What I offer

Couples therapy in Calgary and online across Alberta

I provide therapy for couples and individuals across Alberta. This includes clients who are dating, engaged, married, common-law, separated, divorced, or navigating the loss of a partner. Therapy can support relationship concerns, conflict, life transitions, intimacy and sexual health concerns, and the desire to strengthen or improve connection.

Sessions are offered in-person in Calgary and virtually across Alberta.

The work

Marriage, couples, and relationship therapy.

Relationships change over time. Sometimes that change shows up as conflict, distance, disconnection, intimacy concerns, or uncertainty about how to move forward together. Other times, couples seek therapy because they want to strengthen their relationship, deepen connection, or navigate a new stage of life with greater intention.

Therapy provides a structured space to better understand what is happening between you. Together, we explore patterns of communication, conflict, emotional connection, intimacy, and sexual health within the relationship, as well as the ways attachment patterns and earlier relational experiences may be influencing how you respond to one another in the present.

The focus is not on assigning blame or determining who is right. It is on understanding the dynamics that have developed between you, including how emotional and sexual connection are impacted, and how new patterns of relating can be created over time.

We begin where you are and move at a pace that is thoughtful, collaborative, and respectful of what you are both ready to engage with.

Couples therapy

For partners navigating distance, conflict, or change.

When conversation has become difficult, when conflict repeats, or when something has shifted and you’re not sure how to return to each other.

This is a space to slow things down, hear each other, feel understood again, and begin to connect with the support of a steady, neutral presence.

Support may include:

Desire, connection & intimacy

Affirming diverse identities, orientations, and relationship structures

People often come in with concerns such as mismatched desire, distance that has built over time, or questions they have not felt able to ask directly. Some are navigating sexual trauma, the quiet that follows rupture, or changes in intimacy after children, illness, or long periods of disconnection.

This work focuses on what happens between partners in relation to desire, sexuality, and emotional connection. I offer a non-judgmental and structured space where each person can speak openly about their experience at a pace that feels manageable.

In couples work, attention is given to how desire, communication, and intimacy are shaped within the relationship system. We work toward understanding patterns that may be contributing to disconnection, conflict, or differences in desire, and how these patterns can shift over time.

Some concerns are complex and may require additional or more specialized support. In those situations, we discuss together what is appropriate and most helpful for your care.

Areas of focus include:

Desire and libido differences between partners
Communication and conflict impacting intimacy
Sexual trauma and its impact on relationships
LGBTQ+ affirming care and relationship diversity
Consensual non-monogamy and polyamorous relationships
Sexual health and sexual functioning concerns as they impact intimacy (including desire differences, erectile concerns, pain during sex, and related relational impact)

Individual therapy & wellness

Your individual space for reflection

Sometimes the most important relational work happens individually. Anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and identity all shape how you show up in your relationships and in your life. Individual therapy offers space to understand yourself more deeply, so you can live, love, and relate with greater clarity.

This work also includes support for sexual health, sexuality, and intimacy concerns at an individual level. This may involve sexual functioning concerns, questions related to desire or arousal, pain during sexual activity, sexual identity exploration, kink or BDSM interests, or sexual thoughts or experiences that feel confusing, distressing, or important to understand more fully.

Areas of focus include:

Anxiety and depression
Grief and loss
Trauma and PTSD
Life transitions and personal growth
Sexual health and sexual functioning concerns (e.g., desire, arousal, erectile concerns, and genito-pelvic pain/penetration difficulties)
Sexual identity, desire, and sexuality exploration
Kink-aware and sex-positive therapy (including BDSM and consensual sexual interests)

Areas of focus

Common areas of support in this work

Trauma

Trauma, whether past or recent, can affect emotional safety, reactivity, and closeness within a relationship. This work focuses on recognizing emotional activation, understanding how it shapes interaction patterns, and strengthening the ability to communicate and stay connected during distress. The goal is to support greater regulation, awareness, and connection while working through the impact of trauma within the relationship.

Affairs and infidelity

Following betrayal, relationships often experience instability and difficulty re-establishing trust. This work supports both partners in understanding the emotional and relational impact of the rupture, including how each person has experienced and made sense of what has happened. We also work with the communication that follows betrayal, including emotional responses such as anger, grief, shame, or withdrawal. From there, we explore what repair may involve over time, and whether rebuilding trust is possible or desired.

Intimacy and sexual connection

Concerns related to intimacy and sexual connection may involve desire differences, changes over time, sexual functioning concerns, or shifts following major life transitions. This work also supports exploration of sexual identity, relational orientation, and consensual relationship structures, as well as kink, desire, and sexuality-related concerns that may feel complex or difficult to navigate. The focus is on understanding how emotional and sexual connection interact within the relationship.

Addiction

When addiction is present in a relationship, it can impact trust, communication, and emotional safety. It can also create challenges in navigating support versus enabling, particularly when codependent patterns are present. This work supports both partners in understanding the relational impact of addictive behaviours while developing more interdependent ways of relating. The focus is on clarity, awareness of patterns, and practical strategies that support stability, communication, and connection.

Approaches used

The methods behind the work

I draw from a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches and tailor treatment to each client and relationship. In individual work, this includes CBT (including mindfulness-based and ACT approaches), DBT, EMDR, solution-focused therapy, and narrative therapy. In couples work, the primary frameworks are attachment-based therapy, the Gottman Method, Imago relational therapy, and sex therapy.

Attachment-based therapy

Focuses on how emotional bonds are formed and maintained, and how partners respond to each other during moments of distress or disconnection.

Gottman Method

A research-informed approach that supports communication patterns, conflict management, and relational repair.

Imago relational therapy

A structured approach that explores how early relational experiences and attachment patterns may shape expectations, emotional triggers, and interaction patterns within adult relationships.

Sex therapy framework

A structured and clinically informed approach to sexual concerns, desire, and intimacy. This includes conversations related to sexual connection, functioning, identity, and relational sexual patterns, approached in a paced and respectful way.

Sessions

In-person in Calgary and online across Alberta

Sessions are available in-person in Calgary or over secure video for clients anywhere in Alberta. You do not need to arrive with clarity or prepared language. Most people begin with a sense that something in their relationship needs attention.

We begin from there and work at a pace that is steady, structured, and responsive to what you are able to bring into the session.

However you arrive here, you can begin to rediscover your connection.

Sessions are offered in-person or online across Calgary and all of Alberta, so you can begin from wherever you feel most at ease.