Strategy Intensives
90-Minute Deep Dives for When You Need a Plan, Not Just Support
What is a Strategy Intensive?
A Strategy Intensive is a single 90-minute session designed to help you move from overwhelmed to having a clear next step.
This is not ongoing therapy. This is focused, practical strategy work. We identify what is breaking down, understand what is happening in your nervous system, and build a concrete starting plan.
I bring both a clinical lens as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and a practical, body-based lens with my clinical background in Occupational Therapy (OT). We will talk about what is happening in your body and brain, and build tools you can use right away.
Some people need just one session to get unstuck. Others benefit from follow-up support as they implement their plan. Either way, you will leave with clarity and direction.
Which support do you need?
Postpartum Safe Landing | ADHD Executive Ease | Parenting Capacity Reset
Strategy Intensives
90-minute session designed to move you from overwhelmed to operational.
Postpartum Safe Landing
Vancouver Postpartum Support for Sleep, Boundaries & Nervous System Regulation
This is for you if:
You are pregnant and want to prepare for postpartum in a realistic, nervous-system-informed way.
You are in the first year postpartum and need a concrete plan for the area that feels hardest right now.
You want personalized support, not generic postpartum advice.
What we will build together in 90 minutes
We start by identifying where you are struggling most or where you anticipate the biggest challenges. Then we pick one area to focus on and build a concrete plan.
You might choose:
Sleep and rest strategies that work with your baby's actual patterns and your capacity
Boundary-setting for visitors and support - identifying what you actually need (meal prep, laundry, someone to hold the baby while you nap) and how to ask for it
Nervous system regulation tools for the moments when you feel overwhelmed, touched out, or dysregulated
Navigating new relationship dynamics with your partner - communication patterns, division of labor, intimacy shifts, resentment that is building
We focus on one area in depth, not all four. This gives you a solid starting plan you can actually implement.
Many parents book follow-up sessions to address additional areas like partner dynamics, identity shifts, returning to work transitions, or rebuilding capacity as their baby grows.
What is actually happening
Postpartum is not just about learning to care for a baby. It is a complete identity shift, a physical recovery, and a nervous system recalibration all happening at once.
Your body is healing. Your hormones are adjusting. Your sleep is fragmented. Your brain is reorganizing itself to attune to another human being. And your nervous system is scanning constantly: Is my baby safe? Am I safe? Can I rest?
When the answer feels like no, your system stays activated. This shows up as hypervigilance, difficulty sleeping even when the baby sleeps, decision fatigue, or that flatness where nothing feels quite right.
And often, the support people offer is not the support you actually need. Everyone wants to hold the baby. No one offers to meal prep or take out the trash.
You thought you would feel more prepared than this.
You read the books. You took the classes. And yet here you are, weeks or months in, wondering why no one told you it would feel this hard to just get through a day.
The baby sleeps in short bursts. You cannot remember the last time you showered. Visitors keep asking to hold the baby when what you actually need is someone to do the dishes. Your body does not feel like yours. Your mind races at 3am. And underneath it all is this quiet worry that you are already failing.
You are not failing. Your nervous system is doing exactly what it was designed to do in a season of massive change, sleep deprivation, and identity transition.
ADHD Executive Ease
Neurodivergent-Affirming Executive Function Support in Vancouver
This is for you if:
You have ADHD (diagnosed or self-identified) and you are tired of productivity systems that do not work for you.
You want practical, brain-based tools, not generic advice to try harder.
You are ready to stop fighting your brain and start working with it.
You have tried all the productivity systems, and none of them stick.
The color-coded calendar. The habit tracker. The app that promises to change your life. The morning routine that worked for exactly three days.
You know what you need to do. You can see the steps clearly. But when it comes time to actually do the thing, your brain goes blank. Or you get stuck. Or you realize you have been scrolling for 20 minutes.
And then comes the shame. The voice that says you are lazy, or undisciplined, or just not trying hard enough.
Here is what I know after years of working with ADHD adults: You are not broken. You just need systems built for how your brain actually works.
What is actually happening
ADHD brains are wired differently. Executive function tasks like initiating, organizing, prioritizing, and sustaining attention require more cognitive effort for you than for neurotypical brains.
The systems that work for other people often rely on skills that are inherently harder for ADHD brains. They assume you can just decide to focus, or remember to check your planner, or break tasks into steps without getting overwhelmed.
When these systems fail, it is not because you did something wrong. It is because the system was never designed for your brain.
What you need are systems that reduce cognitive load, work with your dopamine-seeking brain, account for time blindness, and do not rely on remembering to remember.
What we will build together in 90 minutes
We start by identifying where executive function is breaking down most for you right now. Then we pick one area to focus on and build brain-friendly systems you will actually use.
You might choose:
Task initiation and follow-through - reducing the friction that keeps you stuck in analysis paralysis or procrastination
Time management and planning - working with time blindness instead of fighting it
Decision fatigue and daily routines - building systems that reduce the number of decisions you have to make
Emotional regulation when things feel hard - tools for when frustration, shame, or overwhelm shut you down
We focus on one area in depth, not all four. This gives you 3 to 5 concrete strategies tailored to your brain that you can start using immediately.
Many ADHD adults book follow-up sessions to address additional executive function challenges like managing household systems, navigating work demands, relationship communication patterns, or building sustainable self-care routines that do not rely on motivation
Parenting Capacity Reset
Vancouver Support for Parental Burnout & Nervous System Regulation
This is for you if:
You are a parent feeling depleted, overwhelmed, or like you are constantly running on empty.
You want practical tools, not just reassurance that this phase will pass.
You are ready to prioritize your own regulation so you can show up differently for your kids.
You love your kids, and you are also completely depleted.
You wake up already tired. You move through the day in survival mode. By bedtime, you have nothing left. And then you scroll because it is the only time that feels like yours, even though you know you should just sleep.
You snap at your kids over small things. You feel guilty, and then you snap again the next day. You know you need boundaries, but you are too exhausted to figure out what they should be or how to hold them.
This is not a sign you are doing something wrong. This is what parenting burnout looks like, and it means your nervous system needs support
What is actually happening
Parenting is one of the most dysregulating experiences a nervous system can go through. You are constantly responding to another person's needs, often before your own. You are managing big emotions while trying to keep everyone fed, safe, and on time.
When your nervous system is chronically activated, your capacity shrinks. Things that used to feel manageable now feel impossible. You have less patience, less flexibility, less access to the calm, connected parent you want to be.
This is not a parenting problem. This is a nervous system problem. And the solution is not to try harder. The solution is to rebuild your capacity.
What we will build together in 90 minutes
We start by identifying where your capacity is stretched thinnest right now. Then we pick one area to focus on and build concrete tools you can use immediately.
You might choose:
In-the-moment regulation strategies - tools to help you come down faster when you feel yourself escalating with your kids
Boundaries that protect your capacity - identifying what you can realistically hold and how to communicate limits without guilt
Reducing the mental load - systems to decrease decision fatigue and the invisible labor of managing a household
Navigating partnership dynamics - addressing resentment, unequal division of labor, or communication breakdowns with your co-parent
We focus on one area in depth, not all four. This gives you a solid starting plan for rebuilding capacity in the area that feels most urgent.
Many parents book follow-up sessions to address additional areas like managing big emotions in their kids, breaking patterns of yelling or reactivity, addressing their own childhood wounds that surface in parenting, or creating sustainable routines that reduce daily overwhelm.
