Healing that goes deeper than the surface
Relational, compassionate therapy for trauma, anxiety, and the patterns that keep you stuck.
Do you ever find yourself thinking…
“In order to be loved, I have to make myself into someone else.”
“I’ll keep myself small so that others don’t think I’m too much.”
“Wanting and expecting things leads to disappointment.”
“If I stay busy, I feel fine, but when things get quiet, I panic.”
“If I keep achieving, I’ll earn love and connection.”
“My needs and wants are a burden for others.”
If these resonate with you, you are not alone. They are survival strategies and learned responses to experiences where your needs, emotions, or sense of self did not feel safe, seen, or welcome.
Over time, these patterns can begin to feel like who you are. But they are not the whole story.
Therapy offers a space to understand where these patterns came from, and to begin building a different relationship with yourself. One where your needs matter. Where you belong without shrinking. Where you are worthy of love, not because you earned it, but simply because you are.
How We Work Together
Kendra draws on several evidence-informed modalities, woven together to meet you where you are.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is an evidence-based, non-pathologizing approach centered in compassion. Through gentle self-exploration, it helps you identify, understand, and show kindness toward every part of yourself, softening survival patterns that no longer serve you, and releasing burdens you have been carrying for a long time.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy brings the body into the conversation. Where many approaches work top-down, starting with thoughts and behaviours, this is bottom-up, tuning into how distress lives in the body first. This gives access to pain, trauma, and burdens that may not yet have words.
Relational Therapy
Relational therapy is grounded in the belief that healing happens within consistent, supportive, and attuned relationships. The therapeutic relationship itself becomes a space to notice, explore, and ultimately heal unhelpful relational patterns and attachment wounds.
Education & Training
Kendra brings a depth of specialized training to her practice, with a commitment to ongoing learning.
Master of Social Work — University of Victoria (2025)
Somatic Therapy for Complex Trauma Certification Training: Body-Based, Polyvagal & Neurobiological Techniques for Mind-Body Healing — Arielle Schwartz, PhD, Janina Fisher, PhD, and Abi Blakeslee, PhD (2026)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy Training — Stacy Ruse, LPC (2025)
IFS Therapy for Couples — Parts Work Approaches for Reconnection & Deeper Intimacy (2025)
Integrative Somatic Parts Work (Levels 1–3) — Fran Booth, LICSW (2024)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Skills Training (2022)
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training (2022)
ASIST Suicide First Aid (2021)
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology — MacEwan University (2017)
BCCSW Registered Social Worker (RSW) #17968
Pricing
Sessions are available in person or online, in 50 and 90 minute lengths.
Individual Therapy
Available in person or online
$160 — 50 Minute Session
$230 — 90 Minute Session
A free 20-minute consultation is available to help you decide if this is the right fit.
Common Questions
Do you offer a free consultation?
Yes. A free 20-minute consultation is available so you can get a sense of whether working together feels like the right fit. There is no pressure or obligation.
Do you offer in-person and online sessions?
Yes. Sessions are available both in person in Victoria, BC, and online, across BC, so you can choose what works best for you.
How long are sessions?
Sessions are available in 50-minute and 90-minute lengths. The right length depends on your needs and what you are working through.
Is therapy covered by insurance?
Many extended health benefit plans cover sessions with a Registered Social Worker. Kendra is a BCCSW Registered Social Worker (RSW #17968). It is worth checking with your provider to confirm your coverage.