Our Team

Meet Amy

Amy understands how overwhelming life can feel when you’re carrying pain beneath the surface. Sometimes it shows up as drinking, overworking, shopping, gambling, or even the weight of watching someone you love struggle. These patterns often start as a way to cope with stress, loss, or hurt that feels too heavy to face alone. But over time, they can leave you feeling stuck, disconnected, and unsure how to move forward. Amy offers a safe, supportive space to talk about what’s happening and begin finding a different way through.

With over eight years of experience helping people navigate harmful patterns and the emotional pain underneath them, Amy has supported women in treatment centres, veterans in transitional housing, and individuals working to rebuild their lives after difficult experiences. She also works with loved ones who feel overwhelmed or uncertain about how to support someone caught in these struggles. Amy understands that these behaviours are rarely about willpower—they’re often rooted in deep attachment wounds and a longing for safety and connection.

Amy also welcomes clients experiencing anxiety and depression, recognizing how closely these challenges can be tied to past trauma and ways of coping that no longer serve. Her approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in trauma-informed care. Drawing on mindfulness-based therapies, somatic approaches (in training), and evidence-based strategies, Amy supports clients in understanding themselves, healing old hurts, and creating healthier, more compassionate ways of living and relating to others.

Areas Of Treatment

Amy works with clients in the following areas:

  • Substance use concerns (alcohol, drugs, prescription medication)
  • Behavioural addictions (gambling, shopping, workaholism, screen use)
  • The impact of living with or loving someone who struggles with addiction
  • Trauma and attachment wounds underlying addictive patterns
  • Anxiety and depression linked to unresolved emotional pain
Approach

Amy’s counselling approach is trauma-informed, compassionate, and collaborative. She believes that harmful patterns are often learned ways of surviving deep pain and disconnection. By exploring the roots of these struggles, Amy helps clients develop self-understanding, heal attachment wounds, and build healthier, more sustainable ways to cope. She draws on mindfulness-based therapies, somatic approaches (in training), and evidence-based addiction counselling to support meaningful, lasting change.

Education & Training
  • Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology – Yorkville University
  • Bachelor of Health Sciences, Addictions Counselling Major – University of Lethbridge
  • Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Level II (in progress)
  • Somatic Therapy (in progress)
  • Mindfulness-Based Treatment for Trauma
  • ASSIST Suicide Intervention
  • Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI)
  • Cultural Competence