Hi, I’m Sarah (she/her)

Before counselling, I worked as a Registered Nurse supporting infants, children, parents, and caregivers. Over the years I witnessed how the medical system fails people, including through my own experience with chronic illness, and how hard it can be to build authentic relationships within that system. I found myself questioning how power and inequity obstruct care, and what we can do differently. Those questions shaped my path to becoming a therapist and how I show up today.

My primary approach is Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), where the relationship we build together is foundational to change. I also draw on somatic interventions and values-based cognitive approaches, working collaboratively to find what fits you. Grief and loss also hold a particular place in my work. Outside of sessions, I volunteer providing grief support and will be co-facilitating a group for those bereaved by traumatic loss.

As a white, settler, cisgender woman, I strive to remain accountable to how my identities and experiences show up in the counselling space. I live between Vancouver and Quito, Ecuador, navigating immigration processes and life between cultures and languages. I hold curiosity for the ways we carry our histories and communities within us, and how systemic forces shape our lives.

Lately I've been rediscovering Muay Thai, exploring ethnobotany, and developing a passion for birding. I'm currently seeing clients under clinical supervision as I finish my Master’s in Counselling Psychology, and will be registered with BCACC upon graduation.