You are ambitious and thrive on connection, but you've lost your drive and constantly feel behind and overwhelmed. You aren't calling your friends because they don't understand where you are at. You hesitate to commit to plans because you don't know how you will feel that day. Your emotions regularly take over your day making it difficult for you to complete your tasks. You know you are capable of more, you wonder if you are depressed, but you are having difficulty pinpointing what's wrong. You just know that you don't want every day to feel like survival, you want to thrive. 

Maybe you are also a parent doing the best you can but feeling at a loss on how to support your kiddos. You want to raise them differently than you were raised but don't know what that looks like. You want to show up for them the way you needed as a kid but you find their behaviours triggering and respond in ways you regret.  

My passion is to support clients with complex and developmental trauma, particularly as it shows up as depression and/or anxiety. I work through an attachment and nervous system lens, using mostly internal family systems and somatic therapies, though I incorporate other therapies such as acceptance commitment therapy. 

associate therapist

Mikaela Courchesne

MACP, RP (Qualifying)

Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)