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You may find Virginia helpful if:

• Trauma continues to affect your sense of safety, identity, or relationships

• You are living with complex grief or a painful loss

• You are experiencing dissociation or feeling disconnected from yourself

• Sexual abuse or incest has affected your life

• Chronic illness or pain is taking an emotional toll

• You are adjusting to cultural dislocation or a significant transition

• You are a first responder carrying the effects of difficult experiences

• You want therapy that can include creative, mindful, or body-based approaches

 

What therapy with Virginia is like

Virginia offers a warm, person-centred, and trauma-informed approach. She understands that painful experiences may be recent or long past, and that trauma and grief can develop in layers over time.

Therapy is guided by your individual needs and comfort. Virginia combines compassionate conversation with approaches such as art therapy, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, DBT, movement, and the Safe and Sound Protocol.

You do not need artistic experience to benefit from art therapy. Creative approaches are offered as optional ways to express, explore, and understand experiences that may be difficult to put into words.

Virginia helps clients recognize their existing strengths, reconnect with hope, and develop greater emotional balance and resilience.

 

Areas of Practice

Trauma; complex grief; chronic illness and pain; dissociative disorders; sexual abuse and incest; cultural dislocation; first-responder experiences; relationship difficulties; and major life transitions.

 

Therapeutic Approaches

Art therapy, Internal Family Systems, EMDR, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, DBT, the Safe and Sound Protocol, movement and breathwork, and transpersonal therapy.