Thank you for pausing here to learn a bit more about me. I have been moved by the way human longing works in each of us for as long as I can remember. This curiosity was well held in the natural surroundings of my very rural and wild upbringing in and around B.C.’s northern west coast. My parents were back-to-the-landers from the U.S. in the early ’70s. Growing up in such a wild and remote place convinced me that our own health and the health of the natural world—of which we are an integral part—are inseparable.

After graduating from high school, I headed for Toronto and trained to be an actor. I was drawn to acting by human stories—the possibility of stepping into someone else’s shoes and living what was important to them.

Over time, it was the relationship we have with our own inner landscape, and with each other, that became most compelling to me. I sought to understand more, and I’m still at it. It has been a rich, multifaceted exploration so far, including meditation, yoga, transpersonal psychology, emotionally focused couples work, parts work, AEDP training, nature therapy, ancestral healing practices, and more.

Along the way, I have encountered—and continue to work with—my own multilayered patterns. These patterns formed around challenges such as the divorce of my parents while my brother and I were young, many moves from one home and school to another, and questions and explorations around gender, identity, and belonging, to name a few.

I returned to school in my 30s to train as a therapist at Clearmind International, a program on the leading edge of systems and transpersonal psychology. After graduating, I continued to study a number of trauma-informed modalities that emphasize embodied and relational approaches to therapy.

I have volunteered and trained with organizations such as Human Nature Counselling and Thriving Roots. Both organizations emphasize a healthy connection to the natural world in which we are embedded as essential to mental and emotional health.

I am also mother to a wonderful, wild child of my own—a partner, a wife, and a soul sister to a few near and dear ones.

I look forward to meeting you and hearing what it is you are wanting most from our time together. It is an honour to be considered as someone you might trust in that process. I will bring all I have to offer in support.