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The demands of our lives and the pressure we feel can overwhelm us. Even with our best efforts, we can still find ourselves struggling. I welcome you to start where you are. Through weekly sessions, my role as a psychotherapist aims to help you uncover new experiences – a way of seeing something old, newly. A good fit is important to our work. If you’re interested in speaking further, please contact me by phone or email and we’ll go from there.

The world can be either a meaningful or miserable place, depending on how we perceive ourselves. This perception is usually formed by our mental environment and is responsible for our emotional suffering. Therapy offers a safe place to explore and even remodel our perspective, which brings long-lasting changes to our lives.

I am currently accepting new clients and offering online sessions.

Words are very important−they distinguish us as human beings from our fellow creatures. In psychotherapy the particular importance of putting thoughts and feelings into words is unmistakable. Psychoanalytic or psychodynamic psychotherapy is sometimes called the “talking cure.” When you talk in a psychotherapeutic context about what is bothering or upsetting or puzzling you, something can change.

Challenges are inevitable, and needing another’s support is human. In therapy, ways can be found to cope and move forward. Your emotional depths, behavioral patterns and relationship to self and others are explored compassionately. During this work, your developing self-awareness both heals and fosters growth in a safe, non-judgmental space. We work to understand your uniqueness and co-create the lasting change you seek.

Therapy Approaches: Psychodynamic, Client Centered, Relational & Intersubjective.

Are you carrying the weight of emotional pain?

You don’t have to bear this burden alone.  Together we can lighten your load and embark on a path towards healing and growth.  Taking the first step is a courageous act.  By choosing to seek therapy you’re investing in your wellbeing.

You are an intelligent, competent business professional, yet, despite your best efforts, your life isn’t feeling the way you had hoped. Perhaps you are struggling with relationship difficulties at home or at work, career indecision, substance abuse, or chronic anxiety. I specialize in working with people whose backgrounds and struggles are similar to yours.

In a sense, all therapy — even individual psychotherapy — is family therapy. We carry the voices, gazes, expectations, approvals, disapprovals and the deep connections to those we first knew within us, throughout our lives. Therapy can help to uncover and clarify these links and engender a better understanding of our own motivations, giving us more space to make effective decisions in our daily lives.

I am a psychodynamic therapist, group therapist and trauma specialist, trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and AEDP.

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung. Therapy provides a unique opportunity to have someone walk alongside you and help light the way as you forge your own path toward self-discovery, healing, and change. Your courage brought you here. Let’s take the next step together.

I’m here to help you overcome anxiety, to feel empowered about yourself, to flourish in your relationships and to facilitate the healing and change you desire in a safe, confidential, creative and compassionate setting. A confidential therapeutic relationship can facilitate the emotional insight and growth you need to move beyond limiting behaviours and reach a level of self-understanding, self-awareness, healing, relating, living and loving you would’ve never thought possible before.

We all, in varying degrees, struggle to bring healthy change into our lives. We easily fall into patterns; we gravitate to the familiar even if the outcomes are not in our best interest. If you find yourself struggling with heightened anxiety, depression, creative blocks, I would be happy to meet with you for a consultation and provide more information about how psychotherapy has helped others and might assist you to bring about the change that you seek.

I have learned from my own personal struggles, challenges and evolution that seeking support and building trust can bring a person to a place of fulfillment, healing and peace. This contributed to my decision to become a psychodynamic psychotherapist over 20 years ago.

Welcome to my personal bio. The fact that you are researching therapists means you have already taken the courageous first step to self-exploration and the desire to improve your life as your currently experience it. I would be honoured to help you with this exceptional journey and invite you to contact me if you would like more information on how I work with my clients and what you can expect from the therapy process.

“Human beings have an inbuilt propensity toward self-realization. If obstacles are removed, the individual will develop into a mature, fully realized adult, just as an acorn will develop into an oak tree.“ (Irvin D. Yalom, The Gift of Therapy)

I am accepting new couples and individuals seeking a shorter-term therapy. For those individuals new to therapy, I cannot provide a long-term therapy and encourage you to seek a therapist at a different stage in their career.

After 50 years in the workforce, first in the corporate world and subsequently as a psychotherapist, in the coming years I am looking toward retirement. As such, in addition to the “Issues I Work With”, challenges that we all face over a lifetime, I believe I’m also in a unique position to offer therapy for Seniors by a Senior with a focus on aging related issues and late life concerns.

One of my favorite writers described psychotherapy as an acknowledgment of how difficult life can be. Whatever those difficulties may be for you, if you think that an intimate, engaged, therapeutic experience could help, feel free to contact me.

Congratulations, for taking the first step towards better emotional well-being. Entering therapy can be a daunting decision. What can I tell you that might make this step easier?

“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” – Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

David offers a sanctuary for those navigating relationship challenges, trauma, anxiety, and more. Grounded in empathy, his practice provides a space where feelings of alienation, anger, and intergenerational trauma are deeply acknowledged and understood. Through a blend of somatic techniques to connect with your physical sensations and storytelling methods to delve into your personal history, David aims to free you from shame, stress, and anger, guiding you towards a life of greater self-awareness and emotional liberation. His mission is profound yet straightforward: to help you achieve a richer, unburdened life.

I primarily work relationally.  The key thing is to establish rapport; a safe space between client and therapist, as well as a sense of security within one’s own body.  I let the client set the starting place for their therapy.  I feel it is essential to respect the culture and life history of the client.  Also, my training in body-based approaches such as biochemistry and somatic therapy can inform my work with clients who are addressing anxieties, depressions and past traumas.