A sanctuary
for the inner life.

My formation weaves together psychiatric-mental health nursing, trauma-informed whole-person formation and leadership, early studies in theatre arts, and a lifelong grounding in Celtic Christian spirituality. The arts have long been a backbone of how I understand the human experience — through story, poetry, image, imagination, movement, symbol, and the ways creativity gives expression to what words alone cannot always hold.

As a board-certified Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, I bring an integrative understanding of spiritual care, mental health, and whole-person well-being alongside my work in spiritual direction and psychospiritual accompaniment. A strong foundation of my approach is Daniel Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and its understanding of the interconnectedness of mind, brain, body, and relationships. Practices such as SIFT — attending to sensations, images, feelings, and thoughts — offer a gentle way of slowing down, becoming curious about present-moment experience, and cultivating greater awareness, integration, and compassionate presence.

My work is also informed by attachment and parts-informed approaches, family systems, somatic and trauma-informed practice, narrative approaches, and the healing potential of authentic relationship and community. Together, these perspectives invite attention not only to what has happened in our lives, but to how experience continues to live within the body, nervous system, relationships, and stories we carry.

I am particularly drawn to depth psychology and the meeting place of psyche and soul. Jungian thought and dreamwork invite curiosity toward dreams, symbols, images, shadow, imagination, and movements of the unconscious. Psychodynamic perspectives invite us to notice relational patterns shaped through earlier experience while also attending carefully to what is arising here and now, within ourselves and in relationship. I seek to listen for what may be asking to become known, integrated, or more fully alive.

My formation has also been deeply shaped by psychotherapists, interdisciplinary clinicians, spiritual directors, and contemplative practitioners across Canada, the United Kingdom, Asia, Africa, and the United States during my own healing journey. Through mentorship and participation in psychodrama, sociometry, group process, family systems, Internal Family Systems (IFS), motivational interviewing, trauma-informed practice, and Wisdom spirituality, I have come to appreciate the relational field itself as a place of discovery. Psychodramatic and sociometric ways of seeing have particularly illuminated how roles, relationships, and patterns of belonging shape us, and how creativity, spontaneity, and re-imagining the way forward can open possibilities for renewal and a new way of showing up in the world — more grounded and at “home” within.

Poetry, storytelling, dreamwork, and the creative arts remain central to my practice. I understand imagination, play, and creative expression not simply as artistic endeavors, but as pathways toward meaning-making, nervous-system regulation, integration, and transformation. They can offer language for lived experience, bring us into relationship with hidden or forgotten aspects of ourselves, and open possibilities that may not emerge through words alone.

Whether accompanying individuals or groups, I seek to create spaces where people can slow down and attend more deeply to what is happening within and between us: mind, body, psyche, soul, relationship, and community. Within spiritual direction, this includes listening for the movement of God within one’s lived experience and story, allowing greater awareness, freedom, integration, and wholeheartedness to emerge.