I began my journey of the healing arts in the clinical world of Respiratory Therapy, but soon felt something calling me deeper—a longing for real connection with the people I served. That led me to Acupuncture, where I opened my own clinic and began truly meeting people in not only their physical pain, but their emotional pain and their longing for a better version of themselves.

Through my years of practice, I began to see that acupuncture—as powerful as it was—could only take some of my clients so far. The needle might release the tension, restore the flow, but some of the patterns kept returning. Something deeper was calling to be met.

Often at the core of our dis-ease are the old stories we carry about ourselves, the beliefs that shape how we move through the world. As Dr. Gabor Maté reminds us, a child needs two essential things: authenticity and attachment. In the face of distress & overwhelm, a child will always choose attachment—even at the cost of their authentic self expression. As little ones we learn to distort and hide our feelings, just to stay in connection with those we needed most. But over time, these survival patterns hardened into character, into the very structure of how we move through the world. What once protected us now confines us, getting in the way of the life and relationships we long for.

I began exploring multiple psychosomatic frameworks like Hakomi, IFS, Somatic Experiencing, Breathwork, and Psychedelic Medicines to do my own personal work. My soul awakened thru embodied relational somatic therapies.

My seeking for truth led me to becoming certified in both BBTRS breathwork and Relational Somatic Transformation for Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. I’ve been learning to really meet myself through all the layers of protection, shame, dissociation. This allows me to be ready to hold yours.

We were never meant to heal alone—our very nature is woven for connection, for being witnessed and held in our struggles. This is relational healing: the quiet power of being seen in your wholeness, without needing to perform or censor yourself. Trusting that in the safety of connection, your body can begin to soften, to speak, to remember its own innate capacity to come home to itself.

Registered Respiratory Therapist w/CSRT @ VGH/UBC

Registered Acupuncturist w/ CTCMA @ My Rest Health Studio

Advanced BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release Practitioner @ BBTRS with Giten Tonkov & Jennifer McKeever

Co-staff at BBTRS global live trainings

Alchemy of Breath with Anthony Abbagnano

Certified Somatic-Relational Trauma Informed Practices for Medicine Assisted Facilitation with Rita Bozi @ Brilliant Healing

Trauma Coupling Dynamics with Kathy Kain

Wheel of Consent with Helena De Felice