I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor with more than a decade of experience across healthcare, community mental health, and private practice.

I specialize in trauma, ADHD and neurodivergence, attachment, relationships, parenting, perinatal mental health, emotional regulation, and nervous system regulation. My work brings together evidence-based practice and real human experience, helping people understand not only what they’re feeling, but why, and what to do about it.

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I’m the author of Same Page Parenting: Align With Your Partner to Raise Happy, Confident, and Resilient Kids, which brings attachment, relationships, mental health, and parenting research into everyday family life.

I also created The Therapy Buddy: A Journal for Processing Therapy Sessions and authored Supporting Your Partner Postpartum: A Realistic Feminist Guide for Non-Birthing Partners.

My writing has also appeared in BCACC Insights Magazine, including The Unique Challenges of ADHD in Motherhoodand Being Human First, alongside published articles, interviews, expert contributions, and book excerpts across parenting and mental health media.

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My work extends beyond the therapy room into speaking, media, and education, where I translate psychology, research, and clinical concepts into conversations people can actually understand, remember, and use. I speak on topics including parenthood, relationships, attachment, trauma, ADHD, neurodivergence, emotional regulation, and the nervous system.

I’ve shared this work through instagram (@novacaretherapy), professional conferences, podcasts, media interviews, publications, workshops, and online education, as well as with a growing community on Instagram. I’ve been invited to speak at conferences, contribute expert commentary to publications, join podcast conversations, and provide education on the psychology behind how we relate, cope, parent, and heal.

I’m available for keynotes, panels, podcasts, media commentary, workshops, professional trainings, conferences, and educational collaborations. Whether I’m speaking to clinicians, parents, organizations, or a broader public audience, my goal is to make complex ideas feel human, relevant, and genuinely useful.

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Sometimes you know exactly why you’re struggling. Other times, you just know you’re anxious, overwhelmed, people pleasing, shutting down, or reacting in ways you don’t totally understand.

We can get curious about what’s underneath it, including trauma, childhood experiences, family of origin, grief, breakups, attachment, boundaries, inner child work, emotional regulation and nervous system regulation. The goal isn’t to never get triggered. It’s to understand yourself better and have more choice in what happens next.

Description text goes hereADHD is so much more than being distracted. It can show up in overwhelm, emotional regulation, relationships, parenting, rejection sensitivity, burnout, executive functioning and the constant feeling that you should somehow be doing life better.

Instead of trying to make your brain work like everyone else’s, we figure out how your brain works and what actually helps.

Relationships have a funny way of bringing all our stuff to the surface. We can look at what’s happening underneath the conflict, not just tell you to “communicate better.”

This can include attachment, communication, infidelity and betrayal, boundaries, people pleasing, family of origin, relationship patterns, breakups, grief, intimacy and rebuilding trust. We’ll get curious about the cycle you’re caught in, where it came from, and how to do something different.

Parenthood can bring your entire history into the room. Pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood and parenting can stir up identity, relationships, ADHD, childhood wounds, attachment, anxiety, resentment, guilt and patterns you really don’t want to pass down.

We can work on parenting triggers, nervous system and emotional regulation, postpartum mental health, invisible load, boundaries, family patterns and breaking intergenerational cycles, without expecting you to become some perfectly regulated parent.