ABOUT
The breadcrumbs, led me here
I started as a teacher. Secondary school, Richmond, BC — history and social studies. I learned how to learn by learning how to teach, which turned out to be the most important education I've ever had.
In 2010, someone I cared about died. I was standing in front of a classroom, and something became very clear: I was teaching the wrong thing. What happened next was a Masters in Counselling Psychology, a private practice, and eventually a group practice I've been building and leading for the better part of a decade.
The coaching piece came later — but it didn't arrive from nowhere. Years in the clinical room gave me a particular way of seeing people: the patterns underneath the presenting problem, the relational dynamics that don't show up in a strategy conversation, the thing that's actually in the way. Training in organizational coaching at UBC gave me the methodology to work with it.
Today I carry a small coaching caseload, lead a 25-person practice at Shoreline Counselling, and sit at the intersection of clinical depth and leadership performance. It's the only place that's ever made complete sense to me.
CREDENTIALS AND TRAINING
2025
Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
International Coaching Federation
2022
Certificate in Organizational Coaching
University of British Columbia
2017
Registered Clinical Counsellor - Approved Clinical Supervisor (RCC-ACS)
BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
2016
Master of Education — Counselling Psychology
University of British Columbia
HOW I WORK
The clinical and the coaching don't sit in separate boxes
They inform each other. That's what makes the work different from hiring a coach who's never been in a clinical room — or a therapist who's never been trained to coach.
01
I track what's underneath
Clinical training means I'm always listening for what's happening beneath the conversation — the pattern, the relational dynamic, the thing that's not being said. That changes what's possible in a coaching session.
02
I work with the whole person
Not just the professional presenting problem. The strategy challenge that keeps recurring usually isn't a strategy problem. I can hold that complexity without turning it into therapy.
03
I bring experience, not just method
I've built something. I know what it costs. When it's useful, I offer perspective from that place — not to tell you what to do, but because lived experience is different from theory.