Intuitive Somatic Counseling
Connecting the Wisdom of the Body and the Mind
anxiety / depression / self esteem / relationships / spirituality / loneliness / trauma /grief/ sexuality /religious trauma/exiting cults/ addiction/gender roles and identity/men’s mental health/chronic pain/ chronic illness
Are you ready to change?
Do you feel lost, confused, stuck in the same old relationship patterns, or paralyzed by decisions? Nagged by constant health issues or just a general sense that something isn’t quite right? Maybe you even know what it is you want to change, but things don’t seem to get better?
Your healing is already in you.
Our bodies experience our world differently from the way our minds do. Our bodies remember differently. You know that thing where you get freaked out by something totally innocuous? Don’t trust your own gut? Keep dating the same person over and over again, even as you try to do things differently? Find yourself wanting out of some pattern in your life and don’t know how to do it? That’s a thing where your nervous system is making decisions for you. Sometimes that’s because of trauma or some old experience. Sometimes it’s what your mama taught you. Sometimes it’s patriarchy, capitalism, or white supremacy.
The good news is, it doesn’t actually matter that much what it is. What matters is that we can heal.
This is a deeply personal and intuitive process of accessing your innate ability to heal and change. We work together to understand how your system already works and let it teach us what it needs to change. I’m here to help you find that magic.
Education, Etc.
Member of the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta (ACTA) (present)
Certificate in Counselling from Vancouver Community College (2022)
Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy Certificate. PESI (2026)
3-Day Advanced Grief Counseling Certificate. PESI (2026)
Men’s Mental Health Specialist Training Certificate. PESI (2026)
Exiting Cults and High Control Groups. Magicore (2026)
ADHD Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP) Certification Course. PESI (2025)
Complete IFS Therapy Immersion with Frank Anderson. PESI (2025)
Family Constellations (Level 1) with Karen Goodfellow. Magicore (2024)
Trauma Master Series. NICABM (2023)
EMDR Integrative Training with Linda Curran. PESI (2023)
Healing Sexual Trauma: A Professional Training in Trauma-Informed Care. The Breathe Network (2019).
Support Group Facilitator Training. Mood Disorders Association of BC. (2016)
Reiki Level 3 from WestCoast Reiki Center (2023)
Process-Focused Tarot with Jessica Dore (2020)
Archetypal Tarot School with Mariana Louis (2024)
Yoga and Meditation: 500 Hour Certification from Semperviva Yoga (2015)
Master’s degree in English Literature from McGill University (2008)
Mentored by energy worker Jacqui Willcocks (present)
Supervised by Karen Goodfellow (present)
Pricing
I can work with you virtually from anywhere in the world or in person at The Wellness Clinic in West Edmonton. Most Alberta insurance companies cover my services.
Pricing
60-minute session: $140+tax CAN
75-minute session: $175+tax CAN
90-minute session: $200+tax CAN
Couples/Relationship Therapy
90 minutes $200 CAN
All prices are in CAD. International clients do not pay GST. Most Alberta insurance companies cover counsellors registered with the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta (ACTA).
I offer a 15- minute complimentary discovery call to see if we’d be a good fit.
*I have limited sliding scale spots available for clients for whom cost is a barrier. Email to inquire.
About Me
I have always been a sensitive person and was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder in my 20s. Talk therapy helped some, but I needed something that could get past my tendency to over-intellectualize and help me tap into my body, and yoga and meditation became touchstones. For over a decade, I ran a yoga studio in Vancouver, BC, and became fascinated with how the body and the mind connected. I began working with clients one-on-one on mindfulness and stress management and trained in trauma, meditation, and various forms of therapy, eventually completing a certificate in counseling from Vancouver Community College. Since then, I have completed several courses on topics like EMDR, ADHD, IFS, addiction, and more.
I got married kind of late, and I have plenty of experience with heartbreak and the ups and downs of the single life. I have two children, and many pregnancy losses between them, so I am no stranger to grief. I also wrote a book about my experiences healing from sexual trauma. I’m a feminist, which, for me, includes fighting for the rights of women, men, and all genders to be their whole and healing selves. I’m doing my best to be anti-oppressive in my work on as many levels as I can. I have a Master’s degree in Canadian literature from McGill, where I focused on writers who were engaged with questions about racism and colonization in Canadian history.
I am a staff writer for Spirituality and Health Magazine and have written several books, including the Canada Book Award-winning Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault (Mango Media), Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses: Meditations on Desire, Relationships, and the Art of Being Broken (SkyLight Paths), The Full Moon Yearbook: A Year of Ritual and Healing Under the Light of the Full Moon (David&Charles), Maiden, Warrior, Mother, Crone: Divine Feminine Archetypes for Modern Life (Verbena Books), its follow-up Witch, Healer, Priestess, Outcast: Divine Feminine Archetypes for Modern Life, and Secret Tales of the Tarot: A Journey Through the Hidden Histories of the Tarot Deck.
Some of my work is quite spiritual, gusting witchy, but I only pull that out if it feels right and you’re into it—as a friend once said about me, I’m as “woo” as you want me to be. Even within the intuitive framework, everything I offer is based on research, evidence, and/or personal experience, and I have deep respect for wherever you are in your journey at this point. For me, this work is a collaboration: you’re the expert on yourself and your life, and we work together to figure out the path that’s right for you.