About
Carrie is a Registered Social Worker with over 10 years of experience. She is passionate about supporting mothers and parents during any stage of the perinatal period, from creating a birth plan for the baby’s delivery to providing treatment for anxiety, depression, grief and loss, difficulty bonding with the baby and stress in the couple relationship. Becoming a mother can feel isolating, overwhelming, lonely and overstimulating, and new mothers often struggle with feelings of guilt, shame, anger and a loss of self or identity. Carrie provides a safe space for processing these feelings and supports mothers to develop practical tools for coping and to build confidence meeting their child’s needs.
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Carrie welcomes all parents to participate in therapy and has worked with fathers, 2SLGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Carrie recognizes that not all parents are cisgender, heterosexual or Canadian-born and she welcomes parents of all identities, cultures and backgrounds to explore their parenting and mental health journey without judgement. Through a social justice lens, Carrie offers a therapeutic space that affirms and validates clients’ lived experiences of discrimination, injustice, and systemic and institutional oppression. She recognizes her own biases and privilege, and invites client feedback when she can do better.
In a counselling session with Carrie, you can expect a trauma-informed, relational and attachment- based lens that prioritizes safety, connection and client-led progress. She provides psychoeducation about neuroscience to learn about your baby’s brain development and your own body’s neurobiology and stress response systems. It is common for trauma from the past to resurface after giving birth, and Carrie is there to make sense out of these changes while meeting each person where they’re at. Carrie helps you to break hurtful cycles of care and to cultivate your ability to set boundaries with others when needed. It is okay to tell your mother-in-law no when it’s not working for you.
Carrie also provides support navigating unhealthy relationships, including problems with violence, controlling behaviour and toxicity. Clients are invited to explore interpersonal struggles and to develop insight into what fosters a healthy, lasting relationship. Are you pushing away or attracting healthy relationships? Carrie helps cultivate insight into your ‘inner working model’ or ‘default settings’ that may be keeping you stuck in unhelpful and dysfunctional communication patterns. Carrie offers the Adult Attachment Interview as a therapeutic tool for growing insight into your interpersonal relationships, patterns and attachment style.
When she’s not working, Carrie is a mother to one little person and one very large Great Dane. She loves being outside in nature, reading fiction, travelling and trying new foods.
Working from a holistic, person-centred, strength-based lens.
