With over two decades of experience in health and wellness, my work is rooted in something most practitioners don't talk about openly. I've lived it.

Growing up, I faced significant emotional and physical challenges, childhood trauma, relationship trauma, anxiety, and depression. As a young person, life often felt unstable and overwhelming. It was the world of health and wellness that gave me solid ground. Moving my body, learning about it, and tuning into its signals became my way back to myself. In many ways, this path was my lifeline, and that's exactly why I take it so seriously when someone trusts me with theirs.

That personal foundation led me to build a career that's anything but linear. I completed a Diploma in Sports Science, followed by a Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology and Psychology, and began working as a personal trainer in 2001. Over the years, my practice naturally deepened, into Kinesiology, into movement rehabilitation, and eventually into Manual Osteopathy, where everything finally came together.

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Along the way, I faced my own physical storms, two debilitating concussions, chronic sciatic pain, and persistent postural issues that affected my shoulders and daily life. These weren't just inconveniences. They were teachers. They gave me a visceral, firsthand understanding of how pain, whether its origin is physical, emotional, or somewhere in between, doesn't stay in one place. It moves through us. It shapes us. And it can be released.

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Trauma and the body are inseparable and that's where I do some of my most meaningful work.

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One of my deepest clinical passions is working with people whose physical symptoms have roots in trauma. Whether that trauma is emotional, relational, or the result of physical injury, the body holds onto it in ways that standard treatment often misses. My background; spanning, psychology, movement science, and osteopathic principles, allows me to work at that intersection with both precision and compassion.

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Over the past five years completing my Manual Osteopathy training, I've also had the privilege of taking my practice far beyond Vancouver. Volunteering with Osteopathy Without Borders in Peru, I worked with patients across a wide range of pathologies and cultural backgrounds with no shared language between us.

What that experience demanded of me was profound: I had to learn to listen entirely through my hands. No intake shorthand, no verbal confirmation, just presence, touch, and trust in what the tissue was telling me. That time in Peru didn't just broaden my clinical exposure. It sharpened my palpatory skills in a way that nothing else could have, and it deepened my respect for the body's ability to communicate when we learn to truly pay attention.

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Today, my approach is grounded in the bio-psycho-social model of care; meaning I consider not just your symptoms, but the full context of your life, history, and nervous system when working to uncover the root cause of your discomfort.

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I offer Functional Manual Therapy: a hands-on, integrative method that blends the structural precision of osteopathic principles with the movement-based insight of kinesiology. It's whole-body care designed for long-term healing and functional resilience, not just symptom management.

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If you have kinesiology coverage through your extended health benefits, receipts can be provided for reimbursement.

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Ready to take the first step?

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If you're curious whether this work is right for you, I'd love to connect. Book a complimentary 15-minute discovery call and let's have a real conversation about what you're dealing with and how I might be able to help.

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No pressure. No jargon. Just an honest conversation.

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