Tessa supports individuals through pregnancy, birth, and early parenting by acknowledging the real emotional shifts this stage brings. She helps clients move through worries about attachment, identity changes, and relationship shifts with a gentle and affirming approach.

Early sessions focus on building trust, normalizing the experience, and exploring how attachment patterns, neurodiversity, and past experiences may be influencing the present. Together, you will work through values clarification and emotional learnings to create small shifts that feel manageable and supportive.

Tessa works with children and youth by creating a warm, safe, and playful environment where feelings can be explored at their own pace. She uses creative and experiential approaches that help young people express themselves in ways that feel comfortable and natural, whether through conversation, movement, imagination, or art.

Sessions focus on building trust and understanding the emotions and needs beneath behaviours, rather than simply trying to “fix” them.

Tessa supports adults who are navigating neurodivergence, attachment patterns, family of origin dynamics, people-pleasing, and low self-worth.

Early sessions focus on building a comfortable and safe relationship where you can show up as you are. Together, we will explore your life experiences with curiosity, understanding where your beliefs come from and what emotional learnings may have shaped them.

Tessa’s presence is gentle, steady, and compassionate, walking alongside those who join her in therapy.

Through an understanding of the adaptive roots of your patterns we will work in the present moment to take gradual and meaningful steps. 

Tessa provides neuroaffirming, low-demand care. This means sessions are shaped around each client’s natural ways of communicating, processing, and being.

She centers respect, autonomy, and understanding; adjusting pace and expectations so clients never feel pressured to perform or “fit” a certain way of doing therapy.

Tessa is attentive to sensory needs, emotional regulation styles, and differences in communication or interaction. Accommodations may include flexible session formats, soft lighting, reduced fragrances, the use of fidgets or screens, time for quiet moments, or integrating special interests into the work. 

Her role is not to fix or pathologize, but to honor each client’s lived experience and support them in finding what feels steady, safe, and sustainable for them.