A lifelong fascination with the human experience and easing it for others.
In addition to intuitive counselling, I use a spiritual tool called Human Design. These combine to guide clients to live their best lives. Well over 1000 hrs in individual sessions and over 2500 hours have accrued while facilitating groups since 2006.
My goal is creating safety for people to share and learn about themselves. Clients are guided to learn about their nervous system, their attachment style, relationship patterns, and gain a better understanding of their history. This all helps us to context and design aligned actions which move toward their goals and dreams.
"The future creates the present." This quote, from a source unknown, prompted reviewing my life and finding gratitude for every struggle. That perspective was not always within reach when, "in the thick of it." Highly sensitive to my environment since childhood, I was literally able to feel all of the energies in my surroundings. Being a loner made finding friends and relating to the world around me difficult. Anxiety and bouts of depression during adulthood were not uncommon. Questing to calm life's noise and inner struggles was, in hindsight, a deep desire to be unapologetically me.
Divorce in 1999 stirred something within and created an opportunity to connect to deeper parts of myself. My personal growth journey and greater awareness began. The inner voice's whisper could no longer be ignored. The years which followed provided many wonderful experiences, tests and challenges. Each one brought a deepening sense of inner strength, understanding and meaning. Along the way a brand new path formed and the re-creation of my life began. This journey continues, stripping away life's layers, while passionately committed to helping others do the same.
I have over 27 years of team leadership experience in the food service industry. This is well over 44,000 hours of leading, learning about and coaching people, both individually and in groups. I have an intrinsic passion for people and love championing the changes we can make in our personal and professional lives when motivated by our unique values. In 2006 I graduated from the Co-Active Training Institute, one of North America's premier Life Coach training programs, to support this even more fully.
In April of 2014 a men's initiation weekend, run by the Mankind Project, called the New Warrior Training Adventure was attended. It powerfully awakened something within that had long been dormant: a strengthened connection to nature, my mission and purpose. Shortly thereafter I began offering weekly mens' circles in Squamish, BC, facilitating these gatherings for 7 years before relocating to this province's Interior.
In recent years I have held positions as Support Staff, Group Facilitator and Life Coach at the Paradise Valley Healing Center near Squamish, BC. These roles were in perfect alignment with my values and purpose, providing opportunities to learn and share my gifts. I have also worked as the Addiction Program Facilitator at iRecover Addiction Treatment Center in the Okanagan.
I am a past board member of the Helping Hands Society in Squamish and volunteered for the RCMP as a Citizen on Patrol and an Auxiliary Constable. I am also a Restorative Justice facilitator, past Chairperson, for the Sea to Sky Restorative Justice Society.
These and many more rich life experiences provide much to draw upon while compassionately supporting others.
My goal is creating safety for people to share and learn about themselves. Clients are guided to learn about their nervous system, their attachment style, relationship patterns, and gain a better understanding of their history. This all helps us to context and design aligned actions which move toward their goals and dreams.
"The future creates the present." This quote, from a source unknown, prompted reviewing my life and finding gratitude for every struggle. That perspective was not always within reach when, "in the thick of it." Highly sensitive to my environment since childhood, I was literally able to feel all of the energies in my surroundings. Being a loner made finding friends and relating to the world around me difficult. Anxiety and bouts of depression during adulthood were not uncommon. Questing to calm life's noise and inner struggles was, in hindsight, a deep desire to be unapologetically me.
Divorce in 1999 stirred something within and created an opportunity to connect to deeper parts of myself. My personal growth journey and greater awareness began. The inner voice's whisper could no longer be ignored. The years which followed provided many wonderful experiences, tests and challenges. Each one brought a deepening sense of inner strength, understanding and meaning. Along the way a brand new path formed and the re-creation of my life began. This journey continues, stripping away life's layers, while passionately committed to helping others do the same.
I have over 27 years of team leadership experience in the food service industry. This is well over 44,000 hours of leading, learning about and coaching people, both individually and in groups. I have an intrinsic passion for people and love championing the changes we can make in our personal and professional lives when motivated by our unique values. In 2006 I graduated from the Co-Active Training Institute, one of North America's premier Life Coach training programs, to support this even more fully.
In April of 2014 a men's initiation weekend, run by the Mankind Project, called the New Warrior Training Adventure was attended. It powerfully awakened something within that had long been dormant: a strengthened connection to nature, my mission and purpose. Shortly thereafter I began offering weekly mens' circles in Squamish, BC, facilitating these gatherings for 7 years before relocating to this province's Interior.
In recent years I have held positions as Support Staff, Group Facilitator and Life Coach at the Paradise Valley Healing Center near Squamish, BC. These roles were in perfect alignment with my values and purpose, providing opportunities to learn and share my gifts. I have also worked as the Addiction Program Facilitator at iRecover Addiction Treatment Center in the Okanagan.
I am a past board member of the Helping Hands Society in Squamish and volunteered for the RCMP as a Citizen on Patrol and an Auxiliary Constable. I am also a Restorative Justice facilitator, past Chairperson, for the Sea to Sky Restorative Justice Society.
These and many more rich life experiences provide much to draw upon while compassionately supporting others.
Mission Statement
I co-create a world of embodied unconditional love and self-acceptance.
I co-create a world of embodied unconditional love and self-acceptance.
"You enter the forest at the darkest point where there is no path. When there is a way or a path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way you are not going to realize your potential."
~ Joseph Campbell
~ Joseph Campbell