Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Ash enjoys supporting clients with issues related to anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, food and body, substance use, grief, and end of life. Ash uses an eclectic approach that is trauma-informed, person-centered, and compassion-based, bringing together interventions from IP, ACT, DBT, SFBT, IFS, somatic awareness, and existentialism.
My Background and Approach
My approach is a collaborative exploration that toggles between our many relationships; to self, to others, and to our world. Authenticity, curiosity, compassion, and autonomy are virtues that inform my sessions. I will invite your full self to come alive in session with an approach that is both gentle and direct, with heavy doses of humor and commiseration. I see myself as your companion as you journey through the woods. While I may hold a lantern to better illuminate your map, you ultimately hold the wisdom to decipher its words and get us home. As a white, cisgendered, smallfat, and able-bodied settler on unceded K'ómoks land, I am committed to undermining hierarchy within my relationship with clients. I also identify as gray, neurodivergent, existentially agnostic, as well as a newcomer to Canada from the States. On my days off I enjoy time in nature, poetry, tarot cards, thrifting, curling up with a a good scifi or fantasy, and my sweet dog Oberon.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
As humans, all our behaviors come from adaptive and intelligent strategies that keep us safe. I believe that in acknowledging and befriending our many parts, even those we may initially find destructive, we can find empowerment through self-leadership and integration. Defining life on our own terms is an important part of retaining power in a world that often feels chaotic, absurd, and violent. I enjoy supporting clients in connecting to meaning, ritual, and myth in a modern world, as well as the expansive and transformative power of personal and collective grief. The framework of body liberation is foundational to my approach. This lens examines the harmful ways bodies are treated in society based on race, gender, body size, health and disability status, and finds ways to pursue a more liberatory lifestyle that allows for self-trust, rest, pleasure, dignity, and the celebration of our natural body diversity