About Christine

There has been a common thread throughout my life, which is narcissistic and antagonistic relationships. From mental health diagnoses and substance use disorders within my close family systems, to an emotionally distant parent, and one disastrous intimate partner relationship after another, including a 15-year marriage and divorce from a partner who demonstrated malignant narcissistic characteristics, the hard lessons in relationships never seemed to stop coming for me.

This journey has developed an understanding within me that no matter how the people around me are choosing to live, there is always choice and agency on my part. It took me years to get to the realization that life is an inside job. For a long time I lived with the beliefs that once the people around me “got it together” and lived up to my expectations or if I could live up to others’ expectations, my important relationships would get closer, and life would become good. It seemed I was always chasing, trying to prove myself and gave way more than I ever got back in return. I was depleted. The exhaustion of repeating the same patterns and carrying an emotional weight for what seemed like forever, finally gave way to a redirection that has created peace in my life without shutting out the whole world. Finally.

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 offering outreach counselling services to MCFD-referred families in crisis to help them stabilize, strengthen their relational foundations, and become their own best resource.

Prior to that, I supported women and children fleeing immediate domestic abuse in high-barrier transition houses and on crisis lines, expanding my understanding of intimate partner violence far beyond my own lived experience. I also spent a decade as a Family Service Advisor, guiding families through the loss of a loved one with sensitivity and care.

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

These years of lived experience, service work, and personal growth naturally led me to train as a Registered Counsellor. I offer a grounded, non-judgmental space where you can explore your story, find relief from distress, and reconnect with your own inner wisdom as you meet life’s challenges within your relationships and within yourself.

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

Authenticity

Serenity

Trust

Wisdom

Self-responsibility

Training & Credentials

RTC, Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists Member #3511

RPC, Canadian Professional Counselling Association Member #4489

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)

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Somatic Therapy

  • Coaching

Frameworks that inform my practice:

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Attachment Therapy

  • Trauma-informed Therapy

  • Solution-focused Therapy

  • Antagonism-informed Therapy