Welcome to Through the Looking Glass Counselling.

I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with a degree in Psychology from UBC and a Counselling Skills Diploma from Orca Institute. I am also a trained EMDR Therapist..

One of the things I hear most often is:

>“I don’t know why I told you all of that so quickly.”

For most of my life, people have trusted me with difficult things.

I spent years working in emotionally intense environments, including victim services, emergency management, and critical incident stress response. I have sat with people during some of the hardest moments of their lives. What I learned through that work is that many people are carrying far more than anyone realizes.

>They are not weak, nor broken. They are often exhausted from ‘just surviving’.

My approach is direct, compassionate, and deeply human. I believe therapy should feel like a real relationship, not a clinical performance. I will not pathologize your coping strategies or shame the ways you learned to get through.

Together, we work toward understanding what your nervous system has been trying to protect, what patterns are no longer serving you, and what it might feel like to come back into your own life again.

Welcome to Through the Looking Glass Counselling. I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with ... Read More