I began Fern Creek Counselling in Nelson, on unceded Sinixt tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land), in August 2022, after practicum and supervision with my mentor and Narrative Therapist Sarah Beth Hughes.

Prior to counselling, I taught Grade 6 in Surrey, and then Grades 7-9 in Nelson. You’d often find our classroom weaving circle time, mental health conversations, and community projects into our academics. I was then school counsellor at Trafalgar Middle School and Salmo Elementary, during which I completed a Masters in Counselling Psychology.

Fern Creek Counselling is named after the two streets I grew up on, Fernwood Road and Bullock Creek. Ferns are ancient, lore-rich, resilient, mysterious plants that show us the power of adaptability and enduring power. Their “seeds” can also make you invisible, should you need.

Creeks remind me of neuropathways, in their transportation of water (emotion/information) through earth (the body/the mind).

Hence, Fern Creek Counselling was conceived as a place where your resilience and experience will be welcomed, held, and acknowledged.

My work is influenced by Carl Jung, Gabor Maté (with whom I’ve studied), Rachel Ricketts, Toko-Pa Turner, Liz Forrest, and Indigenous Matriarchs of the Wet’suwet’en, Gitxsan, Tolteca, Métis, Sinixt, and Ojibwa nations.

I am currently supervised by Narrative Therapist and non-pathologizing researcher Michael Towers who lives in Kelowna on the tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land) of the syilx people.