ADHD Family Support and Somatic Therapy
In Person Services in the West Kootenays - Nelson, Castlegar, Rossland, Trail
Virtually throughout BC and Internationally
Individual Somatic Therapy for Adults
Healing Your Nervous System, Understanding Yourself, Reclaiming Your Capacity to Thrive
Whether you're navigating relationship challenges, healing from past wounds, seeking to understand your ADHD, or feeling disconnected from yourself, there is a path to genuine regulation and thriving.
Beyond Surface Solutions
If you've tried talk therapy but felt something was missing - like the real work was happening somewhere your words couldn't reach - you might be ready for somatic therapy. If you notice patterns in your relationships, your stress responses, or how you move through the world, and you're ready to address what's actually happening in your nervous system, you're in the right place.
I work with adults who are ready to move beyond insight alone to work directly with the body, the nervous system, and the attachment patterns that shape how we relate to ourselves and others.
What Brings Adults to This Work
Relationship Patterns & Attachment Wounds
You notice patterns repeating in your relationships - difficulty trusting, fear of abandonment, walls that keep people out, or losing yourself in connection with others. You sense these patterns trace back to earlier experiences, and you're ready to heal them at the root.
Late ADHD Diagnosis
Maybe you just received your diagnosis and suddenly your whole life makes sense - and also doesn't. You're grieving what wasn't understood earlier while trying to build new understanding of yourself. You need support that goes deeper than "here are some coping strategies" to actually heal the shame and build genuine capacity.
Nervous System Dysregulation
You experience anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, or chronic stress. Your body feels activated or collapsed much of the time. You struggle with sleep, digestion, chronic tension, or unexplained physical symptoms. You know something is off in your nervous system but don't know how to shift it.
Life Transitions & Identity
You're navigating major changes - relationship endings or beginnings, career shifts, becoming a parent, loss, or questioning who you are and what you want. You need support that honors the complexity of transformation.
Disconnection From Self
You feel numb, shut down, or like you're going through the motions. You've lost touch with your body, your intuition, or what you actually want. You're ready to come back to yourself.
Living With or Loving Someone With ADHD
Even if you don't have ADHD yourself, living with or parenting someone who does impacts your nervous system. You need support for your own regulation, your relationship dynamics, and understanding the ADHD experience from the inside.
Parental Burnout
You're giving everything to your kids and have nothing left for yourself. You feel dysregulated, reactive, or constantly exhausted. You want to be the parent you envision but your nervous system won't cooperate.
My Approach:
Somatic, Attachment-Based, Nervous System-Informed
Traditional talk therapy often misses what's happening in your body. Cognitive strategies alone can't address nervous system patterns formed early in life. My approach integrates:
Somatic Awareness
We work with your body's wisdom, noticing sensations, tracking activation and shutdown, and building capacity to be present with your internal experience. Your body holds the story of your nervous system - we learn to listen.
Attachment Healing
Many of the struggles you face today - difficulty regulating, relational challenges, shame spirals - trace back to early attachment experiences. We create a secure therapeutic relationship where you can experience attunement, repair ruptures, and build new relational patterns.
Polyvagal Understanding
Through the lens of polyvagal theory, we understand your nervous system states - when you're in fight/flight activation, when you collapse into shutdown, and how to access ventral vagal safety and connection. You'll learn to recognize your patterns and build pathways to regulation.
Developmental Perspective on ADHD
If you have ADHD, we explore it not just as a disorder to manage but as a sensitive nervous system that developed in response to your environment. When you understand your ADHD through this lens, shame dissolves and genuine healing becomes possible.
Trauma-Informed Practice
Whether or not you identify as having experienced trauma, I approach our work with trauma sensitivity - honouring your pace, respecting your defenses, and creating safety for the vulnerable parts of you to emerge.
What We Work On Together
ADHD & Nervous System Regulation:
Understanding your ADHD through a developmental and nervous system lens
Building genuine self-regulation capacity (beyond willpower and forcing)
Working with executive function challenges somatically
Addressing rejection sensitivity and emotional overwhelm
Healing ADHD-related shame and internalized narratives
Attachment & Relational Healing:
Healing attachment wounds from childhood
Building secure attachment patterns in adult relationships
Working with trust, vulnerability, and intimacy
Understanding and shifting relational patterns
Developing earned secure attachment
Nervous System Patterns:
Recognizing activation, shutdown, and safety states
Building capacity to stay present with difficult emotions
Working with chronic stress, anxiety, or overwhelm
Somatic processing of stored stress and trauma
Creating sustainable self-regulation practices
Identity & Self-Understanding:
Integrating a late ADHD diagnosis into your sense of self
Healing internalized shame and self-judgment
Reclaiming parts of yourself that were shut down or hidden
Building compassion for your younger self
Developing authentic self-expression
Life Transitions & Challenges:
Navigating relationship changes or ruptures
Career transitions and finding aligned work
Parenting challenges and breaking intergenerational patterns
Major life transitions (moves, loss, identity shifts)
Building the life you actually want (not just managing the one you have)
Parenting & Breaking Intergenerational Patterns:
Managing parental overwhelm, burnout, and reactivity
Healing triggers that your children activate
Building capacity to stay regulated when your child isn't
Breaking patterns from your own childhood
Developing sustainable co-regulation practices
Working with parental guilt, shame, and grief
Creating repair after ruptures
My Background & Approach
I'm a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) with over 20 years of experience in therapeutic practice, child and youth care, and early childhood education. I also received my own ADHD diagnosis at age 38, which completely reframed my understanding of myself and deepened my capacity to support others on similar journeys.
I bring a multidisciplinary background including extensive training in somatic therapy, attachment-based approaches, and nervous system science. Currently pursuing my Master of Social Work, I remain committed to understanding how developmental, relational, and systemic factors shape our nervous systems and our lives.
My practice is grounded in authenticity and honouring the whole person - the spiritual alongside the clinical, the body's wisdom alongside psychological understanding. I create space where all parts of you are welcome.
How We Work Together
Individual Therapy Sessions
We meet regularly (weekly or bi-weekly) to explore your patterns, build regulation capacity, and create the changes you're seeking. Recommended session length is 90 minutes and is a blend of talk therapy with somatic awareness and nervous system work.
Somatic Processing
When needed, we slow down to work directly with what's happening in your body - tracking sensations, working with activation or shutdown, and building capacity to process what's been held.
Collaborative & Attuned
This is your process. I follow your pace, honour your wisdom about what you need, and work collaboratively to create the conditions for healing. I bring my expertise in nervous system science and attachment, but you bring the expertise about your own experience.
Location & Format:
In-person sessions in Nelson, BC
Virtual sessions available throughout British Columbia, Canada, and internationally
Serving the Kootenays including Kaslo, Salmo, Slocan, Castlegar, Trail, and Rossland
90 minutes recommended for in-person sessions, 60 minutes for virtual
What People Say
"It's hard to put into words how these sessions have impacted my life because it has been such a felt sense.
Before coming to you, I was afraid of saying yes to certain experiences in life because I couldn't trust my ability to say no.
I didn't even know what no felt like in my body because I was so disconnected from my own desires.
The sense of agency I now have has opened my world up to an abundance of connection I was craving.
I no longer see future relationships as this weird bird sculpture coming at me making me anxious, but rather as opportunities to welcome others into my rich inner world, or not, depending on how I see fit.
I now have the ability to choose- for that I am eternally grateful."
Investment
Session fees and package options available upon consultation. I offer a limited number of sliding scale spots.
Getting Started
We begin with a free 20-minute consultation to discuss what you're seeking and whether we're a good fit to work together.
You Don't Have to Keep Struggling Alone
Whether you're newly understanding your ADHD, healing attachment wounds, or seeking deeper nervous system healing, there is a path forward. You deserve support that honours the complexity of your experience and addresses the roots of dysregulation, not just the symptoms.
Questions? Email me at [email protected]
About Securely Thriving
Securely Thriving, is founded out of both lived experience and professional conviction: that meaningful support for ADHD must go deeper than behavior—and begin with connection, safety, and relationship. As a parent, educator, and somatic therapist, I’ve seen how nervous system regulation, attachment, and practical tools can transform not just a moment, but a whole family or classroom culture. This isn’t about perfection—it’s about creating the conditions where adults and children can feel safe enough to grow. Securely Thriving exists to walk alongside families, educators, and communities doing this brave, beautiful, often overwhelming work—with clarity, care, and compassion.
Find Your Ground
Compassionate Support for Families and Schools Cultivating Clear-Loving Boundaries, Thriving Relationships, and ADHD Empowerment.
Build Clarity, Connection, and Calm - one step at a time.
Securely Thriving
Nelson, BC V1L 4H6
Email: [email protected]
