How I See Healing

Many people arrive here feeling broken. Not in a dramatic way, but in the quiet, heavy sense of something being fundamentally wrong with them. On the outside, life may look fine or at least functional, while internally there’s overwhelm, disconnection, or a constant wondering why things feel harder than they seem to for everyone else.

We’re often taught to think our way out of pain, power through stress, or fix ourselves into something more acceptable. When that doesn’t work, it’s easy to turn the blame inward. Very few of us were taught how to listen to our bodies, understand our nervous systems, or make sense of our responses without labeling them as failure or dysfunction.

I don’t see healing as becoming someone better or more put together. I see it as coming back into relationship with yourself. With your body. With your story. Sometimes that starts with recognizing that what feels broken is often a system that adapted under pressure. What you’ve been calling a flaw may have once been a way you survived. Healing isn’t about erasing that. It’s about understanding it, updating it, and offering yourself the care that was missing when it first formed.

How I Work (and Why There Are Different Offerings)

I’ve always been intuitive. It’s part of how I notice patterns and make sense of people and experience. Over time, through training, supervision, and discernment, I learned that intuition can be supportive, but it doesn’t belong everywhere. That understanding is why my work is offered in distinct ways, depending on what kind of support you’re seeking.

My counselling and coaching work is relational, grounded, and intentionally non-intuitive. These sessions are guided by ethics, nervous system education, collaboration, and practical, present-focused support within clear professional boundaries.

My energetic healing and medical intuitive sessions are where intuitive perception is used, with consent and defined scope. This work is complementary and non-diagnostic, offering another way of listening to the body without replacing medical or mental health care.

For those seeking education rather than one-to-one support, I’m also the founder of Mind Your Heart Academy, a trauma-informed learning space offering psychoeducation, workshops, and professional circles designed to support understanding, integration, and ethical application in both personal and professional contexts.

What connects all of my offerings is a shared foundation of safety, clarity, consent, and respect for your inner authority. You remain in control of your process. My role is to support it, not direct it.

The Work I’ve Done Along the Way

I didn’t arrive here through a straight line, a single certification, or a neatly packaged career path. For more than a decade, I’ve worked with thousands of people through retreats, workshops, speaking engagements, and educational spaces. I’ve taught stress management within the Coquitlam School District, facilitated learning environments for professionals and organizations, and supported people navigating burnout, emotional overload, and major life transitions.

Alongside this work, I spent close to seven years in ongoing, relational mentorship with multiple teachers. Not quick trainings or surface-level certifications, but long-term, foundational mentorship that shaped how I listen, how I hold space, and how I understand the human experience. I taught spiritual development and meditation as lived practices, not as techniques to master, but as ways of learning how to be with yourself more honestly, patiently, and with greater awareness.

Over time, I began to notice something important. As people felt safer, more regulated, and more connected, deeper material would naturally surface. Not because it was forced, but because the nervous system finally had the capacity to allow it. At that point, education and coaching alone weren’t always enough. People needed support that was ethically grounded, clinically informed, and able to hold greater emotional depth.

That recognition is what led me into formal training for counselling.

Becoming a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor wasn’t a departure from my earlier work, it was a continuation of it. Counselling gave structure, accountability, and clinical grounding to the relational and nervous-system-based work I had already been doing for years. It allowed me to support people more fully, safely, and ethically as their needs deepened.

Today, my work is informed by both paths. The years of mentorship, teaching, and intuitive development shaped how I understand people. Counselling training shaped how I hold responsibility, boundaries, and care. Together, they allow me to offer support that is relational, trauma-informed, and grounded without losing its humanity.

One thing has remained constant throughout it all. People aren’t lacking insight, motivation, or effort. They’re tired. They’re overwhelmed. And they deserve support that respects both their history and their capacity.