Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy
You may find yourself repeating patterns you cannot seem to change despite insight, effort, or knowing what you “should” be doing. Anxiety, overwhelm, trauma, grief, relationship struggles, self-doubt, self-sabotage, emotional triggers, stress, and unhelpful habits are often influenced by subconscious patterns, nervous system responses, and past experiences. Even highly capable, successful people can struggle with patterns that feel difficult to change alone.
Psychotherapy and clinical hypnotherapy can support meaningful cognitive, emotional, and behavioural change by helping you understand and update the subconscious patterns, beliefs, emotional learning, and nervous system responses that may be contributing to distress or interfering with the life you want to create.
Sessions are designed not only to support emotional regulation and nervous system regulation, but also to build greater nervous system capacity so you can better navigate stress, tolerate uncertainty, strengthen confidence, improve relationships, and more fully experience calm, success, connection, and wellbeing without becoming overwhelmed by them.
Using a trauma-informed, neuroscience-informed, client-centred, and individualized approach, sessions are tailored to support meaningful and lasting change at both the conscious and subconscious levels.
How Psychotherapy, Counselling and Hypnotherapy Can Help:
Whether you are struggling with anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, stress, self-doubt, or patterns that no longer serve you, psychotherapy, counselling, hypnotherapy and hypnosis can support meaningful cognitive, emotional, and behavioural change. Sessions are tailored to your goals and may help you:
- Become the best version of yourself
- Feel more calm, confident, and in control
- Reduce anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional distress
- Improve emotional regulation and nervous system regulation
- Improve sleep, relaxation, and overall wellbeing
- Build greater confidence, self-worth, resilience, and self-compassion
- Better manage stress, uncertainty, and life transitions
- Strengthen motivation and reduce procrastination or avoidance
- Improve relationships, communication, and boundary-setting skills
- Release guilt, shame, fear, and other destructive emotional patterns
- Heal from trauma, grief, loss, and other challenging life experiences
- Build greater nervous system capacity for calm, confidence, success, and connection
- Gain greater clarity and confidence around career transitions, life direction, and major decisions
- Develop healthier self-care habits and supportive practices such as meditation, relaxation, and self-hypnosis
- Identify and update subconscious patterns contributing to self-doubt, self-sabotage, or emotional suffering
- Navigate breakups, divorce, relationship loss, and difficult life transitions with greater healing and self-compassion
Areas I Can Help With
Anxiety, Stress & Nervous System Regulation
- Anxiety and panic
- Chronic stress and overwhelm
- Nervous system dysregulation
- Sleep difficulties and insomnia
- Burnout and emotional exhaustion
- Fears and phobias
Trauma, Grief & Emotional Healing
- Trauma and PTSD
- Grief, bereavement, and loss
- Breakups, divorce, and relationship loss
- Guilt, shame, forgiveness, and letting go
- Emotional triggers and difficult emotional patterns
Confidence, Relationships & Personal Growth
- Self-confidence and self-esteem
- Self-doubt and self-sabotage
- Relationship issues and communication challenges
- Boundaries and people-pleasing
- Career transitions and life direction
- Motivation, procrastination, and behavioural change
Health & Behavioural Change
- Smoking cessation
- Weight management and emotional eating
- IBS, headaches, and stress-related symptoms
- Perimenopause and menopause support
- Pain Management (OldPain2Go and other techniques)
- Preparing for medical, dental, and surgical procedures
- Fertility, hypnobirthing, and postpartum support
- Sports performance and peak performance
Have questions about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, counselling, psychotherapy, appointments, or what to expect?
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My Approach
No two clients are alike, which is why sessions are individualized to your goals, experiences, and needs. Depending on what you are working on, I may integrate psychotherapy, counselling, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, nervous system regulation strategies, and other evidence-informed approaches to support meaningful and lasting change.
Some clients are seeking relief from anxiety, trauma, grief, stress, or relationship challenges, while others want support navigating life transitions, improving confidence, changing habits, or creating meaningful personal or professional change.
Content-Free Work
Some experiences may feel too private, painful, traumatic, or difficult to talk about in detail. I offer “content-free” approaches that can help support healing and change without requiring you to share every detail of what you have experienced.
Content-free work may be helpful for trauma, inner conflict, emotional distress, grief, guilt, shame, relationship loss, difficult memories, and other experiences that may feel overwhelming or uncomfortable to discuss.
Availability, Fees & Insurance
There is often a wait list to work with me. However, my associates at Amethyst Wellness Group, whom I've trained in hypnosis and/or hypnotherapy, are also available to assist you. Please contact either office to schedule your complimentary 15 minute consultation. At that time, we can provide you with the estimated wait time for an appointment with me if there is a current wait list and/or schedule you with one of my associates.
Please note we do not provide crisis counselling services or walk-in services. All appointments must be scheduled in advance.
Session Format: A two-hour intake appointment is recommended, although shorter intakes are available by request. If you schedule an intake appointment of less than two hours, it is unlikely time will allow for a hypnotherapy session. Subsequent appointments are scheduled for 1 hour, 1.5 hours (most popular), or 2 hours. Longer intensives are also available by request. Appointments are available in-person, online or via telephone.
After hours appointments: A limited number of appointments on Fridays, evenings (starting at 5:00pm or later) and/or weekends are available for an additional fee.
Sliding Scale Fees are available to clients who do not have benefits and/or the budget to pay our full fee. However, there is a wait list for these appointments. Please contact our office to join the wait list.
Direct Billing is available with over thirty insurance companies such as Canada Life, Manulife, Green Shield, NIHB, Beneva, Desjardins Insurance, Industrial Alliance, CINUP and more. Pre-approval with NIHB must be obtained in advance of your initial appointment. All other companies can be direct billed online at the conclusion of your appointment for your convenience.
Cancellation Policy
Missed appointments and appointments cancelled with less than 48 hours notice will be charged the full appointment fee. Clients who miss or late cancel more than two appointments, except in cases of emergency, may be discharged from services due to the impact on appointment availability for other clients.
Free 15 Minutes
A complimentary discovery phone or online consultation is available for you.
Let the change begin.
