I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor providing online and in-person counselling services for people facing health conditions, illness, disability or injury. I have also worked extensively in cancer care. My services help people adjust to health challenges, better manage symptoms, and improve their overall function and quality of life. I often work with people around concerns related to their health including stress, anxiety, depression, sleep, pain, and fatigue. I also help people with developing coping skills, healthy lifestyles, grief and loss, working their treatment providers, and personal relationships affected by illness.  
  
I draw on 20+ years as a clinician, educator, and researcher to provide a client-centered, evidence-based therapeutic approach integrating counselling psychology, health coaching, and mind-body medicine. Prior to returning to fulltime clinical practice in Canada, I was a tenured Associate Professor of Health Behavior Science at the University of Delaware (2014-2022), where I was Academic Director of UD’s Health Coaching programs and Research Director of the Mind Body Behavior Lab.

My research has been featured in the Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, Evidence-based Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Journal of Women’s Health, and Stress & Health among others. I hold a PhD in Health and Exercise Psychology and MSc in Counselling Psychology, both from the University of Calgary. I also completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Exercise Psychology at the University of Illinois and training in Health Coaching at the University of Delaware.