My approach to teaching about trauma-informed practice and healing is thoughtful and paced for safety. We integrate then we grow. We build emotional capacity then we stretch.

Learning about a subject as immense as trauma invariably brings up our own pain and shadow and, when that happens, we want a compassionate, capable and connected guide by our side. That’s me. I listen for tone and what you don't say as much as what you do. I offer tools, resources and ongoing support to help you deepen your learning and your healing.

I support the overworked and under-resourced health and wellness practitioner and the businesses they own, run or work for. The folks who support everyone else, whether it’s their job or not. I help them build their capacity for healing so they feel rested, resourced and paid. Read some of their testimonials.

• Life coaches

• Financial coaches

• Dating, relationship, love and sex coaches

• Tarot readers and intuitives

• Skincare specialists

• Personal trainers

• Founders, entrepreneurs, business owners

• RMTs

• Physiotherapists

• Chiropractors

• Breathwork facilitators

• Reiki healers

• Bodyworkers

Offering trauma-informed education and care is one approach in the eco-system of trauma education and trauma-informed practice available today.

I’m passionate about helping my colleagues in the coaching, healing, and wellness world become really good at their work by being trauma-informed. My training and experience allow me to offer an understanding of what trauma is, its iterations and impacts, the ScienceLITE of the nervous system and brain function. I teach them how to create trust and safety through language and consent, how and when to slow down and harm reduction and repair techniques.

I’m proud to be part of a web of trauma-informed clinicians, therapists, somatic practitioners and bodyworkers who I can refer out to when required.

I’m trained as an ICT coach, Trauma of Money Certified, Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology and Reiki healer. I participate in ongoing learning, mentorship and supervision with trauma recovery expert Steven Henne, Ph.D., R.C.C., C.G.P., Registered Clinical Counsellor, Certified Group Psychotherapist.

My business is a reflection of me, my internal world, and the journey I’ve taken to get here.

Grace (read: room for mistakes, nuance, growth and acceptance), Anti-Oppression, Curiosity, Community, Discernment, Trustworthiness, Clarity, Resourced, Generosity.

I believe in reimagining capitalism, repairing the damage colonization continues to inflict and rejecting white supremacy. When my privilege intersects with another’s marginalization, it is my job to lift them up and stand with them. Feminism’s most basic tenant is equality for all genders and I am a feminist. I believe in equal pay and questioning the patriarchy and its systems. I believe that climate change would be solved by resourcing Indigenous people, systems, science and traditions. I stand with LGBTQ2S folks and raise my voice to call for equity, safety and protection of their bodies and their rights.

While my intention is to be actively anti-racist and anti-oppression, I will mess up, and when I do I will do my best to repair.

Learning about my heritage and ancestral lineage is a meaningful process in understanding the trauma I hold, both inherited and lived, and a critical part of my decolonizing journey.

I was born in what is now known as Vancouver, Canada to parents who grew up in the Prairie provinces on Treaty 1 and Treaty 4 land. I come from a long line of settlers of European descent on my mother’s maternal side and immigrants from Azerbaijan and Armenia on her paternal side. My father’s mother was born in Canada to Canadian settlers of European descent. My father’s father was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada when he was 13 years old.

I currently reside on the traditional territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen First Nations and on the broader territory of the Coast Salish People.