Conscious Relationship refers to your relationship with life, including your relationship to yourself, Spirit/Source/Higher Self, your personal power, and responsibility. We explore how you orient yourself in these key areas using the mirror of how things are in your life currently. We take a look at the ways your mind has held you back, what limiting beliefs you’ve formed over the course of your life, what repressed parts of you might be running the show, and where there are opportunities for emotional healing and growth.
Conscious Relationship
Hakomi-Informed somatic work is a mindfulness-based approach to self-discovery and healing that focuses on exploring how unconscious beliefs and emotional patterns live in your soma (body) and shape your experience. We practice slowing down and tuning into the body from a place of curiousity and compassion to study, tapping into its innate wisdom and creating space for insight and integration.
Please note, this work is not psychotherapy. Instead, it seeks to deepen personal self-discovery and engage a cycle of transformation towards clarity, action, and deeper life satisfaction.
Hakomi-informed Somatic Work
I’ve facilitated women’s circles, shadow workshops, and supported hundreds of people in crisis intervention and suicide prevention. Additionally, I’ve studied and trained in Conscious Relationship and Hakomi-informed Somatic work, taken counselling psychology courses, and participated in numerous of my own personal growth experiences. I’ve also explored Narrative Therapy, Internal Family Systems, CBT, DBT, Polyvagal Theory and Aromatherapy as part of my own healing journey.
What I keep coming back to is the power of presence and strengths-based action. When we slow down and meet our experience with compassion and curiousity, and learn to support ourselves and take embodied action from that space, something begins to shift.
My work is person-centred and rooted in assisted self-study; building your capacity to feel, observe, and make meaning of your inner world to heal and grow. I’m especially drawn to how unconscious beliefs shape us and how we can work compassionately with this raw material to improve our lives; remembering that we are, truly, never alone (even if it might feel that way).
Education + Theoretical Orientation
Conscious Relationship Training (7 year apprenticeship with Vancouver author and transpersonal therapist P.T. Mistlberger)
Graduate of the Hakomi-Informed Somatic Coaching Program (Embodywise & Hakomi Institute)
Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention (Crisis Centre of BC)
Women’s Group Facilitation
Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy: An Experiential Introduction (12-hour introductory workshop - Hakomi Institute)
Online Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing® (3-hour introductory workshop - Somatic Experiencing International)
Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certificate ft. Frances D. Booth, LICSW (Embody Lab)
Basic Interviewing Skills (UBC) and other counselling psychology courses
200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training (Conscious Yoga Academy in Karpathos, Greece)
My training:
Professional Certification Program in Aromatherapy and Essential Oil Science (Essence of Thyme College of Holistic Studies ft. Colleen Thompson, Cert Ed, MIFPA, RA®, EOT®, CA) — ONGOING
Easing Emotions of Grief Through the Sense of Smell (Essence of Thyme College of Holistic Studies ft. Margo Fletcher, RA®) — ONGOING
DBT Skills with Dr. Marsha Linehan — ONGOING