking things through can help, but sometimes you also need to try something out in the world. We might work on a skill, notice a pattern, try a different approach, or have something to think about between sessions. If it feels helpful, I may offer a little homework. You can come back and tell me what you noticed, what worked, and what absolutely did not. The point is to make therapy useful beyond the hour we spend together.
We’ll figure it out together
I’m not the expert on you. You are. I bring clinical training, curiosity, and perspective. You bring your lived experience. I won’t tell you what you should feel, who you should be, or what choices you should make. We’ll pay attention to what is happening and work from there.
There’s room for humour, too
Therapy can ask us to sit with some pretty difficult things. But being serious does not mean being solemn. Life is complicated, painful, strange, and sometimes very funny. If there is something to laugh about, we can laugh.