The spaces I work in..

Your hours are excessive but you're constantly working overtime to keep up with bills. Life at home feels chaotic and overwhelming, but there is no energy left at the end of the day to address it. You feel like you're struggling in relationships, family and self-care and just need support to help get you through it.

My partner is a front line workers and I see the sacrifices day to day. I know the dynamic that it creates in the house and the family and I know that you deserve a full life.

As a proud military brat, with several generations of veterans in my family, I am honoured to work with veterans and their families to offer support while readjusting to civilian life and holding space for the heavy burdens that come with the transition. No matter how long it has been since yours or your loved ones service, the experiences, memories and training are part of you.

Trauma changes you. The world is seen through a different lens, whether conciously or not. Relationships of all kinds can threaten our safety and often our only way to feel safer is to make our world smaller. Maybe you can't pinpoint a single traumatic event, but now that you are older you know that your childhood looked and felt very different from others. As an adult you experience high stress and anxiety, struggle to build and keep friendships, have a hard time sitting still, find yourself often putting your needs to the side for others and realize you don't want to live like this anymore. I can help you sift through the past, while getting atuned to yourself and your needs, so you can start meeting them.

You find it hard to stop your thoughts from taking over, and often feel discomfort in your body. Often get stuck in 'what if' or have a hard time sitting still. It's not uncommong for people to tell you to 'relax' or 'don't worry', leaving you feeling misunderstood. You struggle to find comfort and safety in yourself, your relationships and your environment. Maybe it hasn’t always been like this, or maybe it has, but it doesn’t have to be.

Environments, people and situations can be overwhelming. Simple interactions can be exhausting and not many people understand this. It can be hard to make friends, despite your interest in making connections, because you are guarded with your energy. Neurodivergence is not a deficit, even if the way society is built sometimes makes it feel that way - it’s a superpower that we can tap into and creating meaningful connections that support you.

Maybe it started with an obvious injury, or maybe it was more insidious, but now you have chronic pain that impacts you daily. Research shows that chronic pain can often be partially, if not completely neuroplastic - that is, a misunderstanding between the body and the brain regarding a stimulus. I’ll work with you to gather evidence of neuroplastic pain if that is the case, and find ways to renegotiate your experience through connection, curiosity and somatic healing.