CONNECTION • embodiment • LOVE
Helping you discover
a more fulfilling life.
The life you deserve.
A FEW WORDS
About Me
Consistent across my work is the belief that we come into this world whole, and the people don’t need to be “fixed”. As a relational therapist, I specialize in experientially working with self-discovery, relationship health, intimacy, and trauma.
I find what is often missing in our lives are the deeply attuned connections where we feel seen, heard, and understood. Having those connections enables us to regulate our nervous systems and to gather enough strength to accomplish meaningful change.
There is tremendous healing in slowing down to intentionally listen to your body, mind, and heart. If you are feeling stuck or dissatisfied with your life, starting therapy can be the first step towards creating transformation.
areas where i can support you
Healthier relationship with yourself, your partner, and your emotions.
✓ Addressing relationship issues
✓ Uncovering your relational patterns
✓ Understanding attachment trauma, rejection, and abandonment
✓ Helping you to develop a somatic sense of safety
✓ Regulating emotional sensitivity and working with boundaries
✓ Re-connecting to your inner child
✓ Working with your inner critic and any other parts
✓ Re-discovering your vulnerability
✓ Promoting feelings of self-acceptance and self-love
✓ Deepening your experience of embodiment
✓ Shifting your internal dynamic from fear to trust
✓ Addressing any challenges around sex, sexuality, and intimacy
✓ Achieving personal growth and transformation
✓ Understanding your stressors and working with anger
✓ Processing deep feelings of grief and loss
Therapeutic Approach
Operating from an intersection of attachment, neuroscience, plant medicine, and somatic frameworks, I focus on creating a safe container where we can explore the delights and challenges of being human.
The foundation of my therapeutic approach lies in identifying and integrating all the different parts that make up each person. We all contain multitudes and are in a constant process of unfolding.
This type of parts work allows my clients to recover from anxiety, shame and guilt while increasing their capacity to process expansive emotions such as joy, excitement, pride, gratitude, and love.
lifelong learning
My Professional Training
✓ Registered Clinical Counsellor, BCACC #20814
✓ Master of Counselling Psychology, City University
✓ Bachelor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UBC
✓ Internal Family Systems (IFS), Level 1, Level 2 (ongoing)
✓ Internal Family Systems (IFS), Stepping Stones, IFSCA
✓ Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Level 1, 2 and 3
✓ Relational Life Therapy (RLT) Bootcamp Facilitator Training with Terry Real
✓ Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy, Certification Training with Tammy Nelson
✓ Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Workshop
✓ Compassionate Inquiry with Gabor Mate, Introductory Course
✓ Esther Perel Couples Sessions
✓ Sensorimotor Psychotherapy with Pat Ogden, Seminar
✓ Relational Privilege + Systemic Trauma Workshop with Akilah Riley-Richardson
✓ Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems, Intensive Workshop
✓ Gottman Method, Level 1 and 2
✓ Plant Medicine and Psychedelic Integration Program
NATURE . FREEDOM . LOVE
Outside of Therapy
My curiosity has led me to study behavioural psychology, fine arts, leadership development, and neuroscience. In my previous life, I have worked with high-performance individuals as a management consultant and executive coach.
I was born in Uzbekistan and have lived on many continents, amidst different cultures. I now reside in East Van with my partner, my two kids, and our two dogs.
I love anchoring myself to the present moment, whether it’s listening to records, dancing, diving into a literary novel, or trying out a new recipe. My soul sings when I am in the wild - be it the mountains, forests, or large bodies of water.
Therapeutic approaches
IFS
Internal Family Systems or parts work
RLT
Relational Life Therapy when working with Couples
Somatic
Sensorimotor and Hakomi for both Individuals and Couples
client words
“Thank you for supporting me when I couldn’t support myself. I am so glad that I found you. You have done wonders and I feel more myself than ever.
-Jenny B.