Amanda works with youth and adults navigating a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, relationship challenges, and questions of self-worth. She has a special interest in supporting individuals exploring neurodiversity, attachment wounds, and inner child work. Amanda offers a warm, grounding presence and strives to co-create a space where clients feel safe, seen, and empowered to explore their stories at a pace that feels right for them.
Before becoming a therapist, Amanda worked as an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor, where she supported newcomers in navigating language barriers, cultural adjustment, and complex identity transitions. This experience deepened her understanding of how systemic, cultural, and linguistic dynamics can impact mental health, and continues to inform her inclusive and intersectional approach to counselling.
Amanda holds a Master of Counselling degree from Briercrest College & Seminary. She draws from a range of modalities including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Systems, and somatic theory. She also integrates art therapy approaches to help clients deepen self-understanding when it’s difficult to express their feelings in words. Her practice is rooted in a trauma-informed and client-centered lens, always honouring each person’s lived experience and cultural context.
Amanda believes that healing begins in relationship—with ourselves and with others—and that the therapeutic space can be a powerful site of transformation. With compassion and curiosity, she supports clients in navigating painful emotions, making sense of their past, and moving toward greater alignment, clarity, and resilience. She brings a thoughtful, curious presence to her work and feels deeply honored to accompany clients on their healing journeys.
Outside of the therapy room, Amanda enjoys drawing and painting, hiking in nature, and getting lost in a good playlist.
