In 2021, while navigating my own health challenges and working as a crises counsellor and case manager at The Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI), I found myself in constant engagement with the western health system. I held dual roles as a patient and an advocate in these spaces, witnessing a range of care practices and approaches. While I was grateful that resources were available to myself and the wider community, I was also struck by what felt like an overwhelming lack of consent and trauma-informed practices. This led me to seek other avenues of support for myself and those around me.

I began my studies at McKinnon Body Therapy Center that same year. There, I developed my skill in understanding how the body holds, processes, and communicates its traumas and needs. I became particularly drawn to the subtler modalities of Craniosacral Therapy and Lymphatic Drainage. Requiring deep attunement, skilled listening and slow, patient pacing, these techniques assert a kind of healing that is deeply relational, rather than reactive.

My work involves the collaborative creation of safe containers with the client. Through accessible language, attuned consent, and pacing practices, clients are empowered to recognize their own innate healing capacities.