About 

 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 and I had to leave as it was actually making me physically sick.

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 first year internship in Intuitive Herbalism (plant spirit medicine) and am an advocate for the medical and spiritual use of cannabis and all it entails. I and am very active and interested in pursuing a career in psychedelic integration psychotherapy and low-cost virtual Ketamine Assisted Therapy (KAP) to help women, Differently Abled, 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC persons navigate mental health challenges such as PTSD.

*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: Ongoing
  • 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

    Interested in Psychotherapy with me? Drop me a note and lets chat with a free phone consult to see if we are a good fit