As a spirited child who struggled to regulate my feelings, I found music — steady, honest, and nonjudgmental — to be my first true grounding. That love of sound and rhythm pulled me into music therapy. Initially, my aim was simple: to help children learn to feel their feelings and calm the storm the way music had helped me.

In practice, my work as a music therapist led me into long-term care settings, and I fell in love with working with adults and their stories. I discovered that hearing a life laid out — the hurts, the humour, the hard-won resilience — was its own kind of music. I also felt frustrated: my training equipped me well to help manage symptoms, to teach regulation skills, to offer immediate relief, but it didn’t give me the tools to move into the deeper, older patterns and beliefs that keep people stuck.

That frustration became a redirection. I trained as a psychotherapist so I could work with what’s under the surface — the early wounds, the inner child, the body’s memory of trauma. My work now brings those threads together: using the somatic, rhythmic wisdom I learned in music therapy alongside psychodynamic approaches that help adults heal longstanding patterns. I help people learn to regulate through their bodies, tend to the younger parts of themselves with compassion, and gently unravel the traumas that shaped them. It’s been the natural culmination of my journey — playful, grounded, and deeply curious about how people remake themselves.