Amanda Herron.

I also believe that insight alone isn’t always enough to create change. We can name a pattern, analyse it, and understand where it comes from—and still feel stuck. When we’ve been overwhelmed or hurt, it’s natural to retreat into our minds for safety. However, healing doesn’t always happen through thinking alone – often, we have to feel our way out. That’s why I support people in going beyond talking about their experiences and into processing and working through them. By practising being with our feelings as they arise—through presence, embodiment, and compassion—we access deeper layers of awareness where real transformation happens. I believe this kind of integration allows us to not only understand ourselves more fully, but live with more ease—rooted, connected, and free.

To support this kind of deep, embodied healing, I use an integrative approach and draw from Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, somatics, and intersectional feminism. These ways of working help us get to know the parts of you that need attention and acknowledge all the creative ways you have coped with struggle. They enable an exploration of how your identities and lived experiences influence the way you relate to yourself and others. Together, we’ll gently make space for what’s showing up in the present moment, including what your body might be holding, so that the shifts you want to see can happen not just in your mind, but throughout your whole system.

When I work with couples, I also draw on Relational Life Therapy. This direct and practical approach supports partners in shifting out of stuck patterns and moving toward greater closeness, accountability, and care.

I’ve always been drawn to the quieter layers beneath what we show to the world – to the places where grief, resistance, and tenderness live. My healing has meant recognising the echoes of old wounds in the present – and coming home to myself, again and again, through guidance, practice, and getting in touch with the quiet wisdom of my body. It was through this process that I came to understand healing as something lived and felt, not just understood – and it deeply informs the way I practice.

Some other things you might want to know about me are that prior to practicing therapy, I spent six years supporting women, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer survivors of sexual violence at a local rape crisis centre committed to justice-doing and anti-oppressive practice. I am a white, cis-gendered, queer, able-bodied, third-generation settler living on the stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. I approach all my work with thoughtfulness regarding social and cultural contexts, paying close attention to how access to power and privilege shapes relationships.

I love to read, write, dance, and lose track of time in meaningful conversation. I care deeplyabout relationships where we can show up as we are and the messiness and beauty of what it means to be alive.