Hi, I’m Riley. My passion for supporting adults, parents, and parents-to-be is rooted in both my personal experiences and professional training. Through my own therapy journey and my experience as a mother, I understand how life can bring us face-to-face with old wounds, unexpected challenges, and parts of ourselves we thought we'd already worked through. I know what it's like to feel stuck in patterns that no longer serve you, to notice your struggles showing up in your relationships or parenting, and to long for a different way of being.
Where understanding meets expertise.
Riley’s Personal Journey of Care
I believe that healing happens in the context of a safe and trusting relationship, where you don't have to have it all figured out and can show up exactly as you are. Through Verity Counselling, I offer specialized psychotherapy services that go beyond simply understanding why you struggle, helping you create meaningful, lasting change that is reflected in your relationships, your parenting, and your everyday life.
I bring a genuine sense of understanding, warmth, and humanity to my work.
Together, we create room to slow down, make sense of what you're experiencing, and gently explore the patterns, wounds, and protective strategies that have shaped your life. Over time, many clients find themselves responding rather than reacting, feeling more connected to themselves and their relationships, and experiencing a greater sense of confidence, calm, and freedom in how they move through the world and show up for the people they love.
Therapy with me is a space where you don't have to have it all figured out.
Many of the people I work with have already done a lot of thinking, reading, reflecting, and trying to understand themselves. They know their history matters, recognize their patterns, and deeply want to feel differently day to day and show up differently in their relationships and parenting—but still find themselves feeling stuck.
In our work together, we move beyond understanding into change that is felt.
From Motherhood to Meaningful Care
What is different about working with Riley?
Through a trauma-informed, attachment-based, and somatic lens, we gently explore what sits underneath your patterns while also building practical, in-the-moment tools you can use when life feels overwhelming.
- Birth and reproductive trauma (including high risk pregnancies and medical trauma)
- Pregnancy grief and loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death, etc.)
- Birth and postpartum preparation
- Anxiety and mood concerns during pregnancy
- Infertility concerns
- Feeling like you’ve lost yourself after having children
- Identity shifts associated with becoming a mother
- Postpartum challenges (mood changes, rage anger/rage, anxiety, intrusive thoughts, etc.)
- Couple concerns associated with parenting
- Childhood trauma affecting parenting
- Parent coaching for behavioural and emotional regulation concerns
- Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder
- Dissociation
What I Specialize In:
Internal Family Systems - Level 1
AEDP - Level 1 and 2
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Externship
Canadian Certified Reproductive and Birth Trauma Therapist (CC-BRT)
Advanced Training in a variety of trauma and somatic based modalities including Attachment Focused EMDR, OEI - levels 1 and 2, Lifespan Integration - level 1
Certified EMDR Therapist
Canadian Certified - Perinatal Grief and Loss Certificate (CC-PGL)
Registered Psychotherapist and Supervisor, The College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO)
Certifications and Professional Training
Making memories with loved ones
Experimenting with new recipes
Lacing up for my next run
Spending time with my two little boys
Outside of the therapy office, I love...
Whether I’m chasing toddlers, training for a race, or gathering around a table with loved ones, I value the relationships and experiences that bring joy, connection, and meaning to everyday life.
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