I am a registered social worker in Ottawa with 20 years of experience working with children and adults. I currently provide psychotherapeutic counselling and wanted to expand my services to include courses that incorporate spirituality and creativity into personal development.
Spirituality embraces a much broader definition of that which provides meaning and purpose to us, than that which is portrayed with the common understanding of Religion (which can play an important role for many people, however is not the only component to being Spiritual, or having a Spiritual life).
Creativity is with us from the moment we are born, we think easily of creativity during childhood. Creativity allows us to access deeper information about our wounds, dreams, inspirations, truths, and strengths, than that which we can access at a verbal or sometimes even conscious level. In earlier years, using play therapy with children, I could not dismiss the power of the non-verbal for expression and healing. Integrating similar play-therapy based activities into sessions with adults often yielded the same powerful results and “A-HA” moments. Noting these observations over the years, along with my own parallel personal, spiritual, and creative development, I found myself becoming more passionate about helping people access their own gifts and wisdom in this way.
My mission is to be a guide for people to help them become the Creators of their own lives. For this mission I bring a blend of intuitive and obtained wisdom, gained from my years of psychotherapeutic training, from working with clients ranging from children to adult individual sessions, to couples, and family sessions, and my own path of intensive spiritual development.
When I’m not working or teaching, I am at home with my teenaged son, and 2 very opinionated cats, gleaning insights from the dreamworld into the Fantasy novel I am writing. It brings me great joy to be able to provide a place for people to open up to the creative and spiritual dimensions of healthy living on the quest to find their true Self, and create the life they really want to live.
