I am a Registered Therapeutic Counselor (RTC #3115) My appraoch is person centered and somatic. Relational Somatic Therapy is a relationally-based, body-and-emotionally-focused therapy that serves to heal relational and traumatic wounding. Glimpses of my studies Diploma in Professional Counselling Skills ~ Orca Institute Certificate in Relational Somatic Therapy ~ Opening to Grace Life Coach ~ Certified Coaches Federation Yoga Teacher ~ PatanjaliYogaCenter Reiki ~ Phyllis Lei Furumoto Bethel Fei Other Training Grief Counselling Ancestral Healing Studies Collective Trauma Healing Nonviolent Studies Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping Life is continuously evolving and I am too! To live authentically, embodying body, heart, mind and soul with spirit, is a lifelong study and I love to learn! I have profound love and appreciation for Life, and its evolution. Nature brings me great joy and inspires me to express my love creatively. I enjoy being with and listening to nature, yoga, songwriting, writing, singing, up-cycling, designing, sewing, painting, dancing, playing with the family, wild-crafting and gardening. I love learning and am an eternal student looking through a lens of curiosity and wonder. I have been drawn to do this work looking for ways to mend and heal the fractured parts. I was born into a lineage for whom living life was a spiritual practice. Honoring the Spark of Life ~ the inherent ever-evolving intelligence, that guides the unfolding of our becoming, was a way of life. Like many peoples, my ancestors experienced overt and covert systemic oppression. The power over dynamic divides us from our essence and disconnects humanity from their human dignity. Sometimes beliefs and old ways of being that don't serve our health and well-being are passed down generationally and become embedded into the fabric of our being. Traumatic events and relational wounds can create wedges that fragment parts of us. We adapt to survive and these adaptations recreate patterns individually, collectively and ancestrally. They play on like a broken record if not seen, listened to, understood and restored to its original movement. This set me on a quest for understanding, mending and healing. I love doing this work because I know what it is like to feel disconnected from my core essence, hope for things to get better and feel the difference when they do. I also experience the benefits of good therapists and counsellors. I value Love and its attributes; patience, kindness, generosity, humbleness, courtesy, altruism, good-temperedness, guilelessness, sincerity, gratitude, endurance, forgiveness and courage. I work to cultivate these values in my life.