Realize Your Full Potential

Welcome! I am a Life Coach, Artist, and Writer.
My greatest joy is to assist others in making positive changes in their lives. This includes:

* navigating life transitions such as changing jobs, retiring, or the end of a significant relationship;
* working through challenging circumstances such as being involved in a legal process,
working with a health challenge, or working at a highly demanding job;
* walking the path to your freedom and bringing your dreams into being.

I started my career as a lawyer in 1995. Initially, I practiced in the areas of family law, criminal law, and institutional abuse,
assisting survivors who had suffered physical and sexual abuse in institutional settings like churches and prisons.
After finding that the systems we were using were re-traumatizing survivors, I left the practice of law for a number of years.
I worked in the non-profit and social enterprise sector from about 2000-2010, as a Consultant
and as the Executive Director of a child and youth serving non-profit.
I went back to practicing law from 2010 until late 2023, practicing mainly in the areas of family law,
criminal law, and union side labour law. In 2021, I became a Certified Legal Coach.

I began my own deep explorations and healing journey in the late 1990s.
This has included many body-centered modalities and practices, grief and loss work, spiritual forms of healing,
as well as ancestral healing and reclamation.

In 2004, I developed Create Your Freedom Portfolio and I have been working as a Life Coach ever since.
Create Your Freedom Portfolio is a 9-step program where I act as a guide for you to go deep within to discover your essence, moving outwards from there to align who you are at the deepest level, with what you are doing in the world.
In the first part of the process, we dive deep into your life and essence to uncover your unique inner riches,
which lays a strong, heart-based foundation for the full expression of who you are in the world.

This process is for you if you want to go within to the essence of who you are, discovering what truly lights you up from within, and aligning your essence with what you do in the world. I have developed a unique program to help you discover and manifest your own dream of a fulfilling life. I have been doing this in my own life, moving into full expression of who I truly am and living a deeply fulfilling life.
I love working with others on this path.

Besides the more structured approach in Create Your Freedom Portfolio, I also offer Intuitive Coaching,
which is a very fluid, client-driven approach to meeting you in the moment to provide support for whatever intention
or goal you have set for yourself. My background as a lawyer and a certified legal coach have provided me
with unique experience and insight to assist clients going through a legal process.
This experience also allows me to understand the pressures legal professionals, and others in demanding jobs,
face and assist them in reducing stress and bringing more balance to their lives.

My approach to coaching is tailored to your needs, goals, and personality.
I believe that coaching is a sacred collaborative process where we celebrate who you are and what is working for you,
at the same time as we bring energy and focus to the areas you wish to develop. Developing a strong sense of who you are is essential.
In what I see and experience, it makes all the difference, no matter what we are facing in any moment.

One of my most fundamental beliefs is that you have the answers you need inside you.
A sacred coaching relationship provides the container, as well as a structured process for uncovering your inner wealth.
I offer the combination of a clear, focused mind, with a highly creative and intuitive approach.

I have navigated many transitions in my life, for example, moving between practicing law and legal coaching,
to providing services for non-profits and social enterprises, to providing life coaching.

Since 2018, I have recovered from a life-threatening illness using mainly homeopathic, naturopathic, and spiritual healing.
I am in the process of writing a book, which will be about my journey with breast cancer,
including the rich and evolving connection I have with spirit, my ancestors, and the land.

I am also an artist and have an online gallery.

I am grateful to live in Coast Salish territory, the home of the T’sou-ke Nation.
I am currently based in what is widely known as Sooke, British Columbia.

I am available globally via phone or Zoom.