About Me.

🧠 From Philosophy to Psychotherapy: A Journey Back to Being Human

For over a decade, I was immersed in academic philosophy at the University of Toronto and McMaster University. I trained rigorously in logic, critical thinking, and the search for truth, but somewhere along the way, I felt something essential go missing. Much of contemporary philosophy felt dry and distant, stripped of the emotion and humanity that made figures like Socrates so compelling in the first place. I longed to feel them not just as thinkers, but as people— flawed, passionate, alive. That longing planted the seed for a different kind of work.

At the time, I had already been working in a high school setting for over ten years. I found myself drawn again and again to the emotional worlds of teenagers and young adults— their questions, their pain, their spark. I realized how alive I felt when helping someone in real time, face-to-face, heart-to-heart. That’s when I decided to step into psychotherapy, confident that my background in logic and belief systems could serve a deeper purpose: helping real people untangle the thoughts and narratives that kept them suffering.

After walking alongside nearly 400 clients, I can say with clarity and pride that my intuition was right. People are not just minds— they are bodies, hearts, spirits. To truly help someone, we must meet them as full human beings, capable of reason and emotion, vulnerability and insight. And in doing so, I get to feel more human too. Every session is a reminder that healing isn't just about fixing what's broken— it's about honoring what’s still beautifully whole.