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Healing Trauma & the Mystic’s Journey
After ten years as a trauma therapist, I’ve found myself becoming quite fatigued with the literature on trauma; after a while, it’s all became repetitive and restrictive. What I have found out there feels incomplete, like it unwittingly limits us survivors in our...
Reflections on my Values
11/11/21 marked ten years for me in private practice. That's a decade, wow! After ten years, I left my last career, and I feel like I'm just getting started with this one.I'm genuinely grateful for all the humans that have trusted me and continue to trust me in being...
Complex Trauma and Re-traumatization in Spiritual Communities
Many folks that experience trauma during their developmental years turn towards spiritual practices and communities as part of their healing journey and this can be paramount for healing. Spiritual practices can broaden our perspective, help us learn to re-inhabit our...
Trauma Therapy
This is for you if you want to enter therapy for your past traumas but feel unsure about the process. Three stages of trauma care Many of my clients sigh with relief when I explain that we won’t be jumping into talking about and processing their traumas immediately....
Felt Sense Vocabulary
Finding Words Through the healing process I support clients in turning towards their bodies to process, to feel, to gain clarity, to release, and revivify. Initially this can be complicated by a nervous system that is more often than not in a state of...
Impacts of Developmental Trauma
Self-worth. Self- love. Self-compassion. Self-care. Why is it so hard? Why is it so hard to feel worthy? Why is it so hard to feel deserving of love? Why is it so hard to stop critical thoughts? These are topics that come up frequently with clients and it’s...
The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples have been stewards of this land for millennia. As a settler on these stolen territories, I am humbled and grateful to gather here, and work to honour the Elders – past, present, and emerging.