The work behind the work.
I grew up learning to read the room before I learned to read the map. Not because someone taught me. Because safety required it. I learned early that the parts of yourself you hide are usually the parts that hold the most truth.
That understanding took me in two directions that most people never connect.
The first was corporate banking. A world of high performance, visible ambition, and the quiet, persistent cost of becoming whoever the institution needed you to be. I watched capable, intelligent people suppress the most essential parts of themselves in exchange for belonging. I sat with people who were doing everything right. And still felt something essential was missing.
The second was frontline crisis services, specifically work supporting women rebuilding their lives after violence. I sat with people at the furthest edge of what a human being can endure. And I saw the same thing I had seen in the boardroom: people who had learned to perform survival so convincingly that they had almost forgotten there was something else available to them.
The distance between those two worlds, in most cities, is about four miles. The distance between the patterns I observed in both of them was almost zero.
I was fired once for speaking the truth in a room where silence was expected. I sat with that for a long time. What I understood, eventually, was that my willingness to name what others were performing around was not a liability. That was the work.
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For 14 years, alongside everything else, I was building something. A framework. A mantra. A book. Not because I planned it. Because I couldn't stop returning to the same question: what is the specific moment that changes everything?
Not the inspiring talk. Not the insight on paper. The moment, in a real room, with a real person, when someone finally sees themselves clearly enough to make a different choice.
I See Me, I Hear Me, I Feel Me is the methodology I built around that moment. It draws on the neuroscience of neuroplasticity, the psychology of emotional intelligence, and 14 years of facilitating that shift in rooms of every kind. Corporate boardrooms, community halls, crisis shelters, and intimate group circles.
It is named. It is teachable. And it works on human beings as they actually are, not as we are told we should be.
I have also written and published a self-discovery book built around this framework. A tool for writing your life story in a colourful, honest, and healing way. It goes home with every person I work with.
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I hold an Honours degree in Psychology and trained in Psychodramatic Bodywork with Susan Aaron. I have spent over a decade working alongside some of Canada's most respected therapists and group facilitators: Elizabeth White, Eileen Daly, and Nancy Ross among them. I have run workshops in corporate offices, community halls, and women's shelters. I have facilitated group experiences for over ten years across organisations, crisis services, and community settings. I have written and published a self-discovery framework used in individual and group settings.
None of that is why people come back.
They come back because something shifted in the room. The credentials are how I got there. The work is what happens inside it.
If you'd like to know more about the work, the framework, or whether any of this is right for you, I'd love to talk.