Meet Michele

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As a Registered Psychotherapist (RP) and fellow human I understand that everyone is simply trying to find their way in the world.

Born and raised in Toronto, I grew up enjoying the Blue Mountains as a weekender until moving to the area permanently in the 90's. Urban & suburb, rural & town. Living in the country, connected to forests, fields, with the abundance of nature and beauty of the Georgian Bay area fills my cup and nourishes my soul.

My first academic degree was in Therapeutic Nutrition & Health Sciences. Later, ignited by my own healing journey, I made a life-changing move into a meaningful career in Psychotherapy.

Now ...

Years later, I'm in a different phase of life where I've already walked a lot of the life path.

I've lived the more carefree young adult years that were followed by the busy middle years of juggling parenting and working, sprinkled with life crises, curve balls, and upheavals.

Now, I know myself so much better.
As well, I've also learned to trust myself.

"As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live."

- van Goethe

Taking a Holistic Approach to Individual Therapy

Experience

My therapeutic lens is informed by many roadmaps including attachment-based and developmental trauma theories. These theories offer insight to understand our relationships with others and ourselves as center to how we navigate and get our needs met in this world.

Awareness

These roadmaps and perspectives form the framework for gaining new awareness which helps to guide you through the process of understanding your thoughts, emotions, and struggles. Gaining awareness is one of the first steps to support personal healing and for navigating growth.

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As we learn about your life, I can help you gain a new and deeper understanding of your past, the roles caregivers played in your development, your core wounds, what needs were unmet, how you created adaptations & defenses to cope and how this may be impacting your present struggles.

Therapeutic theories and approaches that inform me

There are traditional, modern and transpersonal therapies, theories and modalities that I have been trained in. During sessions, I draw from those that I feel will be supportive.

• Person-Centered Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Acceptance and Commitment Theoory
• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT)
• Strength-Based Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Compassionate Inquiry
• Psychodynamic Therapy
• Relational Therapy
• Trauma Informed Therapy - Single Incident and Complex
• Neuroscience and Nervous System Informed
• Intersubjectivity Theory
• Feminist Relational Theory
• Self-Psychology Theory
• Psychosocial Development Theory

• Transpersonal Psychology and Therapy
  
• Inner Child Work/Healing
  
• Humanistic Psychotherapy
• Interpersonal Therapy
• Somatic Psychotherapy
• Mindfulness & Contemplative Practices
• Jungian Theories
• Mindfulness Cognitive Based Therapy (MBCT)
• Intergenerational and Ancestral Trauma
• Internal Family Systems (IFS) Theory
• Attachment Theory
• Relational Codependency Theory
• Transactional Analysis Theory
• Creative Visualization
• Polyvagal Theory & Nervous System Regulation
• Cognitive Development Theory
• Experiential and Creative Therapies

A message from Michele

After a decade of sitting with clients in sessions, what I have experienced and come to know is that theories alone are not the answer for healing. The reason is that a purely clinical and tactical approach does not encompass your full humanness and experiences.

I believe that therapy needs to include your whole being, mind, body, emotions, and the unique and soulful individual that you are. Therapy is not meant to 'fix' you; it is meant to help you find you.

Above all else, I will listen to your story and provide therapy that is best suited to you. Ultimately, the work of a therapist lies in the ability to sit with someone in their difficult, dark, lost places bearing witness to what is trying to unfold.

Your story matters. You matter.

Together, let's explore and help you find the path forward.

Education & Credentials

Registered Psychotherapist (RP) - College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). 
Clinical Member - Ontario Society of Registered Psychotherapists (OSRP).
Masters Psychotherapy - Toronto, Ontario.
Transpersonal and Holistic Psychotherapy Diploma - Transformational Arts College, Toronto.
Bachelor of Applied Science Degree (BASc) - Therapeutic Nutrition & Health Sciences, Ryerson University, Toronto.

Committed to ongoing learning & well-being, I participate in postgraduate trainings, personal therapy, workshops and courses, for continuing professional and personal development.

Heal the past. Find your own path.

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Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.

Seek the path that demands your whole being.

- RUMI