Welcome to Sand and Stone Therapy
Therapy is not about being “fixed.” It is about being supported as you reconnect with your strengths, your voice, and your capacity for growth. My role is to walk alongside you, offering clinical expertise, attunement, and evidence-based tools, while respecting your pace, your goals, and your lived experience.
The Practice
My practice is grounded in the belief that healing happens within safe, authentic, and collaborative therapeutic relationships. I offer a compassionate, client-centred space, where individuals can explore their thoughts, emotions and experiences, understand the impact of trauma, and work toward meaningful, self-directed change.
Anxiety and depression are increasingly common in today’s world and often coexist with coping strategies such as avoidance, isolation, or addictive behaviours. Trauma, whether acute or cumulative, can underlie many emotional and relational difficulties. Therapy provides a safe, supportive environment to explore these experiences, understand their origins, and work toward lasting change.
“The person you are destined to become is the person YOU decide to be.
Every experience in your life and every person you meet, provides valuable lessons that contribute to your story, and your journey through life.”
Jane Conrad
Types of Therapy Offered
My therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, collaborative, and solution-focused. Treatment is tailored to each client’s unique needs and goals, drawing from appropriate evidence-based modalities. You do not need to have experienced trauma, addiction, or emotional dysregulation to seek therapy. Everyone deserves a safe, supportive space to be seen and heard, and anyone can benefit from therapy.
Healing from Trauma
Healing from trauma involves understanding how all of our past experiences shape emotional well-being, relationships, and the nervous system. This therapy fosters emotional regulation, resilience, and a renewed sense of safety and empowerment.
Addiction Therapy
In a supportive, non-judgemental space, clients can explore substance use, addictive behaviours and the factors that contribute to them. Through collaboration, therapy supports self-awareness, emotion regulation and resilience for meaningful change.
Solution Focused Therapy
Solution-focused therapy helps clients identify goals, leverage strengths, and develop practical strategies for meaningful change. It’s collaborative, empowering, and designed to build confidence, resilience, and real-world problem-solving skills.
An Integrated Approach including...
Psychotherapy uses evidence based modalities that are each specifically designed to address clinical needs or circumstance. While the therapeutic connection is most powerful aspect of therapy, modalities assist in facilitating change through structure and practice.
CBT
Cognitive Behvaviour Therapy helps clients identify unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours, and develop practical strategies to respond differently. It supports problem-solving, emotional regulation, and lasting positive change.
DBT
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy focuses on building skills in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and healthy communication. It helps clients navigate intense emotions and improve relationships.
EMDR for Trauma
Eye Movement Desesitization and Reprocessing helps clients process and integrate distressing memories or experiences, resulting in a reduction of their emotional impact. It supports healing from trauma and promotes a greater sense of safety and resilience.
IFS - Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems explores the different “parts” of ourselves and their roles in our thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. IFS Therapy helps clients understand, integrate, and harmonize these parts to foster self-compassion and balance.
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Privacy & Confidentiality
Protecting your privacy and confidentiality is a fundamental part of my practice. I am a member of the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), the regulatory body governing the professional practice of psychotherapy in Ontario, and I adhere to all ethical and legal standards related to confidentiality and professional conduct.
My practice is compliant with the Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). Client records and communications are managed through the Jane platform, a secure, encrypted practice management system designed specifically for healthcare providers. Additional safeguards, including secure data storage and enhanced protection through Sync, are used to help ensure your personal information remains confidential and protected.
Confidentiality is maintained at all times, except in rare circumstances where disclosure is required by law or necessary to ensure safety. These limits to confidentiality are discussed clearly at the outset of therapy.
I also engage in regular clinical supervision as part of my professional responsibility. Supervision supports ethical practice, ongoing learning, and high-quality care. Client information shared in supervision is done respectfully and without identifying details whenever possible, ensuring privacy while supporting the best therapeutic outcomes.
About Me
As a lifelong learner, I am committed to ongoing professional development and regularly participate in advanced training to broaden my scope of practice and enhance the quality of care I provide. I consider it a privilege to support clients through their healing journeys and approach my work with humility, integrity, and respect.
Outside of my role as a therapist, I value balance and connection. I cherish time with my family, enjoy travel and adventure, and believe in living fully and intentionally, values that naturally inform my therapeutic presence.
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Contact us
Feel free to reach out for inquiries or to book an appointment through the form below.
If you are curious about working with Sand and Stone Therapy, I offer a complimentary 15-minute consultation to help determine the therapeutic fit.
Choosing the right therapist is an important part of the therapeutic process. I encourage clients to advocate for their needs and take the time to find a therapeutic relationship that feels safe, supportive, and aligned.
Therapy is personal, powerful, and potentially life-changing, and it begins with therapeutic alliance.
About us
Sand and Stone Therapy is a leading psychotherapy practice in Newmarket, Ontario, offering a range of therapeutic services to support individuals navigate their mental health journey. Sand and Stone Therapy is committed to providing compassionate and effective therapy to assist clients overcome their challenges and achieve personal growth.