Hi, I’m Annie
(she/they)
Masters of Social Work, Registered Social Worker
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Dissociative Identity
Supporting partners of those with Dissociative Identity
Spiritual Exploration and Expression
Identity Exploration
Burnout
Building relationship to self
Phobias
Kink
Neurodivergence
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Art Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Feminist Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Somatic Therapy
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Individuals over 15+ in…
British Columbia
Ontario
Northwest Territories
Yukon Territory
PEI
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$190 per 50 minute session for new clients
Wednesday and Thursday,
12pm - 9pm ET (9am - 6pm PT)
Friday and Saturday,
9am - 5pm ET (6am - 2pm PT)
You can expect a therapy session with me to feel like…
…a warm, nurturing energy. I picture our sessions like we are watching the ocean, noticing the warm waves as they ebb, flow - as we learn to understand the lessons from within them, and ourselves. Therapy with me is centred in that deep reflection that the water embodies. There can be moments where our energy is put towards building and learning, like the endurance we see in waves. Other times there is the soothing, embracing guidance of the water's presence. Like the ocean, I aim to offer you my presence, and to be witness to all that you wish to share and reflect upon.
Some phrases you may hear me use in sessions:
“Do you want to sit with that?”
“Can we sit with that?”
“What’s it like to share this?”
“Oops, sorry, that loud noise was my cat!”
I define my role as…
…being a guide to you on your journey, and a guest into your life. My role as your guest is to witness your complexity, authenticity, and your unknown. I do so with the knowledge and honouring that your life deserves, and I respect how your body leads you through processing your experiences. As a guide, my role is to walk alongside you, to trust your implicit wisdom and experiences, and guide you through processing and understanding these. Sometimes this may involve teaching (side by side), or navigation (through rocky roads or weather), but as a guide I aim to be a stable, reliable presence through your journeying - a soft place to land.
You’ll enjoy working with me if you’re…
…interested in exploring yourself, and are feeling called to acknowledge the unknown. If you are looking for a provider who is queer-centred, relational and someone who embraces your humanity, we may be a good fit. Here you'll find a person who is open to understanding different parts of who you are, and helping you to understand them too. For those who are wanting support from a person who is familiar with witchery, card reading, spiritual discovery and otherworldly experiences, you may value my presence.
I enjoy clients who…
…are ready to connect with emotions, experiences, and beliefs that they may have struggled connecting with before. I value those who are open to collaboration, reflection, and building self-understanding. Our work would be beneficial for those who have learned coping skills/strategies, and who use these inside and outside of session while we move beyond and into processing related work.
I became a therapist because I want to sit with others through their processing, and help folks navigate the unknown. My prior social work and life experiences show me that centring humanity in healing can be so life changing, and I wanted to be a part of that! I wanted to make a therapeutic space that offers that type of container, one that offers a deeper understanding of self than they may have experienced before.
I love being able to witness the self development of my clients, to highlight them as they grow, change, and embrace who they are. To see this empowers me, and brings me such incredible hope that I then get to pass along to others. I love the chance to be in human connection with others, and to nurture that humanity in those that I meet.
I believe that my steadiness and openness help to make me an effective therapeutic person. Steadiness helps to keep your journeying grounded, exploratory and helps to foster connection. Openness helps me to guide others through their experiences, and to invite them to live their life with similar openness to build self-understanding.
There are so many parts of who I am that contribute to my world as a therapist! My experiences of gender, queerness and feminism are integral to my work, guiding me to centre healing in those communities and acknowledge systemic oppression in life stories. My identity as a witch and magic practitioner also help me to embody practises outside of the westernized paradigms of therapy, that keeps me reflexive and open in my understandings of what therapy can be.
I actively work from the mindset of being a "future ancestor" to the world around me - where I am not just a therapist human in the present, but a guide for those who will be stewards to the earth and community when I am gone. My lived experiences help to foster this, to both acknowledge, communicate, and learn how structural harm influences our hurts, experiences, and healing. This approach centres relationality, kinship and care in my practise, where I can learn from ancestral teachings from my own lineage and those who I meet on the communal path, then pass this onto others.
What Inspires Me:
The Earth inspires me to grow - I see that in my garden at home. I learn many lessons in their ecosystem, the complex networks, the un-earthed terra that continues to sustain life, to survive, even to thrive. This inspires me so much in my therapist journey, to see the way the earth responds to relational care and the reciprocity in the symbiotic growth. I am also continuously inspired by my community-- my family, my friends, and my colleagues at OLP. I have an abundance of teachers in this world, and it is an honour to have their presence and to continue to learn with them.