About Christine

There has been a common thread woven throughout much of my life - navigating narcissistic and antagonistic relationship dynamics, emotional unpredictability within close family systems, supporting loved ones living with substance use struggles, profound grief, and the exhaustion of losing myself while trying to hold everything together.

For many years, I believed that if the people around me eventually changed, became emotionally available, healed, or lived up to my expectations, then my relationships would finally feel safe and fulfilling. I also believed that if I worked harder, gave more, stayed understanding enough, or proved my worth, I could create the closeness and stability I longed for.

Instead, I became emotionally depleted.

Over time, the repeated patterns within my relationships, combined with experiences of complex grief, caregiving stress, relational trauma, and surviving highly antagonistic dynamics, led me toward a deeper understanding: life is an inside job.

These combined experiences, both personal and professional, naturally led me toward becoming a counsellor.

Today, I offer a steady, non-judgmental space for people navigating narcissistic abuse, antagonistic relational stress, codependency, addiction-related family pain, and complex grief. My approach is rooted in compassion, honesty, emotional safety, and the belief that healing does not require abandoning yourself or forcing impossible relationship decisions before you are ready.

You deserve support that honours both the complexity of your relationships and the wisdom of your own inner experience.

That realization did not mean shutting myself off from others or abandoning meaningful relationships. It meant learning how to develop internal safety, discernment, healthier boundaries, self-trust, and the ability to remain connected to myself even when relationships around me are complicated.

This journey profoundly shaped both my personal healing and the work I do today.

Professionally, I bring a wide spectrum of experience supporting people through some of life’s most vulnerable moments. I currently work part-time as a Family Preservation Worker supporting MCFD-referred families in crisis as they work toward stabilization and becoming their own best resource.

Prior to this role, I supported women and children fleeing domestic abuse in high-barrier transition houses and worked on crisis lines, deepening my understanding of trauma, coercive controlling dynamics, emotional survival strategies, and family violence.

I also spent a decade as a Family Service Advisor at two major cemeteries, walking alongside families through grief and loss with care, steadiness, and compassion.

And long before becoming a counsellor, I spent years as a hairstylist where I first learned the art of listening, presence, and earning trust through authentic human connection.

Here are the Top 5 Values for My Life and Counselling Practice (Walking the Talk):

Authenticity

Emotional Safety

Trust

Discernment

Inner Responsibility

Training and Credentials

Master Practitioner of Clinical Counselling (MPCC), Canadian Professional Counselling Association #4489

ACT for Behavioural Addictions (2026)

Parts Work Therapy (2026)

Introductory Motivational Interviewing & Coaching – Change Talk Associates (2026)

Bilateral Stimulation, a Component of EMDR Therapy (2025)

DBT & Trauma Dual Certification: Proven Strategies for Clients’ Emotional Regulation, Trauma Integration, and Deep Relational Repair with Self and Others (2025)

Evergreen Certifications, Narcissistic Abuse Treatment Clinician (2024)

Mental Health First Aid (2024)

Professional Counselling Diploma, Rhodes Wellness College (2023)

Certified Life Skills Coach, Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (2021)  

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

  • Parts Work Therapy

  • Strengths-based Therapy

  • Somatic Therapy

Frameworks That Inform My Practice:

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Attachment Therapy

  • Trauma-informed Therapy

  • Solution-focused Therapy

  • Antagonism-informed Therapy

  • Coaching