Services Offerings
The Nurtured Seed: Infant Massage &
Heart Centred Parenting
I have a passion for supporting positive early life experiences through nurturing the attachment bond between new parents and their babies. The primal period of pre-conception through to the fifth year of life is formative, where womb ecology becomes world ecology.
I teach new parents the art of infant massage to help establish early bonding and embodiment as well as offer heart-centered Parent coaching. These sessions are centered in coaching, conversation, and capacity building, where parents are supported in how to show up for their kids with a quality of presence and attuned engagement. Learning how they may best support their child through qualities such as Curiosity, Openness, Acceptance, and Love.
Nurture your Nature: Therapeutic Support for Kids & Teens
Children & teens will be invited into a creative process which is meant to ignite their curiosity and imagination to explore feelings, reconcile emotional conflicts, foster self-awareness, manage behaviour and challenges, develop social skills, improve reality orientation, reduce anxiety, and increase self-esteem.
The therapeutic process uses the expressive and self-reflective aspects of the creative process to address issues and challenges across the whole spectrum of human experiences.
Moving Wisdom:
Therapeutic Support for Adults
My approach is to offer the supportive conditions from which an individual may engage in a process of mindful self-discovery and meaning-making; to integrate areas of disconnection; deal with conflict; connect with one's inner potential and outer resources; experience congruency between thoughts, feelings, and actions; and generally speaking, to uncover, discover, or recover, connections to one's own innate potential for healing and learning.
Workshops & Consulting
I support working professionals, such as those in a variety of helping professions (like doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers) as well as entrepreneurs, in accessing their creativity as a way to support personal wellness through coping with stress, and being able to: self-regulate; in developing one's professional presence and mindfulness as a way of increasing their ability to move with change; harness one's imagination and vision to think outside of the box for ingenuity; increased capacity to focus, and to gain traction with projects; increased conscious awareness of one's performance and ethical responsibility in one's occupation; in accessing and harnessing one's creative energy for professional growth.
Education
Masters of Psychotherapy & Spirituality, Art Therapy Specialization
St. Stephen's College
Post-Masters Graduate Certificate in Early Childhood Development & Learning
University of Calgary
Bachelors of Physical Education, Adapted Physical Activity & Wellness Specialization
University of Alberta
Certifications
Canadian Certified Counsellor C.C.C Licence Number 4609
Professionally Certified Art Therapist CATA License Number 12625195
The Association of Counseling Therapy of Alberta Registration # 1775
Expressive Arts Therapist International Expressive Arts Therapy Association (IEATA)
Tamalpa Practitioner of Life/Art Process (in process) Tamalpa Institute California
Somatic Movement Therapist International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA)
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (Intermediate Level) (SEP) Trauma Institute
Certified Infant Massage Instructor International Association for Infant Massage, (IAIM)
Pre&Perinatal Psychology: Association for Pre&Perinatal Psychology & Health (AAPAH)
Greater Good Science Center-Berkely Educators
University of Santa Barbara Child Life
Positive Psychology & Mindful Self Compassion
National Certified Pilates Teacher with Pilates Method Alliance (NCPT)
Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP)
Yamuna Body Rolling & Myofascial Release
Fletcher Pilates Intensive Training: Fletcher Percussive Breath™, Fletcher Fundamentals™, Fletcher Towelwork®, Fletcher Floorwork®, Fletcher Barrework™Fletcher Percussive Breath™
Hypopressives Canada® Certified Instructor Level 1
Pelvic Health: Pelvic Floor & Diastasis Recti Recovery
Pilates & Neurological Conditions