The Work

This work begins with the understanding that lives are shaped through story.

The ways we come to understand ourselves are not formed in isolation. They are shaped over time through relationships, culture, language, and lived experience. What we carry forward are not only events, but also the meanings we have made of them.

My counselling approach is informed by postmodern and narrative perspectives. Together, we explore the stories that have come to shape identity, relationships, and possibility—not as fixed truths, but as evolving narratives that can be examined, questioned, and reimagined.


Sessions are collaborative and reflective in nature.

Rather than focusing on diagnosis or correction, counselling offers space to notice patterns, language, and assumptions that may have quietly taken hold. Some of these stories may feel limiting, over-rehearsed, or no longer aligned with who you are becoming.

Through conversation, we explore how these narratives have taken shape, the influences that have sustained them, and the meanings or possibilities that may emerge through a different perspective.

Sessions

There is no single story of who you are.

Within every person's experience, there are often multiple, sometimes competing narratives. Some become dominant. Others remain less visible, though equally meaningful.

This work attends to the stories that have been emphasized—and those that may have been left out.


Narrative

You may begin to notice:

  • the language you use to describe yourself

  • the expectations you've come to carry

  • the roles you've learned to inhabit

  • the ways meaning has been shaped over time

From here, space may open for new perspectives, possibilities, and ways of understanding yourself.

Counselling

This process may also include more inward, reflective work.

This can involve attending to emotional experience, embodiment, and aspects of self that have remained unspoken or unseen. At times, it may invite a slower, more attentive engagement with memory, identity, and personal narrative.

Reflection

The work is not about becoming someone new.

It is about relating differently to the stories that have shaped you — and making room for those that have yet to be told.


Re-Authoring