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Do you offer virtual sessions for busy professionals?
Yes!
We work virtually with clients across Ontario. Whether you’re in midtown, downtown, East York, or Mississauga, you can work with us from anywhere. We understand the demanding schedules of banking and tech professionals in Toronto. We offer secure virtual sessions that fit around your work commitments.
Yes! if your company covers a registered psychotherapist, my services are covered. Best practice is to call your insurance and verify directly. I’m a registered psychotherapist, and my services may be covered by extended health benefits through providers like Sun Life, Green Shield, or Manulife. You can check with your HR rep or benefits portal (like at Scotiabank, BDC, BMO) to confirm.
Let’s do one session and test it out. If it works for both of us, let’s discuss what it might look like to achieve your goals.

Unfortunately at this time we do not. Our client care coordinator will send you a receipt with all of the information that you will need to submit to your insurance.

We work primarily with professional women, women in leadership, and women of colour who feel like they’re always “on” but still not enough. If you’re the one others lean on—yet secretly feel overwhelmed or stuck—we see you. We support clients across Toronto and Ontario.
  • High-Functioning Anxiety
  • Burnout & Workplace Stress
  • Perfectionism & Overachievement
  • Women in Leadership
  • Dating & Relationship Therapy
  • Trauma-Informed, Culturally Sensitive Care

We use approaches like somatic therapy, nervous system regulation, attachment theory, and practical mindset work to address the root—not just the symptoms.

We get it. You’ve done the work, read the books, maybe even been in therapy before. Our approach is not one-size-fits-all. We blend nervous system work, trauma-informed therapy, and coaching-style directness to meet you where you’re at—whether that’s managing leadership burnout or unpacking childhood messages about success.

Therapy Goals We Can Work On

Professional Goals

Yes, many of my clients work in finance, banking, or tech. They often come to me because they’ve “done all the right things”—degrees, good jobs, saving—but still feel stuck. I understand that it can be hard to find an empathetic ear sometimes when you are envied and have “nothing to complain about”. Just because you are strong doesn’t mean that you don’t feel things deeply… Let’s talk.
You need support too.Yes. I specialize in working with ambitious, high-functioning women—often in finance, tech, or consulting—who are navigating burnout, anxiety, or loneliness behind the scenes.
If you work at Scotiabank, Shopify, Deloitte, or a similar high-performance environments, you’re in the right place.

Yes. I specialize in working with ambitious, high-functioning women—often in finance, tech, or consulting—who are navigating burnout, anxiety, or loneliness behind the scenes. If you work at Scotiabank, Shopify, Deloitte, or a similar high-performance environment, you’re in the right place. Many of my clients feel like they’re constantly “doing well” but feel behind, struggle with work-life balance, or feel disconnected from their success despite external achievements.

These are all signs your nervous system is asking for support. You might be dealing with:
  • Constant fatigue—even after sleep
  • TMJ, stomach issues, or tension headaches
  • Overthinking or replaying conversations
  • Saying “yes” when you mean “no”
  • Perfectionism or skipping self-care
During therapy we help cue you to your body so that you are able to better understand that your body is experiencing stress and how to better regulate and manage those emotions.
Therapy for professional women in banking and tech addresses the unique pressures of male-dominated, high-performance environments. We focus on specific challenges like perfectionism in competitive workplaces, managing professional relationships while maintaining boundaries, and balancing career ambition with personal well-being, all within the context of Toronto’s demanding financial and tech industries. This is also a safe place to discuss the challenges that come when being so successful and still struggling with anxiety. As well as the challenges of dating when so ‘qualified’.
Therapy focuses on healing emotional patterns, processing past experiences, and managing conditions like anxiety or depression. Coaching is more future-oriented and action-based, focusing on specific career and personal goals. For many professional women in Toronto’s banking and tech sectors, we often blend both approaches—addressing underlying emotional patterns while creating actionable strategies for thriving in your career.
Burnout goes beyond typical work stress. Signs include: feeling emotionally drained consistently (not just after a difficult day), cynicism about your work, decreased performance despite working longer hours, physical symptoms like insomnia or frequent illness, and difficulty finding meaning in achievements. Banking and tech professionals often normalize extreme stress, but burnout requires intervention beyond just “pushing through.”
Impostor syndrome is particularly common among women in banking and tech. My approach involves identifying your specific impostor patterns, examining the origins of these beliefs, challenging cognitive distortions with evidence of your competence, developing personalized strategies for managing impostor feelings during high-pressure situations, and building internal validation systems rather than relying solely on external feedback.

Absolutely. You can look like you “have it all” and still feel like you’re barely holding it together. Many of my clients feel chronically exhausted, struggle with overthinking, or can’t stop second-guessing themselves. Therapy gives you the tools to manage the pressure without losing yourself in it.
My approach acknowledges the intersection of gender, race, cultural background, and immigration status that creates unique pressures for BIPOC and immigrant women in Toronto’s banking and tech sectors. We work through experiences of microaggressions, cultural code-switching, familial expectations, and the additional burden of representation, while honoring your cultural strengths and developing tailored strategies for navigating predominantly white institutions.
This experience is common among immigrant women in banking and tech. Therapy provides a space to examine these internalized pressures, distinguish between realistic career requirements and self-imposed standards, process experiences of bias, and develop sustainable strategies for excellence without self-sacrifice. We’ll work on building confidence in your unique perspective and contributions while establishing healthier boundaries.
Being the only woman, person of color, or immigrant in professional settings creates unique stressors. Our work together will help you process these experiences, distinguish between external challenges and internalized anxiety, develop practical strategies for maintaining confidence in hostile environments, build supportive networks, and advocate for yourself effectively while preserving your wellbeing.
Speaking informally I understand some of the opportunities that might exist within your organisation and more broadly for better mentorship opportunities, better ways of supporting yourself and have often been able to encourage clients to find and feel better connected with mentors and sponsors who are able to champion them and the work that they do.
Perfectionism in this context often serves as both a protective strategy and a response to systemic bias. Our work acknowledges these realities while helping you distinguish between excellence and perfectionism, identify when perfectionism is protecting you versus harming you, develop more self-compassion without lowering standards, and channel your drive for excellence in ways that support rather than undermine your wellbeing and career longevity.
We will identifyfy what might be harmful practices vs just trying to be helpful but missing the mark. While also acknowledging the unique challenges you face without you having to constantly justify or explain. I get it. You will not feel like you will have to quetion your version of reality here.

Relationship Goals

Many professional women in Toronto’s financial and tech sectors find dating challenging because of demanding work schedules, long working hours, and the dynamics of dating in environments where they’re often outnumbered by men. It can be easier to date within similar work contexts – i.e. you share similar work trajectories. But even with that the reality is that some of your credentials and job titles are intimidating for potential partners. It can be tricky to know how much to reveal when you’re dating. We’ll explore how to navigate these challenges while staying true to yourself and finding meaningful connections.
Finding balance between career ambition and relationship nurturing is a common challenge. We’ll work on establishing clear boundaries between work and personal time, communicating your career commitments effectively to partners, identifying relationship values that align with your professional life, and developing strategies for meaningful connection even during intense work periods—all while avoiding the trap of perfectionism in both areas. While also looking at whether this trope of being too busy to date might be hiding some avoidant attachment dating and relationship styles.
You’ve built the career, the self-awareness, and the independence—so why does dating still feel so discouraging?” This disconnect often stems from applying professional achievement strategies to relationships, which follow different rules.
Dating requires vulnerability, uncertainty, and emotional risk in ways your professional life might not. There is a lot of ambiguity in relationships. We’ll explore how to navigate this terrain with confidence while honoring your achievements and independence. (If only you could use the skills that you’ve had to get new jobs like informational interviews and your LinkedIn skills but with the right support you can feel as confident with dating as moving up the career ladder.
Dating app fatigue is extremely common. The problem isn’t you. If dating feels like a series of letdowns—or like having a PhD and still being stuck in an entry-level emotional job—we help you make sense of patterns, attachment wounds, and nervous system reactions so you can date with clarity and confidence.
During the pandemic everyone was climbing the ladder of professional success but there is a way in which people feel a few years behind in their dating life – that is real. We’ll examine your dating patterns, refine your approach to screening potential partners, develop strategies for more meaningful early connections, and ensure you’re not unconsciously sabotaging promising relationships due to work patterns or past experiences.
What if it was possible to be in a healthy relationship that even if it ended you would not be net neutral but net positive? We can work together to create a plan where dating does not feel damaging.
Wanting an equal partner who respects your ambition, intelligence, and independence isn’t asking too much. The challenge isn’t your standards but rather finding alignment in values, emotional intelligence, and life vision. We’ll clarify what true compatibility looks like for you beyond the superficial checkboxes, distinguish between non-negotiable values and preferences that have flexibility, and develop strategies for effectively evaluating potential partners without creating unnecessary barriers.
Sometimes it just means that we have to update your operating system that might be unawares holding biases from a much younger place. 6 feet? Someone who looks a certain way? When you can understand what it would be like to feel happy with someone some of these other qualifiers might seem less important.
Readiness for a serious relationship isn’t about having achieved specific career milestones or having perfectly balanced work-life integration. Instead, it’s about emotional availability, self-awareness, and willingness to prioritize connection.
We can work on the push/pull resistance you might have towards wanting a relationship and also being fearful of losing your autonomy or ability to have control over your life.
We’ll assess your current capacity for relationship building, identify any patterns of using work to avoid intimacy, and develop strategies for creating space for love without compromising your professional goals.
Finding commitment-minded partners requires clarity about your own intentions and effective communication of these intentions. We’ll develop strategies for identifying potential partners who share your relationship goals, craft clear ways to communicate your desire for something meaningful without creating pressure, recognize early signs of alignment or misalignment in relationship intentions, and expand your social circles beyond dating apps to increase opportunities for meaningful connections.
Overthinking in relationships often stems from the same analytical skills that make you successful professionally. While beneficial in your career, this hyperanalysis can create anxiety and misinterpretations in personal relationships.
We’ll work on recognizing when your analytical mind is helping versus hindering, developing mindfulness techniques to stay present in interactions rather than ruminating, establishing healthy communication patterns that reduce uncertainty, and building trust in your intuition. While also being more confident in handling the ambiguity and vulnerability that comes with being in relationships.

Life Goals

Feeling anxious is completely normal, you’re at a point where you’ve built some stability, but you’re also realizing what doesn’t fulfill you long-term. The fear often comes from uncertainty, financial risks, and stepping away from the identity you’ve built so far.
When you have achieved a certain level of career success it can feel like your identity is wrapped up in that career. It can be hard to hold meaning for yourself outside of that career. You might fear that you may never sound as good in your second language but with time and the right attitude you might build something more compelling than the thing you fell into.
Therapy can help you process these feelings, build confidence, and create a clear action plan.
There’s rarely a “perfect” moment. What’s more important is tuning into whether your current path still feels aligned with your goals and values. In therapy, we work together to explore what you want — not just what feels safe or expected.
We will work to identify what you might need to support yourself in the change as well as who you might need to support you.
Absolutely not. In 5 years you will be 5 years older but what you have built now might last a lifetime — many people pivot multiple times over their lifetime. Starting now means you’ll build skills, networks, and resilience earlier than you realize.
Therapy can help reframe these fears and replace them with a growth-oriented mindset.
  • Building self-trust and self-confidence
  • Managing imposter syndrome
  • Redefining personal and professional goals
  • Balancing ambition with self-care
  • Developing financial and emotional plans for transition
  • Setting boundaries with family or societal expectations
Knowing your goal is a great start — but the path to achieving it can still feel overwhelming. Therapy provides emotional support, practical coping tools, and accountability as you move through challenges like self-doubt, burnout, or unexpected obstacles. Therapy is the place to bring your resistance. You can bring all of the scaries and distractions that you have that have kept you playing small.
Completely. Big dreams almost always come with big emotions. Therapy can help you hold space for both the excitement and the fear — without letting either one derail you.

Time doesn’t change patterns. That’s why we work together.

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