Life Transition Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that supports individuals as they navigate and adapt to significant changes in their lives. These transitions may be planned or unexpected, including starting a new career, getting married, becoming a parent, going through a divorce, experiencing loss or grief, retiring, or adjusting to a new culture or environment.

Drawing on evidence-based approaches—such as psychodynamic, emotion-focused, and solution-focused modalities—Life Transition Therapy helps individuals gain clarity, process complex emotions, and build resilience during pivotal life moments.

Major life changes are often accompanied by a wide range of emotions, including stress, anxiety, sadness, uncertainty, or a sense of loss. In these times, working with a trained psychotherapist can provide a supportive space to explore your feelings, deepen self-understanding, and develop effective strategies to move forward.

The therapeutic process is collaborative and grounded in a respectful, empathetic relationship. Your psychotherapist will help you identify your strengths, clarify your values and goals, and develop the coping tools necessary to manage the emotional and practical challenges of transition.

Life Transition Therapy may include a variety of techniques tailored to your needs, such as talk therapy, mindfulness practices, cognitive-behavioral strategies, relaxation exercises, and self-care planning. Support may also involve decision-making guidance, problem-solving, and fostering a network of social and emotional resources.

Ultimately, Life Transition Therapy is designed to empower you to meet change with clarity and confidence—helping you adapt, grow, and discover meaning within life’s evolving circumstances.

I help you create a vision of the future that you want, then support you as you pursue it.

If you’re a teacher, and you feel like you’re destined to do something more. At first, you may feel uncomfortable being where you are — your career feels like a jacket that no longer fits. The style is wrong, it’s uncomfortable, and you need to change.

You feel like you want something more. You want to make a more meaningful contribution to your life. Some elements are clear, while other aspects feel vague and uncertain. 

That’s when we start to create our new reality. We work to build a vision of this reality, just like an architect will design renderings of a new home. We co-design this concept and idea of what you want your life to become.

If this teacher is engaged and she and her partner, who both grew up in Toronto, want to move to Vancouver.

We put Vancouver on the map and look at the attributes of this life you envision. 

• Why Vancouver? 
• What’s the change she is seeking from that place? 
• We’ll start to think about her career — does she still want to practice law, or perhaps she’d like to move into advocacy? 
• Or would she like to get involved with the cannabis industry that’s taken root in Vancouver?

We discuss, formulate, and experiment with ideas by moving forward on multiple paths to decide what works and doesn’t. Your transition is an iterative process. I partner with you and coach you through it.

I’ve seen dreams that “feel so crazy that they might just work” come into focus and become a reality. I know how to work with you to support you in moving toward a future that surprises and delights you.

There are many terms for this coaching approach— transition coach, personal development coach, action coach, personal coach, life mentor, and life coach.