Compassionate, evidence-informed counselling for individuals, couples, and families navigating relationships, life transitions, and emotional well-being.
A strong therapeutic relationship is an important part of the counselling process. My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in curiosity rather than judgment.
I work to create a respectful and supportive space where clients can speak openly, better understand their experiences and relationship patterns, and explore what matters most to them.
Whether I’m working with an individual, couple, or family, I pay close attention not only to the problem that brings you to counselling, but also to the emotions, attachment needs, patterns, and experiences underneath it.
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Virtual appointments available
In person available in Halifax , NS
I believe good therapy requires more than knowledge of theories and techniques. It also requires curiosity, compassion, honesty, and an understanding that relationships and life rarely fit neatly into a textbook.
As a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist (RMFT), my training is grounded in understanding people within the context of their relationships, families, experiences, and the patterns that develop between them.
I also bring the perspective that comes with lived experience. I’m in my mid-40s, a mom to a 16-year-old son, and originally from Prince Edward Island. Like most people, I’ve experienced relationships, parenting, career changes, loss, uncertainty, and unexpected turns in life. I don’t assume my experiences are the same as yours, but they have shaped the way I approach this work with openness, compassion, respect, and an appreciation for how complicated real life and relationships can be.
My style is warm, collaborative, and straightforward. I want clients to feel comfortable talking about the complicated parts of relationships and life without feeling judged, reduced to a diagnosis, or told what they “should” do.
Whether you’re looking to strengthen your relationship, communicate better, reconnect with your partner, understand a recurring pattern, navigate betrayal or loss, make a difficult decision, or better understand yourself, our work begins with understanding what’s happening for you; and what matters to you.
I’m a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist (RMFT) and founder of Yellowfinch Counselling & Wellness. I work primarily with couples and individuals who want to strengthen their relationships, improve communication, feel more connected, navigate intimacy concerns, understand recurring relationship patterns, and build healthier ways of relating to one another.
I also work with people navigating more difficult relationship experiences, including infidelity and betrayal, separation and divorce recovery, grief, attachment concerns, and uncertainty about the future of a relationship.
I chose to specialize in couple and family therapy because I wanted advanced training specifically in relationships and the systems that shape them. As part of achieving my RMFT designation, I completed 200+ hours of clinical supervision in couple and family therapy with CACFT-approved marriage and family therapy supervisors, in addition to the education and clinical experience required for the designation. This systemic training shapes how I work with both couples and individuals.
My educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Mary’s University, a Graduate Diploma in Community Health from Memorial University of Newfoundland, graduate-level coursework in counselling through Briercrest College’s Master of Counselling program, and a Master of Family & Consumer Sciences from Iowa State University.
I am also a Certified in Grief Support and Certified Infidelity Recovery Specialist. My work draws from a blend of evidence-informed approaches, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Gottman Method, Narrative Therapy, mindfulness, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
My approach is warm, practical, and collaborative. Whether you’re looking to strengthen an already healthy relationship or work through something that has left you feeling stuck or disconnected, therapy can provide a space to better understand what’s happening, learn new ways of responding to one another, and create meaningful change.
At Yellowfinch, I recognize that every individual, couple, and family brings a different history, set of strengths, challenges, relationships, and goals to therapy. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.
My work is collaborative and individualized. Together, we explore what is happening, the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, what matters most to you, and the changes or decisions you would like to work toward.
Therapy also doesn’t have to end when the session does. Depending on your goals and learning style, I may provide personalized exercises, articles, reflection questions, relationship tools, or other resources to support the work you’re doing between sessions.
Yellowfinch isn’t a large online therapy platform or a clinic housing 20+ therapists. It is a small, relationship-focused practice built around thoughtful, individualized care.
That means taking the time to understand the person or relationship in front of me rather than applying the same approach to everyone.
Whether you’re navigating relationship conflict, betrayal, disconnection, separation, grief, a major life transition, or trying to better understand yourself and your relationship patterns, therapy can provide a place to explore what’s happening and consider what comes next.
Ready to get started? Book an appointment or contact Yellowfinch to learn more.
(Serving clients virtually across Canada where applicable)*
In Person in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Reaching out for counselling can feel like a big step, so I try to make getting started as simple and comfortable as possible. Whether you’re coming on your own or as a couple, we’ll begin by talking about what’s bringing you to therapy, what you’d like help with, and what you hope might be different.
From there, we’ll decide together what may be helpful and whether my approach feels like the right fit for you.
