About
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At twelve years old I found mindfulness through a school teacher and it changed my life. Fast forward to high-school when I did a cultural exchange to Mexico and lived with a Buddhist family that loved nature. This is where I really experienced what it was to involve nature into my spiritual practice and health challenges. I remember one day being taken to the ocean instead of school to alleviate my debilitating pain and miraculously it helped.
I continued to travel on and off for the next 15 years when I could, while gently over time earning a degree in Fine Arts, Psychology and Education. For about a decade I worked as a teacher but soon realised that type of corporate and stressful (asking way too much of our teachers) environment wasn't beneficial to anyone's health. When I lived in the Middle East my work with women and equality encouraged me to direct and produce the Vagina Monologues with a very at need and marginalized female population. To honour my learning and what I knew was missing I enrolled and graduated the Spiritual Psychotherapy program at The Transformational Arts College in Toronto, I completed a Transformational coaching program & wrote and published a book called "My Year off Men." A few years years ago I finished my almost year long internship in Intuitive Herbalism (plant spirit medicine) and am an advocate for the medical and spiritual use of cannabis and all it entails. I have trained and practiced in psychedelic integration psychotherapy. *Disclaimer: I am here to support you at any time in your psychedelic harm reduction plan and integration needs with psychotherapy. Currently in Canada psychedelics are illegal. I can not promote/source or encourage illegal activities. If you do decide to engage in illegal activities please be careful: get your drugs tested, ask for help or guidance and stay safe. There has been noted physical abuse in psychedelic and even spiritual psychedelic settings. |
Relevant Qualifications & Associations
- Beauty Redifined course by Lexie and Lindsay Kite writers of More Thank a Body: Completed 2022
- IFSCA 16 week Stepping Stone Course: Internal Family Systems with Derek Scott - Completed Spring 2022
- Intuitive Eating Self Study Book by: Evelyn Tribole MS RDN & Elyse Resch MS RDN - Completed Spring 2022
- The IFSCA workshop Susan McConnell: Listening to the Body’s Stories – Somatic IFS & Chronic Illness
- You Already Have a Beach Body: (Re)Claiming Joy in Your Body As-is webinar: Sheena's Place 2021
- Ketamine Assisted Therapy Training for Clinicians Polaris Insight Centre 2021
- Navigating Psychedelics for Clinicians and Therapists @ Psychedelics Today in Progress - Completed 2021
- Group Facilitation Training: Ongoing: Completed 2021
- Eating Disorders and Emotion Dysregulation – Helping Families Navigate Webinar 2021
- Legacy burdens - Getting down to the Roots of Things. An IFS approach by Kay Gardener 2021
- Working with Implicit Communication and the Body in Complex Trauma, Cathy Steele 2021.
- Eco Psychology Certificate program graduate @ Pacifica College 2021
- Learn Veganic Gardening/permaculture program 2021
- Embodying the Unspoken Self: Working with Implicit Communication and the Body in Complex Trauma 2021
- Brainspotting Course with Sounds True & Creator David Grand 2020
- Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with CRPO (covered on most insurance plans) 2020
- Member of The Ontario Association of Mental Health Professionals. 2020
- Spiritual Psychotherapy Training Program at the Transformational Arts College 2019
- Reiki Master Certification (15 year Reiki practitioner-Usui Reiki Lineage) 2019
- Intuitive Herbalism Internship The Gaia Hive 2018/19
- *Mindfulness in Education with Thich Nhat Hann Intensive: Brock University August, 2013
- Level 2 Meditation Instructor: Abu-Dhabi 2010
- Registered Teacher in good standing with Ontario College of Teachers 2009 - Ongoing:
- Bachelor of Education from the University of Trent 2009
- Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art and Psychology from the University of Western Ontario 2003
