MY STORY
I came into the world fast, wide open, and wired to feel things most people didn’t even notice.
I was tuned into a different station entirely. I could feel the light in a room, the shift in a tone, the stories no one was saying. In many childhood photos, I look like I’m not totally there. No one seemed to understand. Teachers called me distracted. Friends called me weird. Family told me I was overreacting.
The world had no space for someone like me—someone tender, so alive, so affected.
I was forced to adapt to get my needs met.
I learned to repress and perform. I shrank myself. I masked. I disappeared into the background. I pushed things down just to keep up — but the harder I tried to fit, the further I drifted from myself. The more I stayed inside the lines, the more anxious, overwhelmed, and disconnected I became — until my body couldn’t hold the weight of it anymore.
I stopped bothering trying to explain and I turned it all inward.
I swallowed it down and smiled when I wanted to scream, coping however I could. First with sugar, bingeing on ice cream on the weekend mornings. Then with treats—sneaking coins from my dad’s pockets to buy candy, and eventually substances—anything to numb the ache of not being understood. And in the process, my light, my gifts, all the beautiful things I came into the world to offer got drowned out and I began focusing on just trying to survive.
When you spend that long shoving down your sensitivity, you lose touch with your life compass.
I ended up in relationships with people who didn’t see me, didn’t value me, and sometimes even harmed me. I took jobs that drained me, environments that had me shrink. I contorted myself to survive in spaces that were never built for someone like me. What I wanted more than anything was to belong— to be included; to be chosen. So I said yes to things that weren’t really mine—friendships, roles, beliefs that looked good from the outside but left me feeling hollow. I chased validation in places that never held my values. I betrayed myself just to feel like I had a place in the circle.
The more I ignored the truth of who I was, the further I drifted from myself — until I was almost lost for good.
It wasn’t until I got sober that I realized how split I’d become — one foot in the dark, one foot in the light. Still aching for something more, but too afraid to let go of the world I knew. Sobriety was the portal. The slow return. One day at a time, one moment at a time, I started choosing to feed the light instead of the pain. To stop abandoning myself. To let my sensitivity guide me instead of shame me.
After years of training, healing sessions, and deep spiritual inquiry, I found my light again.
From Kundalini Yoga to Sat Nam Rasayan to working with world-class energy healers—I immersed myself in everything I could to heal and as soon I felt whole again, I immediately wanted to help others do the same and prevent kids like me from the pain I experienced.
I started working with City Kids, spending my Friday nights facilitating groups for teens, creating spaces where they could be seen, heard, loved — where they could begin finding their way home to themselves. I became a child and youth worker and then a nanny for Courtney Love. I worked at Passages Malibu, building programs that helped people not just stay sober, but meet the tender, sensitive parts of themselves they’d learned to bury.
In 2009, my beautiful non-verbal nephew Rhys was born in Toronto, having seizures every day for forty days. I was in L.A., but I connected with him across the distance — sending love, silently and energetically. I became his surrogate in spirit, calling in every healer I knew, holding him in prayer, and doing everything I could to support his healing. When we finally met, I knew he had felt it all. That moment marked the beginning of my deeper commitment to my healing path.
Now, I guide highly sensitive, neurodivergent, and autistic children and adults to reconnect to their true essence. I work with families navigating the mystery, beauty, and challenge of raising sensitive souls, and I support the ones who are done contorting themselves to fit into a world that wasn’t built for their brilliance. Even the pain, the detours, the moments you felt lost — it’s all part of the path bringing you back to the truth.
Everything is for you. Nothing is against you. Only your mind tells you otherwise.
Beneath it all, you have always been, and will always be, deeply loved.
This is the field where healing begins.
Whether you’re here for your child, or for yourself… Welcome to the Sanctuary for Sensitive Souls.
Modalities, Certifications, Trainings & Practice
Workshops & Certificates
- 1998 – Advanced Diploma in Child and Youth Work, George Brown College
- 1999 – Kundalini Yoga Training, with Gurmukh Khalsa at Golden Bridge Yoga
- 2001 – Sat Nam Rasayan Healing
- 2002 – Raven Drum Foundation – Intro to Energy Medicine, with Lauren Monroe & Rick Allen
- 2003 – 10-Day Vipassana Silent Retreat
- 2004 – Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
- 2006 – Quantum-Touch Training, with Richard Gordon
- 2006–2015 – Passages Malibu – Coached clients in metaphysical addiction recovery
- 2008 – Co-Active Leadership Program
- 2011 – Radiance Technique Reiki
- 2015 – Sat Nam Rasayan Healing (continued deepen study), with Mahan Kirn
- 2016 – EpiEnergetics Study, with Donny Epstein, Founder of Network Spinal & EpiEnergetics
- 2017 – Hoffman Institute
- 2020 – Reiki Master Teacher, Usui Reiki
- Past Roles: Family Support Worker, Group Home Counselor, School-Based Youth Worker, Early Childhood Co-Teacher, and Creative Arts Facilitator
Protective Behaviours
Crisis Prevention & Intervention
Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth
Trauma-Informed Practices (through Agape and experiential work), including:
- Unconditional Acceptance — Welcome exactly as you are, even when it’s messy
- Compassionate Connection — A loving bond that gently repairs the roots of relational trauma
- Supportive Presence — Here without pressure, so your system can finally exhale
