ABOUT
The breadcrumbs, led me here
For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to the question of how people grow and what gets in the way. It showed up early in my teaching career in Richmond, where I spent years in a high school classroom learning that the most important thing I could teach had very little to do with the curriculum. I was learning how to see people, how to build a classroom culture where students felt safe enough to challenge themselves, and how to hold high expectations without losing the relationship. I didn't have words for it then, but I was learning how to lead.
In 2010, my community experienced the loss of a young woman I cared about to suicide. I remember standing in front of a classroom full of students shortly after and knowing with total clarity that I was teaching the wrong thing. That moment redirected everything. I pursued a Masters in Counselling Psychology at UBC and spent the next several years training in the kind of deep, relational clinical work that fundamentally changed how I understand people, myself included.
The clinical training gave me something I didn't expect. It wasn't just a new career. It was a way of seeing what's actually happening underneath the surface of a conversation, a team dynamic, a leadership challenge. Years in the clinical room taught me to track the patterns, the relational dynamics, the thing that's not being said. And that lens has shaped everything I've done since.
In 2019, my business partner Laura and I launched Shoreline Counselling, which I now lead as a team of 25 clinicians. Building and leading that practice has been its own education in what it actually takes to hold a standard, have hard conversations, and build a culture where people want to stay and grow. It is also where I learned that the hardest part of running a practice is never the business. It is always the people.
That's what brought me to coaching. I went back to UBC for a certification in organizational coaching because I wanted the methodology to match the lens I was already carrying. Today I work with leaders who have built something that works and are navigating the part that nobody trained them for: how to lead the people inside it.
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
THE DIFFERENCE
Trained as a clinician. Certified as a coach. It changes what I see.
I can read what's happening underneath a leadership challenge because of the clinical training. I can help you do something about it because of the coaching. The integration of both is what makes this work different.
01
I see the pattern, not just the problem
You'll describe a situation with a team member and I'll hear something underneath it that changes the whole conversation. That's the clinical training at work. It's not about diagnosing anything, it's about seeing the dynamics that are driving the problem you think you have.
02
I work with the leader, not just the leadership challenge
The way you lead is connected to who you are, how you were trained, what you're afraid of, and what you value. I don't separate those things out because your team doesn't experience them separately either.
03
I've built what you're building
I lead a 25-person group practice. I've had every conversation I'll ever ask you to have. I know what it costs to hold a standard, navigate a hard dynamic, and build a culture you're proud of, because I'm doing it too.