Birth changed how I understood the body. My own beginning changed how I understood belonging.

I came to this work through the body, through birth, and through the questions that would not leave me alone.

How do we support physiology deeply while also preparing honestly for uncertainty, complexity, intervention and the fact that birth cannot be completely controlled?

I came into the world with an early experience of being unwanted and resented. Long before I understood prenatal and perinatal psychology, attachment, or the ways experience can shape the body and sense of self, I knew what it was to carry a question of belonging.

That question eventually became part of my work: what helps a baby begin life feeling safe, seen and connected? What helps a woman remain connected to herself through pregnancy and birth? What changes when we treat the body, the mind, the relationship and the baby as part of the same experience?

I cannot change how I entered the world. But I can help other babies begin theirs with more safety, connection and belonging.

I studied kinesiology because I wanted to understand the body. I became a yoga teacher because I wanted to understand movement and embodiment. BodyTalk gave me a way to work with the body-mind, patterns, beliefs, memory, stress and relationship. Birth work taught me physiology, advocacy, uncertainty and what happens when theory meets a real labouring person.

Over time I kept gathering tools because no single lens could hold the whole experience.

The credentials matter to me, but they are not really the story. They are the tools I gathered because one discipline was never enough.

BSc Kinesiology, Minor Psychology — University of Saskatchewan

Certified BodyTalk Practitioner

Body Ready Method® trained practitioner

Perinatal Patient Advocacy

CBT + Somatic Practitioner

GoodBirthCo Birth Trauma Prevention

Certified Infant Sleep Educator

Registered Yoga Teacher + Pre/Post Natal Yoga training

Ongoing study in prenatal and perinatal psychology, stillbirth prevention, birth physiology and integrative mind-body care

I trust birth physiology deeply — and I also respect pathology, complexity and the times when medical care is genuinely needed.

Supporting physiology is not the same as refusing intervention. Advocacy is not about teaching women to fight their care providers. It is about helping them stay in the conversation.

I am interested in what helps you stay connected to yourself, your body, your baby and your own authority through the experience.

There is a difference between surrendering your power and surrendering to life. My work is about helping you keep the first while learning the second.

My work is informed by a prenatal and perinatal psychology perspective in which the baby is not treated as a passive object moving through pregnancy and birth.

I become curious about relationship, attachment, stress, belonging and what the experience may mean within the family system. In BodyTalk sessions, the yes/no biofeedback process may direct the session specifically to baby.

This is not fetal assessment and it does not replace prenatal medical care. It is part of the consciousness-based framework through which I work.

My deeper mission is to help babies begin life feeling safe, seen and connected — starting before birth.