By• 1 minute of readingMy own experience of burnout after two decades in health, alongside perimenopause, motherhood, and neurodivergence, led me back to myself through Compassionate Inquiry. This opened an understanding of spirit and connectedness to nature, which now grounds my healing. This lived experience is underpinned by my background as a Registered Mental […]
By• 1 minute of readingOut beyond right and wrong there is a field. I ́ II meet you there Rumi I step in that field inviting my clients to join. I bring humility and playfulness to make that field a safe and trusting place. Having gone through many losses in my own life I
By• 1 minute of readingThrough personal and professional experience I know our bodies have a story to tell. In my work with clients I incorporate a variety of creative art mediums and nature. My therapeutic space is in a woodland setting which brings an immediate connection with nature. As an Environmental Arts Therapist I
By• 1 minute of readingI support people who want to understand and transform the deeper patterns behind addiction, compulsive behaviours, and emotional suffering. My work is grounded in Compassionate Inquiry®, mindfulness, self-compassion, and trauma-informed practice. I believe that harmful behaviours are not the problem themselves but intelligent adaptations to pain, unmet needs, and nervous
By• 2 minutes of readingI am a counselling therapist with a degree in psychology, and for almost a decade I have been supporting individuals navigating the effects of trauma, including relationship difficulties, low self-worth, disconnection, addiction, grief, anxiety, and stress. Alongside my professional training, the way I work has been deeply shaped by my
By• 2 minutes of readingI am a psychologist (clinical) and a Compassionate Inquiry (CI) Practitioner. My work is grounded in CI and combines somatic therapy, Transactional Analysis, IFS, and other evidence-based psychological approaches to support people in understanding themselves and reconnecting with themselves with authenticity, self-acceptance, and choice. My journey into psychology began with a
By• 1 minute of readingMy path to CI grew out of my 40 plus years as a nurse midwife. For twenty years I attended births and for the remainder I provided gynecology care. During this time, I began providing counseling care. It was a natural outgrowth of my woman focused mode of practice. In
By• 1 minute of readingMy own journey has shaped my inquiry into what it means to be human and how our earliest experiences shape the way we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. It led me to discover the lasting impact of childhood trauma and the relational patterns that can follow us into
By• 2 minutes of readingI am Laura, a passionate and dedicated Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist based in Ontario. Over the past 20 years, I have been healing from and integrating my own experiences through energy and somatic techniques as well as spiritual psychotherapy. Compassionate Inquiry has allowed me to bring all of
By• 1 minute of readingI began my working life as a biomedical scientist, reading illness in cells under a microscope. Later I spent two decades in finance, the last nine as a chief executive. Both worlds taught me the same thing from opposite ends: the body holds what the mind cannot say. That sentence
