Counselling Practice
“I changed in ways I can't even describe but I do know that the work I have done with you has been instrumental in my transformation. I did a lot of work to get to where I could work with you but somehow this part of the journey has been more full of joy because it is me finding light and wholeness”
-TCTSY Private Session Participant
Step into your potential.
We’re wired for connection, but it doesn’t mean we feel that connection. Too often many of us feel isolated and alone, disconnected from who we are or want to be. There might be a longing for things to change, maybe to feel at home in your own skin, but instead there is a feeling of being stuck. Change, healing, and transitions don’t have to feel overwhelming or exhausting.
Consider an experience of change with greater ease, embodying a presence of connection, joy, or kindness?
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
Anais Nin
This is an invitation to take steps towards your becoming and belonging through choice, vulnerability, and movement. Together, we will engage with a gentle and trauma-informed approach that offers generative opportunities to befriend your body and clarify your sense of self, to feel some calmness and clarity in your thoughts. I take time to meet you where you’re at, engaging with curiosity while supporting you to gain direction for your life.
I refer to myself as a body and land-based practitioner, bridging the internal landscape with the wilds of the land. So much so, if you’re interested, your counselling session could be outside on the land within nature, incorporating land-based inquiry into your healing journey.
Combining skills developed within my Masters of Social Work at the University of Calgary, I integrate years of experience as a wilderness expedition facilitator, working with the land to support my own healing; skill refinement as a facilitator, trainer and supervisor in Trauma Center-Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment; and training in a Somatic Experiencing with clinical skills as a Registered Social Worker.
I am inspired and humbled by healing journeys that require vulnerability, humility and sometimes a leap of faith mixed in with some playfulness! I strive to collaboratively create a space for you to authentically engage with your pathway to connection and belonging.
Please reach out when the timing feels right for you. If you would like to move forward with a booking, please visit my profile at Canmore Counselling.
I look forward to when our paths cross!
Build your presence
Through somatic experiencing, mindful movement and land based connection, there are opportunities to develop your capacity for greater presence and aliveness.
A Mindful Movement (TCTSY) session is based on experiencing breath and movement, and can last 30 minutes to one hour. These services can be offered online to support to access if restricted by geography or can be done in person. No physical assists are given, and participants are invited into a journey of discovery — a relationship with both their bodies and the present moment is nurtured by being offered choices throughout.
Individuals may self-refer, or access a referral through a clinician, counsellor, or therapist. Mindful Movement sessions are designed to be accessible for anyone, whether they are deepening an existing practice, or establishing one for the first time.
As a registered social worker (RSW), Mindful Movement sessions often qualify for coverage with some health care insurance benefit packages.