Why do we need Emotional Coaching?
Many of us have experienced unmet needs for safety, connection or autonomy in childhoods or in important relationships, which created painful emotions. Then, we weren’t taught how to relate to our emotions in healthy, effective ways. Instead, we were conditioned to fight, fear, and feel shame for our feelings and needs. We learned to fear, reject, avoid, suppress, and numb them.
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As a consequence, today we fear rejection or abandonment, feel debilitating anxiety and insecurity, exhaustion, and resentment; feel trapped behind masks and in roles that leave us feeling disconnected and empty; and we feel disconnected from our power.
Fighting with and suppressing big emotions produces profound inner turmoil. Unwanted parts of ourselves and feelings get cast away into our unconscious, where they get triggered, sabotage us and steer the ship! We get stuck in patterns of deprioritizing our most longed for needs. We feel overwhelmed or shut down when trying to confront our deepest fears.
We may turn to addictive and control patterns to disconnect from or avoid the pain. And ultimately, we feel blocked from going for and enjoying what we truly want.
We need ways to regulate our nervous systems in the present moment, identify and meet our emotional needs as they come up and to feel heard, cared for, validated, soothed, calmed, safe, and grounded in our minds and bodies.
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Unfortunately, fundamental understandings and skills for navigating our emotions, inner realms, and relationships have a history of being ignored and not discussed or taught.
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How we work in sessions
​What we do in sessions is tailored to your unique experiences and goals. Here are some of the processes that we may focus on during our time together:
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Connecting deeply with your body and your emotions. We bring awareness into the physical body to identify and align with your felt experience, inner self, inner integrity, inner wisdom, core values, meaning, purpose, and wants.
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Learn to identify, accept, and meet chronically unmet emotional needs, such as needs for acceptance, love, safety, trust, and validation.
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Learn to develop internal habits that enable presence, connection, and thriving. Live mindfully, deliberately, and with empowerment.
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Utilize emotional expression tools to express and release the energy of suppressed or stuck emotions. Increase your vitality.
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Learn to address and resolve your internal conflicts (e.g., between divergent feelings). Find balance and harmony.
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Practice Identifying, creating space for, expressing, and accepting your rejected inner experiences. This is a self-integration process that establishes internal harmony, trust, peace, and love.
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Resolve interpersonal and relational difficulties and goals, such as challenges in forming secure bonds and developing and setting healthy boundaries.
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Learn to deliberately shift physiological and emotional states through a variety of physical, visualization and meditation tools.
Professional Bio & Interests
I completed an MA and PhD in a dual program combining clinical psychology and research methods at Concordia University in Montreal. During my formation, I completed 8 years worth of rigorous, supervised psychotherapy internships and placements in university, hospital, and private practice settings. I was fortunate to be trained and supervised in multiple therapeutic frameworks including, mindfulness, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), emotion-focused therapy (EFT), internal family systems (IFS), as well as Jungian and psychodynamic perspectives, among others. During these supervised placements, I developed a therapeutic focus in working with adults on the impacts of childhood trauma, particularly the kind of trauma resulting from chronically unmet emotional needs in childhood.
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My personal, clinical and research interests intercept the realms of mind, body, and energetics. My graduate school research projects investigated the placebo effect on physical healing, hypnosis, and the influence of mind and emotions on the body. Upon completing my PhD, I went on to study somatics and body healing work with the Body-Mind Centering school in Vermont. I also had the opportunity to obtain training in psychedelic integration.
I have a deep and passionate interest in theory and practice for understanding whole systems health and thriving as well as for understanding the natural forces of this universe and living in connection, alignment and flow with our greatest purpose. Out of school, I have spent years studying and practicing nutrition, body work, energy work, tantra, meditation, ritual, contact improvisation, and authentic relating, movement and expression, as well as divine and spiritual connection. In my coaching work, I integrate valuable understanding and tools from numerous mind-body and spiritual frameworks, as well as eastern philosophies, such as Buddhist and tantric perspectives. The learning and practicing of wellness and coaching is my passion and I enjoy experimenting with and practicing everything I teach.
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I believe in the value of practicing a balanced lifestyle that involves deep listening, cultivating inner knowing, connecting with nature and one another, pleasure, eating to thrive, embodiment and movement, and practicing meaningful contribution.
To book a session or a free 15-minute consultation, please fill out this form or send me an email at the address below.​
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Individual sessions are available via videoconference and by phone.
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50-minute sessions - $150 + taxes
80-minute sessions - $225 + taxes​
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*Please note, sessions are unlikely to be covered by your insurance unless you have flexible coverage for coaching and wellness. Read more.
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A note on licensing, titles, and insurance coverage
I am not registered with any provincial licensing body for psychologists. Therefore, my title is ‘coach’, not ‘psychologist' and I offer coaching, not psychotherapy. This means, I am not licensed to diagnose or treat mental disorders or to offer psychotherapy.​ You'll have to check with your private insurance to find out if they will cover our sessions through coaching, consulting, or education.