My Intentions

As a registered clinical social worker and Ayurvedic practitioner, it is my pleasure to genuinely connect with you so that counselling is customized to meet your unique needs. I also intend to support you on your journey to self-healing by providing tools for self-inquiry, awareness building, and emotional healing. We all need ways to cultivate strength, resiliency, and compassion. The ancient practices of Ayurveda and yoga can offer timeless tools that can help. I’ve experienced firsthand how they can be used to know the truth of who we are, heal our bodies, and wake us up to a more meaningful life.

My Role As An Integrative Therapist

I believe that we all can experience wholeness and lead fulfilling lives despite the struggles we are enduring or have endured. In fact, I believe we can grow to see even the hardest moments and experiences as our medicine and our teachers. I deeply value community connection and am truly honoured to support individuals as a clinical social worker in the space of challenge, vulnerability, and growth.

Experiences and Specializations

I help individuals, couples, and families seeking support with trauma, addiction, grief and loss, loneliness, life transitions, and relationship difficulties. I also specialized in supporting youth and their families in the areas of mental health, anxiety, depression, communication, self-esteem, and disordered eating patterns. Together, as an Ayurvedic health practitioner and passionate yoga teacher, I can assist you in transforming your relationship with food, developing a sustainable self-care routine, and adopting a personal yoga practice that can strengthen your overall wellness as well as down-regulate your nervous system to help you achieve optimal health and improve your relationship with yourself and your loved ones.

Background

Professionally, I have a rich and diverse background. In my role as a social worker, I worked in a non-for-profit in poverty reduction and homelessness prevention, as well as developed and coordinated an at-risk Indigenous youth program. In recent years, I’ve been working in the medical system as an oncology and acute care social worker, and also worked extensively in the mental health sector as a youth crisis response clinician, and with the early psychosis intervention team.

More recently, I completed my Master's in Social Work receiving training and mentorship as a family therapist working with young children, youth, and their parents through an attachment lens. I also teach trauma-informed yoga at a local studio and have been taking an online training program as an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner as well as body-focused psychotherapy training with Somatic Experiencing International. Although I can certainly draw on knowledge and experience from the mainstream discipline of social work and Western therapy, I have found that Ayurveda and Yoga can serve as practical tools that cut to the chase and allow change and healing to happen much more quickly, especially when combined with the tools of CBT, Somatic Experiencing Therapy, and trauma therapy.

Therapeutic Approaches

Person-Centered, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Attachment Theory, Strength-Based, Somatic Experiencing, Trauma therapy, Holistic, Mindfulness, Ayurveda & Yoga, Meditation

Credentials

Associates Arts Degree with Thompson Rivers Universtity

Bachelor in Social Work with Thompson Rivers University

Masters in Social Work with University of Northern British Columbia

Additional Training:

Somatic Experiencing Beginner Level 1 (completed)

200 hr Yoga Teacher Training with East + West Yoga

200 hr Yoga Teacher Training with Nelson School of Yoga

300 hr Yoga Teacher Training with South Okanagan Yoga Academy

30 hr Yoga Outreach Core Training for Trauma

600 hr Ayurdevic Health Practitioner with Hale Pule Ayurveda and Yoga (in current completion)