Kimberly is a member of the Ontario Association of Counsellors, Consultants, Psychotherapists, and Psychometrists (OACCPP). She is a Toronto psychotherapist working with adults, couples, and adolescents in counselling and psychotherapy.
Kimberly's training in psychotherapy began with a Master's Degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. Here, she completed her practical internship at Toronto's own Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Queen Street Site. Kimberly is currently achieving her Doctoral Degree of Psychology (DPsych) and is clinically supervised by Dr. Dan Dalton, Psychologist.
Kimberly is a coach and motivational speaker for youth entrepreneurs in Toronto in the Ontario Governement's Youth Entrepreneurship programs Summer Company, BizBoot, and BizStart, as she was a past graduate of Ontario's Youth "Summer Company" program at the age of 25.
Kimberly has made many appearances on national television including regular appearances on Cosmopolitan TV's Oh So Cosmo with Josie Dye.
Kimberly is a regular contributor to media outlets including Cosmo TV's Oh So Cosmo, City TV News Toronto, Global Toronto News, CBC's The Steven and Chris Show, TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Gail Vaz-Oxlade's new show, Princess, has been featured in the Globe and Mail, FASHION Magazine, FLARE Magazine and TV Guide Magazine. She regularly speaks at conferences, high schools, and film festivals, and she is the national spokesperson for Psoriasis Support Canada and their campaign for Psoriasis Awareness Month.
Her practical work has extended throughout her entire graduate career, and has encompassed work with stress management, young women, career counsellng, anxiety, depression, mental health, couples counselling, and autism. In 2008, she founded Toronto Music Psychotherapy, a private practice specializing in the assessment and treatment of children with autism.
Her graduate research was awarded scholarships by both OGS and SSHRC. Kimberly's interest in music and the brain led to her desire to study the relationship between music and the psychotherapeutic process while working with adolescents in an Ontario high school. Her own experiences as a professional musician contributed to her desire to study music and its interaction with emotion. She is an editor for the Canadian Journal of Music Therapy (CJMT)
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