BIO

My healing journey began in the late 90’s when, as a single parent, I needed to provide for my family and sought a career that aligned with my core beliefs and values.

Becoming an herbalist provided the flexibility I needed to homeschool my children while also serving my clients. As I worked with clients who were already using natural supplements, I later embraced the opportunity to further support them by joining the team at our local health food store. This role allowed me to collaborate with others to better serve our community’s health needs.

Through my herbal training, I was introduced to Traditional Indigenous Practices, Ayurveda, and Shamanism. I also explored non-ordinary states of consciousness through drum journeying, dreamwork, plant and animal spirit attunement, and learned about death, dying, and coma states.

My experience with addiction in my family and my healing journey as a 'child of an alcoholic' led me to discover Gabor Maté's work and a new approach to healing addiction. His methods resonated with me deeply. When a friend returned from a week-long retreat with him on addiction recovery, I was eager to hear all about it. It sounded amazing! But when she mentioned there was an option at the end of the training to stay for the weekend and experience Ayahuasca, my reaction shifted to total judgment. In that moment, I dismissed everything I had been learning as useless. I mean, really, how could someone in the field of addiction recovery offer drugs?!

Years later, in 2019, people began approaching me with questions about psychedelics, particularly Ayahuasca. What did I know about it? They were wanting to go to Peru and try it. I figured I’d better learn more. Plus, I was curious. I was still reading Dr. Maté’s books. Something about his work had me hooked.

By ‘coincidence,’ an acquaintance mentioned Michael Pollan during a chat and raved about his book and a psychedelic conference they had just attended. I borrowed How to Change Your Mind and read it over Christmas. My perspective on psychedelics completely shifted, and I began my search to learn more.

I found a training program online that had its roots in addiction recovery and also covered psychedelics. It started in 2 weeks! I had my first class in February of 2020. Luckily the training was online because a few weeks later the whole world was in a pandemic lockdown! It was an incredible time to be learning to navigate the discomfort of change.

After I received my certification, I began my journey as a psychedelic integration coach. My personal healing journey paralleled my coaching journey. I met the medicines to learn about them and, they met me to facilitate the healing I needed.

Everything I’ve learned in my career as an herbalist has come together to create a supportive foundation for facilitating psychedelic integration. Through my healing journeys, the medicines have shown me where my strengths are. They’ve challenged me to integrate shadow aspects of myself, face the challenges before me, and embrace the gifts I’ve been given in this lifetime.

As a daughter, sister, mother, daughter of a first responder, single mother, caretaker of a chronically ill mother, and supporter of a father who died from addiction, I have navigated grief, loss, death and dying, depression, anxiety, major life transitions, and the breakdown of inherited family patterns and beliefs. These experiences have brought me to where I am now—living a more fulfilling life, understanding my purpose, being of service to myself and others, and continuing on this beautiful, challenging, and never-ending path of healing that forever leads me closer to my authentic self.

I live on Vancouver Island in BC, Canada where I grew up in the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples.

I am dedicated to learning about the roots and origins of human suffering, our practices of isolation, and our journey home to each other. I humbly serve those who cross my path on their healing journey.