Nice to Meet You.

Hi, I’m Mac (she, her) —

I’m supervised Student Therapist in my final year of studying Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Gestalt Institute of Toronto, as part of a Five Year Training Program where I’m currently working towards registration with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO). I’m also a student member of the Canadian Association of Psychodynamic Therapy (CAPT). 

In addition to my training in Gestalt Psychotherapy, I’m a fully trained Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP), having completed a three year professional training with the SOS Internationale and Somatic Experiencing International in Canada and the U.K. between 2020-2023. I’ve trained in and have facilitated movement modalities such as Movement for Trauma, contemporary Pilates, yoga, and meditation for the last decade, which is a lens that I apply to all of my work with clients.

For students pursuing professional training with Somatic Experiencing International, founded by Dr. Peter Levine, I’m an approved to offer Personal Sessions at the Beginning Level and am an Intermediate-Level Assistant in the SE™ Professional Training Program.

TLDR:

Ultimately, I get my kicks from exploring the therapeutic process as creative experimentation for feeling into your fullness and seeing the ways relational, body-based practices can help to restore a full sense of self and a felt sense of nervous system resiliency.

  • Anxiety*

  • Developmental Trauma*

  • Relationship Issues*

  • Trauma & PTSD*

  • Chronic Illness

  • Chronic Pain

  • Coping Skills

  • Depression

  • Embodiment Challenges (Difficulty in feeling or connecting to one’s body)

  • Emotional Disturbances

Areas of Focus:

  • Ongoing | 5-Year Program in Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Gestalt Institute of Toronto started in 2021 — Expected completion in June 2026

  • Intermediate Level Assistant and Beginning Level Personal Session Provider with Somatic Experiencing International founded by Dr. Peter Levine (2024)

  • Certificate in Somatic Experiencing | 3-Year Professional Training Program with Somatic Experiencing International (2020-2023)

  • Certification in Reformer Pilates (2024)

  • Movement for Trauma Level I with Jane Clapp (2021)

  • 200 Hour Contemporary Pilates Training (2019)

  • 200 Hour Vinyasa Yoga & Meditation Training (2015-2016)

Education & Training:

As a white, cis-, able-bodied woman, the learnings & un-learnings in what create safer and more accessible spaces is a lifelong practice that I am committed to. I strive to challenge oppression in all of its forms in myself, others, and systems and stay open to receiving such.

This includes forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, fat phobia, and any other forms of discrimination and stigmatization.

I believe that anti-oppressive practices are critical in building a future where access is abundant and belonging is felt. I aim to hold an accountable space and remain open to ways of best supporting the needs and dignity of every person that I work with.

To continually deepen my ability to practice ways of better supporting the needs and dignity of the folks I work with, some my training has included:

  • Reverence and Repair with Marika Heinrichs - Wildbody Somatics (2023)

  • Comfortable Conversations About Race with Natalie Haynes (2023)

  • Reclaiming Pleasure: Embodied Joy in Trauma Recovery and Social Change with Kai Cheng Thom (2022)

  • Reaching In, Reaching Out with New Leaf Foundation (2021)

  • Sharing Privilege with Robin Lacambra (2020)

Belonging Practices:

Feel It For Yourself

Feel It For Yourself