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Chronic Pain and Illness

Your body is not a problem to fix — it’s a relationship to tend.

You are whole. You are worthy of care. And you don’t have to do this alone.

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You Don’t Have to Do This Alone

Living with chronic pain or illness can feel isolating and invisible. I understand this not just as a therapist, but as someone with an invisible chronic illness myself. I know how much strength it takes to move through the world when your pain isn’t seen and your grief has no clear language.

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I support people living with chronic pain and illness — diagnosed or not, visible or hidden. Every part of you is welcome here: the exhausted, the frustrated, the hopeful, the angry, and the resilient. This is a space where your experience is believed and met with care and respect.

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I work with people navigating:

  • Chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and autoimmune disorders

  • Cancer at any stage

  • Endometriosis and pelvic or reproductive health challenges

  • Persistent or unexplained pain — migraines, back pain, nerve or pelvic pain

  • Medical trauma and not being believed

  • Neurodivergence, sensory sensitivity, and fatigue

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What therapy offers?

My approach is trauma-informed and rooted in somatics, mindfulness, neuroscience, and lived experience. You don’t have to justify your symptoms or explain why “pushing through” isn’t always possible. I already believe you.

 

Therapy won’t erase pain — but it can change your relationship with it. Pain is real, and healing involves the nervous system, emotions, and the body.

 

Therapy can help you:

  • Reduce pain with somatic and mindfulness tools

  • Heal anxiety, depression, grief, and medical trauma

  • Improve sleep and rebuild safety

  • Deepen body awareness and self-compassion

  • Reclaim your story from shame and dismissal

  • Build sustainable, shame-free energy practices

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How I Work

I integrate somatic therapy, mindfulness, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Polyvagal-informed practices, narrative therapy, and pain science education. Our work is spacious, trauma-informed, and responsive to your lived experience.

Meditations for Chronic Pain

 

1. Pain as a portal to the Divine

 

2. Pendulation Practice (titrating between comfort and discomfort)

 

3. RAIN for Pain (Tara Brach)

 

4. Vagus Nerve Down-Regulation Practice– long exhales, hums, gentle humming/breathing sequence

 

3. Self-Compassionate Body Scan (Kristin Neff) 

 

4. Qi-Flow or Light Visualization Through the Pain Area. 

 

5. Yoga Nidra for Chronic Pain 

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6. Tapping (EFT) for Chronic Pain 

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My Blog Post:

When the Body Says “No”: What Migraines Teach Us About Boundaries, Energy, and Healing

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Land Aknowledgement

I live and practice on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, in what is traditionally called Tkaronto, covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. I honour the enduring presence, stewardship, and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples on these lands.

 

With deep gratitude to the First Peoples and their wisdom, I acknowledge both the ongoing impacts of colonization and the harms that the fields of social work and mental health have caused—and continue to cause—to Indigenous communities.

 

As a settler and uninvited guest, I take responsibility for continually learning, unlearning, and repairing. I commit to practicing in solidarity with Indigenous peoples, supporting justice, healing, and land back, and working toward relationships rooted in accountability and respect.

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