Michelle brings a warm, relational approach to counselling, with a genuine curiosity about each person and their unique experiences. She seeks to create a space where clients feel accompanied, believing that meaningful change can begin when we feel understood and supported. She recognizes each person’s inherent strengths and capacity for healing and offers a compassionate presence as clients navigate life’s challenges.

With training in counselling psychology and social work, Michelle brings over ten years of experience supporting individuals from diverse backgrounds in social service settings, including working with survivors of sexual assault and people experiencing disordered eating. She works with adults and young adults navigating concerns such as anxiety and stress, relationship and family difficulties, single-incident and complex trauma, and major life transitions.

Her work is grounded in a trauma-informed approach and an understanding that social and systemic contexts shape our experiences. Drawing on somatic and experiential approaches informed by Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Michelle invites clients to notice and share subtle shifts in feelings, bodily sensations, and impulses, as well as their experience of the counselling relationship.