Our Team

Ann offers in person counselling in Victoria, BC, as well as phone and online video counselling sessions for clients across British Columbia. She offers weekend and weekday counselling appointments. She works with older youth (16+), adults, couples and families.

Ann meets people from a position of warmth, compassion, openness and curiosity. She has a deep commitment to connect and work alongside individuals and families to develop an authentic, trusting relationship, and offers counselling using a collaborative approach. By creating a safe therapeutic environment, Ann’s goal is to support her clients build on their personal strengths and understanding, allowing them to develop the resiliency they require to cope with the challenges they are facing.

Utilizing her education and clinical experience, Ann helps people find unique strategies to nurture stronger relationships, and to heal and grow from life’s challenges. She offers a supportive space to move away from feeling stuck, with a focus on helping clients explore their own power and ability to make the changes they want in their lives.

Ann offers support with a broad range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, career and workplace challenges and transitions, burnout, relationship issues and relationship breakdown, communication difficulties, grief and loss, eating disorders and disordered eating, parenting challenges and parent-teen conflict, stress management, personal growth, and recent or historical trauma. She has extensive experience supporting youth through the challenges of adolescence and young adulthood. Ann offers parenting support to single parents, couples, co-parents, and blended families.

Ann provides ADHD-informed counselling services, and has completed extensive training to support clients with ADHD. She holds the ADHD - Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) designation to showcase her specialized skills in supporting neurodivergent clients. Her training and experience allows her to help clients with ADHD better understand their diagnosis and the impact it is having on their lives, develop strategies that amplify their strengths, and better manage the challenges that come with executive dysfunction/executive functioning difficulties.

Ann has a special interest in supporting clients struggling with binge eating and chronic dieting, with a focus on helping clients improve their relationships with their bodies. Her training and experience in this area allow her to support clients to calm their nervous system and regulate their emotions more effectively, build mindful and intuitive eating patterns that support awareness of hunger and fullness, and move from shame to empowerment. Ann offers a weight-inclusive space that challenges diet culture and weight stigma, using a trauma-informed approach to help clients approach emotional eating from a holistic lens. Her status as a Certified Binge Eating and Chronic Dieting Professional reflects her training and experience in this area.

In her work with individuals, couples and families, Ann draws from a variety of evidence-based counselling approaches based on the needs of each client. She uses a blend of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), emotionally focused therapy (EFT), internal family systems theory, and narrative therapy. She works from a trauma-informed, solution-focused and humanistic lens that emphasizes self-discovery and personal agency.

Ann is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors with a Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia. She has 20 years of experience working with children, youth, families and individuals.

Rate:

Individuals
$165 per 50 minute session
$265 per 80 minute session

Couples/Families
$185 per 50 minute session
$290 per 80 minute session