{"id":19,"date":"2024-03-01T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T16:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebookchair.ca\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:08:04","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thebookchair.ca\/pt\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"about us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Book Chair offers an honest, action-focused, and direct approach that supports clients in making meaningful change.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The Book Chair grew out of my own experience of trying to find a counsellor. I remember I was looking for honest feedback, and a sense that my counsellor was genuinely trying to work through my issues with me. Instead, I often felt my feelings were being validated, but that my thoughts or actions were not really being challenged enough for personal growth. That frustrating experience shaped how I work because it helped me to understand that support is not just about comfort, but about respecting a person\u2019s autonomy enough to believe they can stay in a difficult conversation when met with care and dignity.<\/div>
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To hold us through it, I ground my work collaboration and humour, including the dark kind when it fits.<\/div>
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I am a registered social worker, that holds a Master of Social Work Degree from the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Social Work from Dalhousie University, and I bring extensive professional experience working with harm, conflict, accountability, and othe realities people often struggle to talk about.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Collaborative <\/h3>

Collaboration is the practice of understanding something together. This means that my work relies on active participation, and that I believe that change happens through a shared process of reflection and action.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Conflict Forward<\/h3>

Conflict often means that something matters enough that people are still working to address it, and I am drawn to working with conflict in that space. Sometimes conflict ends in rupture, but we can focus our approach in a way that prioritizes clarity, understanding, and stronger relationships.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Liberation Psychology<\/h3>

Liberation Psychology rejects the idea that suffering can be understood only on the individual level. My work is grounded on the idea that distress happens in context, and that understanding a person means that I must also understand the conditions shaping their lives. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Transparency<\/h3>

I value honesty and transparency because people should not have to sit in a room trying to decode the person who is supposed to be helping them. So I try to make public what is relevant in my thinking, questions, and responses, so the process is not hidden behind clinical distance.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Relational<\/h3>

I work from the belief that people are shaped in relationship, harmed in relationship, and often healed in relationship too. Which means I am a full person when I come into the session, flawed and complex, and that humanity is also part of how the work happens.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Accountability & Repair<\/h3>

I work from the belief that people are more than the worst thing they have done, but not separate from it. While accountability is not a time machine, people can still take responsibility, work toward repair, and change in meaningful ways.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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