About Me
A life woven from many threads.
My path has been anything but linear. Over the past two decades, I've moved between hospitals and healing circles, between academic research and shamanic journeying, between the language of occupational therapy and the wisdom of dreams. Each experience has shaped how I understand what it means to be human, to be whole, and to find our way home to ourselves.
I am a Registered Occupational Therapist with a degree from the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. I've worked in mental health hospitals, with Veterans Affairs Canada, and in community-based practice. I've been a faculty member, an executive director, a co-founder of a women's health clinic, and a research assistant exploring everything from children's play in Uganda to the history of occupational therapy in mental health.
But if I'm honest, the most transformative parts of my education didn't happen in classrooms.
Learning to see differently
Some of my deepest learning has come from what I call my "spiritual training" — experiences that taught me to see beyond the surface of things and to trust in dimensions of healing that can't always be measured or explained.
I've completed trainings in Harner Shamanic Counseling with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies, studied Maya Abdominal Massage from a shamanic lineage in Belize, been initiated into a European shamanic tradition in the United Kingdom, and trained as a shamanic priestess through the Red Moon Mystery School. I've walked the labyrinth path as a Veriditas-trained facilitator and am currently training in embodied experiential dreamwork with Dr. Leslie Ellis.
Most recently, I completed a Graduate Diploma in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy from Vancouver Island University — Canada's first university-level training in this emerging field — and a certificate in Ecospirituality as part of Seminary of the Wild Earth, a year-long program of land-based learning and spiritual education.
These aren't separate paths. For me, they're all different ways of asking the same question: How do we tend the wholeness of human experience — body, mind, and spirit — in a world that so often asks us to fragment ourselves?
Bringing it all together.
What I offer now is shaped by all of these experiences. My background in occupational therapy gives me a framework for understanding how people function in their daily lives, how environment shapes wellbeing, and how to assess and address practical barriers to healing.
My spiritual trainings have taught me to honor the wisdom that lives in the body, in dreams, in the natural world, and in non-ordinary states of consciousness. They've shown me that healing often requires us to step outside our usual ways of knowing and to trust in sources of guidance that our culture has largely forgotten.
Degrees & Certifications
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I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from the University of Toronto in 2002.
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I am a Registered Occupational Therapist in the province of Nova Scotia.
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I am a certified Dynamic Emotional Integration Teacher and Consultant.
I completed a graduate certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy through Vancouver Island University.
I have a certificate in ecospirituality through the Centre for Wild Spirituality.
I am currently completing a certification in Embodied Experiential Dreamwork with Leslie Ellis.
I completed a post-graduate certificate in Holistic Reproductive Health.