I am a mother, daughter, sister, cousin, partner, and friend. My family lines are French/German settler and Indigenous; Métis and Haudenosaunee. These lineages largely inform how I see the world. I live and work on the unceded ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples in the Pacific Northwest. In my work as an applied anthropologist and relationship philosopher, I help people navigate the space between personal rupture and collective healing.

As a trauma-informed social scientist, my work draws on the rigor of academic ethics; but as a woman who's experienced childhood adversity, it’s informed by lived experience and radical compassion. My embodied understanding of how trauma influences relationships began at age 10. After over a decade of sobriety, my parents relapsed, and my younger siblings and I moved in and out of foster care while they struggled with addictions: to alcohol, and love. Those years taught me about the resiliency of the human spirit and what it takes to repair after deep rupture and betrayal. I learned to read relational complexity as a means of survival, but it has since evolved into the foundation of my life’s work.

I have spent over 20 years voraciously studying psychological anthropology and ancient cosmological sciences. My eye is keenly trained to see the invisible threads that connect us and how cosmic and cultural patterns shape our relationships and lived experience. I believe that culture, history, social systems, and the cosmos are inseparable from human relationships, and that the most helpful relationship guidance is the kind that helps us situate our struggles within that wider context.

• Conscious communication
• Non-violent communication
• The Wheel of Consent 
• Indigenous ways of knowing
• Inner child work (not IFS) 
• The Love-Math method
• Attachment theory
• Trauma-informed psychology
• Astrology and Human Design
• Polyvagal theory (nervous system)
• Decolonized psychology frameworks
• Non-binary complexity

A mentorship with me looks like..

In my practice, I guide clients to uncover their core beliefs and reframe them, learn social-emotional skills, develop repair skills and self-compassion, and find effective ways to set boundaries and communicate needs. Just like my most impactful mentor, the core basis of my work rests in helping my clients develop a more connected, calm, curious, and compassionate relationship with themselves.

My style is unique in that I am a resource and what you get depends on what you pull from me. I see life and all of the interpersonal dilemmas we struggle with as inherently complex and abstract. Thus, I guide in a non-linear way. I find that as soon as we label or box things in (as the Western colonial mindset has taught us to do) we lose their essence and the benefits of a holistic perspective. So instead, I like to play in the grey area with ample curiosity. 

A mentorship with me is an immersive experience where you receive undivided attention, care, and radically honest truth. I’m the right fit for people who are ready to be seen, to be uncomfortable, and to rise to their highest integrity. 

Qualifications...

I’ve traveled extensively and witnessed suffering in many forms, both around the world and at home. It's taught me that the work of healing ourselves and building healthy, reciprocal relationships is a form of activism, and one of the clearest paths toward addressing humanity’s biggest problems. Travel deepens my ability to understand relational struggle across cultures and contexts, which is central to the work I do.

I graduated at the top of my class with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and Psychological Anthropology, with a Minor in Communications and Dialogue Facilitation, completed graduate-level coursework in Medical Anthropology as part of a Master of Arts program, and hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Trauma and Stress Studies under Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk. These degrees gave me a deep awareness of how culture shapes our perceptions, how institutions impact our everyday lives, and sharpened my ability to read relational subtext.. to understand the deeper motives, meanings, patterns, and complexities behind how people communicate and relate.

Education is important, but without lived experience to anchor it, it's just theory. What makes any of us good at what we do isn't just what we've studied, it's what we've lived and integrated. My constellation of experiences include surviving disability, infidelity, deep loss, foster care, parents with addictions, and many other challenges that have shaped me beyond any credential. I offer guidance that has been lived, tested, and embodied. I'm here to guide you, with an emphasis on healing through love.