In our initial consult, you’ll be able to ask any questions you have about the coaching or counselling process. Then, you’ll be invited to share what brings you in and your goals for moving forward. I can also help you book your first full appointment if you’re interested in working together.
For new clients, the first appointment is an intake appointment where we discuss your history, existing supports, and goals. We will also talk about Informed consent and confidentiality.
Coaching clients: you will receive a new client information package that includes some resources on goal-setting and preparing for your sessions. We will discuss how to engage in reflective inquiry, which is not complicated, but a different way of conversing than regular conversation.
Counselling clients: you will be sent a new client package, which includes resources on preparing for sessions, and handling issues that might arise in the counselling process.
I encourage clients to communicate with me personally about any issues that might arise. Sometimes this is difficult for clients because of tendencies many of us have to avoid conflict and potentially hurting another’s feelings. I welcome feedback and correction, before, during and after sessions.
Coaching and counselling are only effective when there is trust and honestly between the client and the practitioner.
The relationship is important, so if you aren’t connecting well with me, please let me know and I will do my best to repair any miscommunications, mistakes, or refer you to another professional.
You are welcome to bring up any topic of concern. In some cases seemingly unrelated topics may be intertwined, and it is my aim to facilitate learning from new awareness.
For coaching sessions, the client will get the most out of their session if they choose one topic to work with for the session, but it is normal for the topic & desired outcome to shift sometimes, as the client reflects on their experience.
I will let you know if something is beyond my scope of practice and support you in finding suitable resources elsewhere.
I do not provide mental health or psychoeducational assessments. I can, however, assist with assessing your interests, values, skills and personality for the purposes of career/educational decision-making.
If you’re interested in in-depth career assessments and coaching, I can refer you to a professional career coach.
Counsellors adhere to a code of ethics that includes confidentiality. I will not discuss your attendance or the content of our meetings with anyone else without your permission unless required to do so by law. If you have any concerns, please discuss them with me in the first session or as they arise.

is a partnership that helps clients improve their personal and/or professional life by uncovering unique strengths and realizing specific goals and dreams.
aims to help the client untangle problems based on a pragmatic & holistic approach to goals that emphasizes discovery, reflection, action, and learning.
does not diagnose or direct clients, but rather helps them explore their values, needs, beliefs, and choices through a caring, warm, and empathetic partnership.
can improve one’s self-efficacy, productivity, focus, time management, and communication skills.
is informed by the neurodiversity paradigm, and is based on research in neuroscience, positive psychology, behavioural change, and adult education.
Adapted from the CPCA guidelines on Counselling Therapy & Life Coaching (Updated November 2023)
is a therapeutic relationship with therapeutic purpose, goals, and outcomes.
supports clients in overcoming mental and emotional issues that are interfering with day-to-day life.
helps individuals identify the root cause of their struggles and develop strategies to accept or overcome them.
supports individuals whose lives are impacted by depression, anxiety, suicidality, addictions, trauma, domestic dysfunction and conflict, patterns of family dysfunction, child abuse and neglect, developmental problems, attachment issues, change, loss, and grief.
is for serious concerns that require a full assessment, treatment plan, knowledge of the nature of the problem, and knowledge of different counselling modalities that can be used to address these problems.
Adapted from the CPCA guidelines on Counselling Therapy & Life Coaching (Updated November 2023)
ADHD life coaching is shorthand for people who have any type of executive functioning challenges. If you have an official or suspected diagnosis of ADHD, autism, or another type of brain injury or cognitive challenge, I am trained to work with clients using this type of reflective inquiry, which emphasizes partnering with the client to focus on goal-setting, exploring or adopting more supportive perspectives, and taking considered actions that improve your life.
In my practice, coaching fits under the larger umbrella of counselling, and can be useful when a client is ready to focus on creating routines or taking other actions in the present that support their future goals.
By contrast, counselling support can help clients better understand themselves, their past, and how issues like personality, family dynamics, relational events and patterns, and social and cultural expectations have shaped their current relationships to self and others.
Neurodiversity-informed counselling is a non-pathologizing approach to counselling work that, while we may use medical terminology at times for a lack of better words, is open, empathetic and non-judgemental when discussing the client’s executive functioning.