Why this work
What I’ve come to understand, through my own experience with emotional and psychological abuse, is that clarity on its own doesn’t resolve it.
You can understand the patterns, recognize what happened, and still find yourself reacting in ways that don’t fully make sense. Not because you’re missing something, but because the impact of that kind of relationship isn’t only cognitive.
It affects how your system responds: how you process stress, how you interpret situations, how you relate to yourself and others. And that doesn’t shift through insight alone.
For a long time, most of the resources I found focused on helping people understand the other person or the relationship itself. That was helpful, but it left parts of the experience unresolved.
It wasn’t until I came across trauma and nervous system work that things started to make sense in a more concrete and applicable way.
That’s the piece that felt missing, and what shaped the way I approach this work now.
My approach to this work
I don’t approach recovery as something that requires more disclosure or deeper emotional processing.
What matters more is understanding what’s happening for you right now, and engaging with it in a way that creates stability over time.
That means paying attention not just to thoughts or emotions, but to how your nervous system is responding: how patterns show up in your body, your reactions, and your day-to-day experience.
It also means working in a structured way. The process builds over time, with an emphasis on laying foundations and building on them in ways that support a sense of safety, stability, and lasting change.
Education is part of that, but the real goal is to integrate what you’re learning into your own experience so it becomes something you can truly use.
The process tends to feel less intense, but more steady and grounded.
My role
My role is to support you in making sense of your experience and building the capacity to move through it in a way that feels secure and sustainable.
That includes helping you:
• understand patterns and reactions
• clarify what feels confusing or contradictory
• notice what feels most relevant in the moment
• move at a pace that feels manageable
This isn’t therapy, crisis support, or diagnosis. It’s a structured space for learning, orientation, and integration over time.
What it feels like to work together
The work is steady and structured.
There’s no pressure to open up in a certain way, no expectation to “do it right,” and no focus on intensity for the sake of progress.
Instead, the process is designed to stay manageable, so you can actually remain engaged with it.
Many people come into this feeling overwhelmed, either by what they’ve been through or by everything they’ve tried to do to recover.
Here, what tends to shift is not just understanding, but how the process itself feels: more contained, clearer, and easier to stay with over time.
Background
My background is in psychology and interpersonal violence, along with ongoing training in trauma, attachment, and recovery from psychological and relational abuse.
This work is also shaped by lived experience, which informs both how I understand these dynamics and how I approach supporting others through them.
Training includes:
• Trauma and Resilience Life Coach Program Certification (Trauma Institute International)
• Biology of Trauma® Professional Certification (Trauma Healing Accelerated)
• Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching Certification (The Embody Lab)
• Somatic Attachment Therapy Training (The Embody Lab)
• Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Training (Dr. Ramani Durvasula, The Association for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment)
• Personality Disorders Training (Gregory W. Lester, PhD)
Education:
• Undergraduate Certificate in Psychology (Université TÉLUQ)
• Short Program on Interpersonal and Sexual Violence (UQAM)
