2SLGBTQIA+ Counselling

My counselling career started at Skipping Stone. A Calgary-based non-profit with a mission to connect trans and gender-diverse youth, adults, and families with comprehensive and low-barrier access to the support they need and deserve.

The work, clients, colleagues, & training all influence who I am as a counsellor today.

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As a queer-identified counsellor living in Alberta, it’s important to me that I create a space for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The world can feel like a pretty scary and messed up place these days. If I can offer support and hold space for whatever you need, I’m here for it.

I’m a self-described ‘forever student’. My desire is to continually grow & learn to meet the needs of my clients. Not everyone has the same language, background, and experiences, and because of this, I genuinely approach each session with curiosity and compassion.

I’m also aware of and regularly check the privilege that I hold, and remind myself how this shows up in counselling.

Topics in 2SLGBTQIA+ Counselling

  • Providing space where there’s less need to explain your story as opposed to cis/het spaces

  • Navigating political climates and their attempts to remove basic human rights

  • Support with coming out / not being safe to come out

  • Affirming the desire to not want to or feel the need to come out

  • Finding spaces to celebrate your ‘queerness’

  • Experience of complex/compounding struggles

  • Anxiety related to the inability and/or difficulty of living authentically

  • Anxiety & Depression resulting from non-acceptance and judgement

  • Experiences of discrimination and oppression

  • Navigating the complexities within a family as a queer individual

  • Perhaps most importantly, finding ways to celebrate our queerness within the community