Isabella Lopez-Smith

I offer counselling as a space of reflection, dialogue, and presence. My training is integrative, shaped by somatic, existential, and relational psychoanalytic traditions. This allows me to work responsively rather than applying a fixed method: each therapeutic relationship is different and my practice is tailored as such. 

Many of the people I work with are from neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ communities. I also have experience supporting those who have faced interpersonal abuse, discrimination, or systemic barriers related to race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, and any systemic barriers connected to someone’s background, relationships, or circumstances. In therapy, these layers of context and history matter alongside the immediacy of our encounter. 

people adapt to experiences that may feel overwhelming or unbearable, and the cost of those adaptations over time. Therapy is not about forcing change, but about creating the conditions in which new forms of experiencing, relating, and imagining may gradually become possible.