Everyone is intertwined with their unique individual and social contexts and is doing the best they currently can. Counselling, then, cannot be a one-size-fits-all undertaking but rather must be a flexible and dynamic process that requires different tools to approach each challenge. Ryan’s expanding toolkit draws from his own diverse personal and professional history, as well as narrative therapy, client-centered therapy, mindfulness and self-compassion practices, EMDR, and CBT.

We can only work within what we know and, as we apply new tools to expand our ways of knowing, we actively change our worlds. By engaging genuinely and compassionately, we create conditions that allow for growth that otherwise would not occur. Through past challenges Ryan has learned the value of having a safe space to explore new ways of understanding, and strives to help create that space for clients.

Ryan spent 15 years in engineering, and has also worked in sawmills, renovations contracting, mechanics, solar power, and park development. Ryan taught martial arts and self-defence, and has travelled to 30 different countries. Ryan is constantly working to evolve and has lived the challenges of marriage, divorce, family mental health and substance use, and is a half-time single parent of two young children.