My intention as a Naturotherapist is to share the knowledge, tools, and techniques that I’ve learned over the years in the hopes that it will lead others toward a happier and healthier life experience. My services focus mainly on the therapeutic treatment of trauma/stress and its physical, emotional and spiritual symptoms. Through therapeutic yoga, somatic therapy, and microbiome/genomic testing I aim to give my clients functional tools to help them better deal with whatever situation may be at hand, good or bad. 

My personal healing journey began after a severe back injury in the mid 90’s, that left me with limited mobility and chronic pain. I started to search for something that could give me some type of relief. I turned to drugs, alcohol and other self-destructive behaviours in my teens to distract from both my physical and emotional pain. It took me until my early 40s to figure out that the deep pain I was still running from that many years later, wasn’t stemming from any physical issue, but from the psychological wounds and neurobiological changes that occurred in response to early childhood trauma. This pain first manifested as anxiety and dissociation, and later on as cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, plaque psoriasis, and osteoarthritis. Bessel van der Kolk has it right, the body really does keep the score.*

Living with ADHD, complex PTSD, and myriad health problems hasn’t been easy, but I’ve come a long way from that self-medicating twenty-something year old. There is still a long road ahead, but I have to keep walking it, regardless of how daunting it may seem at times. Wholeness and happiness are possible, they can just take a lot more work to arrive at for those of us who have suffered trauma.

*The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk