Some of my earliest memories include dancing amongst the wild grasses in the back field of my rural home, feasting on plump, early summer salmon berries, and tracking the movements of bees on red clover. Memories of being a body, all sensing and feeling. These images and the visceral joy and expansion I feel when I come in contact with them, continue to act as a north star for me.

I am a self identified somonaut, an explorer of inner space — forever fascinated by the body as a vehicle for experience, story and cohesion.

My early adult life was spent devoted to travel and adventure, punctuated by short stints of work in high volume restaurants. After some time, I landed long enough to earn a BA in Cultural Anthropology from UVic. I have always been drawn to understanding the human condition.

To offset all the sitting and studying inherent in academia, I entered into a new relationship with the practice of yoga. It was not love at first sight. I often found myself in discomfort, irritated and disoriented, and yet I returned.

Something inside me was changing. 

My study and practice of yoga deepened and in 2009 I completed the first of many teacher trainings. Three years later, I opened a community practice space called The Doghouse with a focus on education and embodiment. In the 10 years that followed, I learned the art of space holding, working with groups and individuals, hosting and leading workshops, classes, retreats and trainings. This work satisfied my social butterfly and event’s coordinator parts, but my soul craved to work with people on deeper level.

In 2021 I began my studies in Relational Somatic Therapy taught by Mariah Moser, and in 2022 completed my training in Compassionate Inquiry™. These two modalities opened me up to the rich complexity and intelligence of the autonomic nervous system and human attachment. These systems deeply inform my work with clients and students, and keep me ever curious about what it means to be a relational human being.

I am also a devoted student and teacher of the Enneagram, and informed by the model of Internal Family Systems (IFS). I consider myself a synergist, a devotee and weaver of pyscho-spiritual maps, and am particularly delighted by conversations that intersect science and spirituality.

My current work life is varied and dynamic, adjusting to seasons and the rhythms of my life. I enjoy 1:1 sessions, stand alone or working in conjunction with my small and large group programming. I also delight in collaborating with other practitioners to offer workshops and community experiences. I often describe the work I do as ‘widening circles’ like throwing multiple stones in to a lake, concentric circles forming and overlapping. I value community, growing and supporting through shared experience and mutual aid.

I believe in the inherent wisdom of the body, that pleasure is a birthright, that humor is an essential ingredient to life. I am also devoted to shadow work, my own, and helping others to shine the light of awareness on their exiled parts. My desire is to accompany others as they learn to stretch, accept and hold the difficulties and challenges that mark our lives. I also feel it necessary to celebrate the triumphs, however small, along the way.

I am a mother, poet, gardener, dancer, snowboarder, friend and devotee of the natural world.

My current obsessions are paradox, dill pickle potato chips and the miraculousness of dahlias. 

I am immensely grateful for the opportunity to work, play and live as a visitor on the traditional and stolen territory of the K’omoks First Nation–the Sahtloot, Sasitla, Ieeksun, Xa’xe and Puntledge peoples.