Angela is a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Nurse with more than 25 years of experience supporting people through health challenges, change, loss and difficult life experiences. She is the owner of The Rooted Heart Psychotherapy and Counselling in North Bay, providing in-person and virtual psychotherapy across Ontario.
Angela has a particular interest in working with nurses and healthcare professionals, first responders, and people experiencing grief, loss and significant life transitions. Her approach is trauma-informed, grief-informed, culturally sensitive and context/person-centred, drawing from evidence-informed psychotherapy while also incorporating mindfulness, somatic awareness and whole-person approaches to care.
She is a Master Accelerated Resolution Therapist (ART), Certified Somatic EMDR Therapist, EMDR practitioner and Certified Grief Educator. She is also a trained meditation coach and Reiki Master, experiences that further inform her understanding of mindfulness, embodiment and the connection between emotional and physical wellbeing.
Alongside individual psychotherapy, Angela facilitates a virtual psychotherapy support group for nurses and Grounding Grief, a facilitated grief and embodiment group centred on connection, reflection and shared experience.

My Approach to Therapy
My approach is trauma-informed, grief-informed, culturally responsive and person-centred. Rather than beginning with “What is wrong with you?” I believe it is often more helpful to become curious about “What has happened?” and how those experiences may continue to influence the present.
Together, we can explore how your past may be present in your thoughts, emotions, relationships, body and patterns of responding. Therapy may involve developing greater safety and stabilization, understanding your nervous system, processing difficult experiences and memories, making space for grief, and strengthening connection, self-compassion and choice.
I integrate evidence-informed approaches including Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Somatic EMDR, EMDR, DBT, ACT/CBT, parts-informed therapy, attachment work and polyvagal-informed approaches. Therapy is individualized to your experience, your needs and what you are ready for. My intention is to create space to understand what you carry, process what needs attention, and support you in moving forward with greater connection, capacity and choice.