Welcome to my practice. If you're perusing this web-site, life has either taken a turn for the worse or you're ready for growth. Congratulations. This is often a difficult and courageous step.

Whatever is going on, my 20+ years of experience working with adults from across the globe may be helpful. Through our work, my clients have successfully navigated a multitude of symptoms, grown and built meaningful, authentic lives. It is my hope that perusing these pages provides information about my abilities and gives you a sense of my overall vibe. A funny but descriptive word, I know.

I use evidence based treatments (see below for specifics) to engage folks in conversations and exercises that help increase insight, learning, self-awareness, emotional processing and valued actions. Therapy with me involves meaningful conversations and experiential explorations of your chosen areas in an accepting, respectful and kind environment. As we pace the process, we’ll be looking to understand what is happening for you and get you through it in a healing and growth promoting way. With this agenda in mind, I tailor interventions to best respond to peoples’ presenting complaints… I may pull from culturally informed CBT, ACT and will usually start with CPT for PTSD/trauma, if that is a presenting concern. DBT skills training and more general skill acquisition and relational work is inherent in this process. Some may be explicit and more formal, other may be more implicit/in the moment (like co-regulation) & get highlighted as we muddle through. Either way, you are likely to feel accompanied and known in a way that a workshop, app or chat-bot can never do.

Overcoming avoidance (life’s constant culprit to mental health challenges) so you can deal with whatever is in front of you, is usually helped by having a knowledgeable ally. If you're burned out, struggle with mood or medical issues, PTSD, dependence and/or relationship problems (including at work or with systems), and the time has come for healing or if you’re just curious about growing, I invite you get in touch. We can spend some time checking to see whether we are a good fit and assuming so, begin the work ahead.

As a peer reviewed Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) trainer, Dr. G also offers training and consultation for therapists and organizations in the community. Services are available in English, French & Romanian.

Areas of expertise:

• Addictions

• Anxiety Disorders (d/o)

• Bipolar d/o

• Burnout

• Depression & mood d/o

• Discrimination issues

• Divorce

• Emotional disturbance

• Family conflict

• Gender and Sexual Identity concerns

• Grief and Loss