I know what it’s like to struggle to find the answers.

As a queer + trans + neurodivergent human, a survivor of both abuse and assault, an orphan, a divorcee, and a widow – I know first-hand that life often throws more at us than we can handle. And I know how, too often, traditional western therapies can’t help when life really is this hard.

Approaches like CBT, DBT, and psychoanalytic therapies can fail us, as external resources that rely on our rational mind to engage with; and even when the brightest parts of my conscious mind could engage, I found that my body kept being left behind. Panic attacks at grocery stores. Anger I didn’t understand. Existential grief I couldn’t outrun. The list goes on.

Once I could finally think and calm myself out of a reaction, my emotional responses and gut instincts were gone. How could I hear what I had spent years silencing?

Somatic therapies and plant medicines brought me back to my body – back to the world I so love savouring and to all of the things I delight in exploring. Rediscovering and understanding the microcosm of energy within even brought me back to astrology, tarot, and the magic of the macrocosm of energy around us.

After a lifetime of personal journeying through therapeutic modality after therapeutic modality, half a decade of professional experience in social services and therapeutic work, and over six years education in multiple modalities and plant medicines, I am so thrilled to be bringing powerful approaches as Somatic Therapy, Holy Fire Reiki, and more to you through Psilocycle.

I can’t wait to get started.