My Story
About Me
I am driven to see my family, friends, colleagues and clients kick-butt doing what they love by being who they truly are. PERIOD.
I’ve spent most of my career elevating leaders and their teams by offering them the best of myself and proving that Human Resources (HR) functions offer value when their leaders personally do. Value is in the eye of the beholder and that is a key tenet I live by. When my clients come to life in ways that are important to them and achieve their growth goals, I do too. As partners in the personal development space, their success also means my success.
In 2017 I hit a point when I no longer felt inspired by the HR career that defined me for so long. As a life-long learner and lover of change, I felt like I had outgrown the HR space and knew that my passion for supporting people with their personal change journeys had to be tackled outside of corporate walls where rigid policies, mask wearing, judgment, and insular thinking were much less likely to play interference. True growth requires trust and vulnerability, which are most often not possible in environments with nuanced rules and practices that endorse conformity and compliance. Psychological research along with my own experience has proven that second-guessing, confidence erosion, and mental health challenges are influenced by such things. Essentially, my own growth as a growth guru had become stunted and so did my spirit.
In 2018 I leapt into a world craving more authenticity, passion, and colour from freestylers like me: mental health and wellness. I didn't know how amazing skill transferability could be until I experienced it myself as I hurdled from HR into clinical work leveraging my empathic, problem solving and design strength to help people reclaim or recreate themselves in healthier, more colourful, and inspirational ways. In 2023, I achieved a life long dream of completing a master's degree in psychology, and now I am finally doing what I do best: collaboratively redesigning people's minds and lives in support of their growth, inner peace, and fulfillment - all of which contribute to a better world. counseling and counselling counselling and psychotherapy executive coaching, grief counselling, marriage counselling, career counselling