My path to this work wasn't straightforward. Before I became a psychotherapist, I spent years in a high-pressure corporate environment. I was capable, driven, and by most measures successful. And I was also quietly falling apart. Burnout eventually forced a reckoning that I couldn't think my way out of. That experience cracked something open, and it pointed me toward a completely different way of understanding what people actually need in order to change.

That shift led me first to a career in massage therapy, where I worked one-on-one with clients for several years. What I learned there stayed with me: that so much of what people carry lives below words, and that safety, consistency, and embodied presence can create change that talking alone often can't reach. When a wrist injury ended that chapter, I returned to university to train as a psychotherapist. Not to leave the body behind, but to bring everything I'd learned into a deeper, more integrated kind of work.

I care deeply about creating spaces where people don't have to shrink themselves to be accepted, where complexity is welcomed rather than managed, and where real honesty is possible. I bring a lot of training to this work, but underneath all of it is a simple conviction: that people are far more capable of their own healing than they've been led to believe, and that the right conditions can make all the difference. My own relationship to therapy is ongoing, personal, and rooted in genuine respect for how hard this kind of change actually is.

Alba Marussi, MA, RP

Registered Psychotherapist

How I became a therapist