Growing up in the Cowichan Valley, on Vancouver Island cultivated a sense of curiosity and wonder regarding the space I inhabited; I loved finding all the wild places.  Upon graduation, I opted to take a Horticulture program. I could remain close to nature and at the end of the day, I would always be able to grow my own food. This education only deepened my interest in the interconnectedness present within nature. I pursued herbal medicine between 2012-2014, and through studying the medicinal qualities of plants, my passion for health and wellness was ignited. I was gardening full-time in addition to wildcrafting, making herbal products and selling them at local Farmer’s Markets.  I enjoyed building wildlife gardens while educating folks on the medicinal plants that grew within, just outside their doorsteps and within their spaces.

Another thing I have always enjoyed is working with families, women, and children, I expanded my work with what is nature and natural, becoming a birth doula in 2014. Supporting women and children as a birth doula revealed itself as another path on my journey while supplementing this rite of passage for those I worked with allowed further outlet for herbal medicine I was able to provide to supplement. 

I contemplated becoming a midwife. However, in 2018, things shifted as I was in an accident suffering a bad fall and within 24 hours I experienced my second concussion, including stitches, and whiplash. Feeling extremely disconnected and out of sorts, there was still a strong voice within me and when tuning in, that voice said, “Go see an osteopath” and so I did. I was blown away. With only two treatments my pain all but disappeared. The disruption and disappearance of pain allowed me to get back to health extraordinarily fast. The voice inside me was now very loud and I knew this was the direction I was meant to go. 

By the fall of 2019, I began studies with the Canadian Academy of Osteopathy and have spent four years rigorously studying anatomy, physiology, and mechanics. I am primarily practicing osteopathy while attending the occasional birth.

On my off time, you can find me exploring nature, swimming, and rowing. I still wander and I wonder and I am still cultivating my connection to nature.