My counselling background includes working with the following people and experiences:

– Immigration and settlement;

– Poverty and/or homelessness;

– LGBTTI2QQ communities;

– Managing difficult or harmful relationships;

– Friends, couples, individuals;

– Managing childhood trauma and crisis;

– Parenting as survivor of trauma;

– Queer and trans parenting, and parenting gender-ful children;

– Family planning, infertility;

– Sexuality;

– Gender and gender transition;

– Inter-generational relationships;

– Polyamory, open relationships, monogamy, celibacy, asexuality;

– Kink and/or BDSM relationship dynamics;

– Work stressors; non-traditional work, sex work;

– Individual experiences of anxiety and depression;

– Neurodiversity, ADHD

– Creativity, Spirituality;

– Dis/ability issues

– Community, activism, tensions within activism and community, activist burn-out.

For more than 20 years, I have worked as front-line counsellor in community agencies, including those that embraced a feminist and anti-oppression approach. I have a Masters Degree in Social Work and am registered as a Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, as well as the Ontario Association of Social Workers.