Areas of Expertise

Lynda works with individuals and couples who want support with:

• Communication and expressing needs clearly
• Building emotional and intimate connection
• Dating and creating healthier relationship patterns
• Sexual confidence and communicating about intimacy
• Mismatched desire
• Difficulty initiating or receiving affection and intimacy
• Boundaries, consent and authentic self-expression
• Fear of rejection or difficulty asking for what you want
• Emotional disconnection or loneliness within a relationship
• Recurring conflict and communication breakdowns
• Loss of affection, touch or intimacy
• Changes in intimacy following menopause, health changes or sexual-function concerns
• Rebuilding trust and closeness
• Creating more conscious, satisfying relationships
  
  

Her Approach

Lynda believes many challenges in relationships and intimacy are not simply signs that something is wrong. Often, people have never been taught the communication, relational and intimacy skills needed to navigate these areas with confidence.

Her sessions are warm, practical and highly experiential. Clients do more than simply talk about what is happening. They learn and practise new ways of communicating, understanding their needs, expressing boundaries, building emotional safety and creating deeper connection.

For partnered clients, this may mean finding their way back to affection, intimacy and closeness.

For individual clients, it may mean understanding relationship patterns, becoming more confident expressing needs and desires, developing healthier boundaries, navigating dating or becoming better prepared to create the kind of relationship they genuinely want.

The goal is greater clarity, confidence, connection and choice in how clients experience relationships and intimacy.

Training & Professional Background

Lynda brings more than 25 years of experience in teaching, coaching, facilitation and entrepreneurship to her work.

Her training includes:

• B.A. and B.Education
• Trained by the Gottman Institute in Couples Therapy, Level 2
• Certified Neuro-Transformational Coach
• Training in Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
• Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples, grounded in attachment theory
• Neurolinguistic Programming Master (NLP)
• Tantra Counselling and embodied intimacy practices
• More than 15 years of study and facilitation in Tantra, conscious connection and authentic relating
  
  

Lynda works with individuals and couples in Calgary, Edmonton and online. She also facilitates experiential workshops and relationship-education programs.