I didn’t become a therapist because I had all the answers. I became one because I know what it’s like to sit with the big questions about identity, belonging, and how to love and be loved. For a long time, I was the person people came to when they needed to talk something through, and what I loved most was being with people in those quiet, tender moments when something real opens up. That’s still the heart of how I work. Whether you come in on your own or with a partner, I’ll meet you with curiosity and without judgment. Whatever you’re carrying, there are good reasons it’s showing up the way it is, and we get to understand it together at your pace.

With individuals, I support people moving through anxiety, workplace stressors, life transitions, identity, and the kind of stuck-ness that’s hard to name. I integrate an attachment-based lens, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into our work. With couples and relationships, I help partners step out of the same painful loop and find their way back toward each other. I also work from an attachment-based lens, drawing on the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). I also bring an explicitly queer-affirming, anti-oppressive stance, and LGBTQ+ folks and people in ethically non-monogamous and other non-traditional relationships are at the centre of my practice. You won’t have to explain or justify the shape of your life or your relationships before we can get to the real work.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent over 15 years in leadership development and workplace culture, which gave me a close, practical understanding of workplace dynamics, burnout, and the interpersonal stress that comes with relationships at work (with managers, peers, team members). If part of what’s weighing on you lives at your job, you won’t have to translate it for me.

My work is about making space for what’s real, the messy and the meaningful and the in-between, and asking together what’s ready to shift. So, here you are, and here we are. This is where we start.

phil offers sessions in English & French

Cultural Identities/Lived Experience: Queer Lived Experience (Cis Gay Man)