Ash believes therapy is a space to look at all our different relationships; how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to our world. She will invite your full self to come alive in session with an approach that is both gentle and direct, with heavy doses of humor and common humanity. She sees herself as a companion on your journey, and trusts you to know what’s best for yourself.
Ash enjoys supporting clients with issues related to anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, food and body issues, substance use issues, grief, and end of life issues. Ash uses a diverse approach that is trauma-informed, person-centered, and compassion-based, bringing together interventions from modalities such as solution focused brief therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, somatic awareness, interpersonal psychotherapy, internal family systems, and existentialism.
An important aspect of Ash’s approach is the framework of body liberation, which examines the harmful ways bodies are treated in society based on race, gender, body size, health and disability status. With this in mind, Ash helps her clients to find empowered lifestyles that allow for self-trust, rest, pleasure, dignity, and the celebration of our natural body diversity.
As a white, cisgendered, smallfat, and able-bodied settler on unceded K’ómoks land, Ash is committed to undermining hierarchy within her relationship with clients. Ash also identifies as gray, neurodivergent, existentially agnostic, as well as a newcomer to Canada from the States. On her days off, Ash enjoys paddling on the lake, fiber arts, poetry, thrifting, tarot cards, curling up with a good fantasy or sci-fi, and spending time with her partner.
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