Roaming Psychotherapy
North
Roaming Psychotherapy
North
The Roaming Psychotherapist
Hi! I'm Annie. The therapist I am today wasn't shaped by textbooks alone, it was shaped by real life. Before I ever opened a psychology book, I'd already witnessed the realities of addiction, abuse, loss, and survival. I spent the first half of my life in rural Northern Ontario where hard lives weren't the exception, they were the norm. I saw people doing the best they could with nervous systems shaped by pain. I learned early that behavior makes sense when you understand the story behind it and judgment rarely helps anyone heal. Combined with over 20 years of clinical experience, these lived experiences allow me to sit with the parts of people that often feel too much, are too messy, or too broken to show anyone else. Everyone has a story that deserves understanding and witnessing and that's the space I strive to create in the therapy room. Whatever brought you here, I'm glad you found your way.
For the black sheep, the misfits, the misunderstood
What if not fitting in has been your superpower all along and no one gave you the damn memo? Maybe it was never something to fix, but something to understand, learn from, and befriend. As a late diagnosed ADHD woman, I understand the intersection of neurodiversity and trauma not just clinically, but personally. I bring that into the room with compassion, respect, and (sometimes blunt) honesty because I know what it’s like to feel out of place, to grow up navigating a world that wasn’t built for your nervous system, and to wonder why everyone else but you got the secret life handbook. I work with the outsiders, the overthinkers, the deep feelers, the people who have perfected the art of looking fine while internally running 47 tabs at once. If you’ve ever felt out of place, misunderstood, or like you were built for a different planet, timeline, or operating system, welcome. You belong here.
Real Therapy for real life
Unfiltered
Unfiltered
Unfiltered
Therapy with me is honest, grounded and sometimes a little blunt in the best way. We will talk about the hard stuff, slow things down, notice patterns and old wounds that keep showing up in your life and figure out a way forward that works for you. I'm serious about the work, and I also use humor when I feel it might be helpful because so
Therapy with me is honest, grounded and sometimes a little blunt in the best way. We will talk about the hard stuff, slow things down, notice patterns and old wounds that keep showing up in your life and figure out a way forward that works for you. I'm serious about the work, and I also use humor when I feel it might be helpful because sometimes a well timed laugh is exactly what's needed to get unstuck and lighten the load. Also, since emotional breakdowns, parenting struggles and relationship blow ups don't neatly happen between 9 and 5 on weekdays, I offer a flexible schedule whenever possible. As a relational Therapist, I care far more about connection than about any specific modality. I use the usual alphabet soup of therapeutic modalities and it absolutely informs the work I do. Techniques matter, but I firmly believe that meaningful and lasting change happens first through connection. The theories inform my work, the relationship is what makes it meaningful.
Relational
Unfiltered
Unfiltered
For my logo, I chose a compass pointing North because, therapy to me, is about finding our way back to ourselves. North is that internal reference point that represents our values, instincts, and sense of Self underneath all the noise, survival strategies, expectations, and roles we’ve had to carry. A compass doesn’t tell us where to go
For my logo, I chose a compass pointing North because, therapy to me, is about finding our way back to ourselves. North is that internal reference point that represents our values, instincts, and sense of Self underneath all the noise, survival strategies, expectations, and roles we’ve had to carry. A compass doesn’t tell us where to go or force a direction and it doesn’t decide our path for us, it just helps us reorient when things feel confusing, overwhelming, or disconnected. A compass helps us find our way back. That’s how I see therapy. Not about becoming someone else or fixing who we are, but about slowly finding our way back to what’s already there underneath it all. The parts of us that still knows our North, even when things feel loud, scary, or uncertain. When we start to reconnect with that internal reference point, things begin to shift. The urgency softens, and all of a sudden, we’re not just reacting anymore, we’re finding our way back to ourselves again.
Authentic
Unfiltered
Authentic
I’m not here for the polished, curated versions of people. I care about what’s happening when the mask slips, the reactions you don’t fully understand yet, the patterns you keep ending up in even when you swear you’ve done the work. I work with the parts of you that are exhausted from trying to keep everything together and still somehow f
I’m not here for the polished, curated versions of people. I care about what’s happening when the mask slips, the reactions you don’t fully understand yet, the patterns you keep ending up in even when you swear you’ve done the work. I work with the parts of you that are exhausted from trying to keep everything together and still somehow feeling like it’s not enough. I have a pointed interest in trauma and neurodiversity, especially how they shape the nervous system, relationships, identity, and the ways people learn to survive environments that didn’t always make sense or feel safe. I work with individuals and couples who are navigating relational trauma, addiction, burnout, emotional overload, and long standing patterns that don’t shift just because you’ve tried harder. I offer a space for what’s real and I'm here for the hard, honest, uncomfortable, actually-change-your-life kind of work. The kind that asks you to slow down, be seen, open those boxes, start unpacking, dust off the cobwebs and stay awhile.
Bring the mess, I'll bring the map
Sometimes trauma is obvious other times it hides in plain sight. Like anxiety that never fully switches off, a nervous system stuck in overdrive, or that feeling of bracing for something you can’t name. In my work, I’m always looking beneath the surface. I'm interested in how different brains and bodies learn to adapt, mask, over-function, shut down, or stay on alert just to get through life. I don’t read these experiences as dysfunction but as survival strategies that have served you well at some point. Together, we will get to know your parts: the protective parts that keep you going, the hyper aware parts that never get to rest, the strong parts that don’t know how to stop carrying everything, and the younger or more tender parts that are still trying to feel safe in the world. Nothing in you is random and it all matters here.
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