About

My Story

Five years ago, I felt stuck, overwhelmed, and unsure of how to change my life. I was living with constant fear and anxiety, struggling in an unhappy marriage, and working in a job I deeply disliked.

From the outside, I continued to manage my responsibilities. Privately, I was using alcohol to numb the pain, pressure, and unhappiness I was carrying.

When Life Became Unmanageable

After the birth of my second son, I experienced intense postpartum anxiety. At the time, I was attending school full-time, operating a business, and raising two young children while my husband worked away from home.

I felt exhausted, unsupported, and increasingly disconnected from myself. Alcohol became a way to quiet my anxiety and temporarily escape the overwhelm while still functioning as a mother and managing everything that needed to be done.

Eventually, drinking a bottle of wine each day, waking up hungover, and repeating the same cycle became unbearable. I knew something needed to change, but I did not know how to make that change on my own.

Discovering the Power of Hypnotherapy

During the final year of my marriage, I began working with a hypnotherapist to address my alcohol addiction and better understand why I felt so unhappy and stuck.

After moving my family to Kelowna, I connected with the hypnotherapist who would ultimately help me reclaim my life.

Within only a few months and three hypnotherapy sessions, I became sober and began looking at my life with greater clarity. As my anxiety lessened, I was able to recognize the deeper experiences, childhood trauma, and limiting beliefs influencing my thoughts, relationships, and decisions.

Understanding My Subconscious Patterns

Many of the stories stored within my subconscious mind had been quietly shaping my adult life. I had carried fear, emotional pain, and beliefs about myself for years without realizing how strongly they were affecting me.

Through hypnotherapy, I began identifying and releasing the subconscious patterns that were keeping me unhappy, disconnected, and afraid to move forward.

As I gained confidence and clarity, I found the courage to leave my marriage, become more independent, and begin creating a life that felt aligned with who I truly was.

From Healing to Helping Others

The transition was not easy. A year after leaving my marriage, I was working three jobs and struggling to support my family.

However, the transformation I experienced through hypnotherapy inspired me to help others create meaningful change in their own lives. I enrolled in hypnotherapy training and became a certified hypnotherapist within the year.

That decision allowed me to continue working through my own trauma and limiting beliefs while developing the knowledge and skills needed to support others.

Why I Do This Work

Hypnotherapy did not remove the need for personal responsibility or ongoing inner work. Healing is not always easy, immediate, or perfectly linear. What hypnotherapy gave me was the ability to understand myself, change destructive patterns, rebuild my confidence, and create a healthier, more fulfilling life.

Today, I am sober, successful, and deeply grateful to be living a life that once felt impossible.

Because I have personally experienced anxiety, addiction, trauma, and the feeling of being trapped by old beliefs, I understand how difficult it can be to ask for help. My experiences allow me to meet clients with genuine empathy, practical understanding, and absolutely no judgment.

Helping people recognize what they are capable of is now my passion. I specialize in supporting clients with anxiety, addiction, trauma, childhood experiences, emotional overwhelm, and limiting subconscious beliefs.

Every person’s experience with hypnosis is different, but many clients leave their sessions feeling calmer, lighter, more motivated, and better able to move forward. My role is to provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore what may be holding you back and begin creating meaningful, lasting change.

What Is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is a guided therapeutic process that helps you enter a deeply relaxed and focused state. In this state, the constant mental chatter of the conscious mind can become quieter, making it easier to explore subconscious thoughts, emotions, memories, and beliefs.

You remain aware and in control throughout the entire session. I guide the process, but you choose what you share, how deeply you participate, and what direction the session takes.

Many people describe hypnotherapy as deeply calming—almost like a massage for both the mind and body. Your body may feel comfortably heavy and relaxed while your mind feels quiet, peaceful, and focused. Even when a session involves meaningful emotional work, clients often finish feeling lighter and more at ease.

The goal is not simply relaxation. Hypnotherapy can help us explore the underlying patterns connected to your intended outcome and support you in developing healthier thoughts, emotional responses, and beliefs.

Therapeutic Approaches Used During Hypnosis

Depending on your needs and goals, I may use several therapeutic approaches during a hypnotherapy session.

Age Regression

Age regression is one of the approaches I use most frequently. It involves safely exploring an earlier experience connected to a current emotion, belief, behaviour, or pattern.

Before entering hypnosis, we may discuss a recent situation in which you experienced the issue you would like to address. Once you are deeply relaxed, I will guide you to reconnect with the emotions associated with that experience and explore whether they relate to an earlier memory.

These feelings may lead back to childhood, adolescence, or another meaningful period in your life. We can then explore what you needed at that time and work through the experience in a compassionate and supportive way.

This may include expressing unspoken feelings, developing understanding, releasing emotional weight, offering forgiveness when appropriate, or giving your younger self the reassurance and support they needed.

The purpose is not to erase the past, but to change the emotional meaning and influence it continues to have in your present life.

Subconscious Parts Therapy

Subconscious parts therapy explores the different internal responses or “parts” we develop throughout our lives.

These parts often form with a positive intention, such as keeping us safe, preventing pain, or helping us manage a difficult situation. However, a response that was once protective may no longer be helpful or appropriate in your current life.

For example, fear may have helped protect you when you were learning something new. Years later, that same protective response may continue appearing even when you are capable, experienced, and safe.

Through parts therapy, we can better understand the purpose of these subconscious responses and help them adopt new roles that are more supportive, encouraging, and aligned with the person you are today.

Past Life Regression

Past life regression is an optional approach that some clients choose for personal exploration or spiritual healing.

During this process, hypnosis is used to explore imagery, experiences, or narratives that may feel connected to another lifetime. Some clients approach this work from a spiritual perspective, while others view the experience as symbolic material created by the subconscious mind.

Past life regression may be considered when a client feels connected to a pattern, fear, or experience that they cannot easily relate to an event in their current life. It can also be experienced simply as a journey of personal or spiritual exploration.

What to Expect During a Session

During hypnosis, you will likely feel deeply relaxed. Your body may feel comfortably heavy, peaceful, or almost weightless. Your thoughts may slow down, and you may become less aware of distractions around you as you focus on my voice and the experience being explored.

You are not asleep, unconscious, or under anyone else’s control. You remain aware and capable of speaking, moving, opening your eyes, or ending the session at any time.

Hypnosis requires your participation and permission. You cannot be forced into hypnosis or made to do something that goes against your values or wishes.

The client does the meaningful internal work. My role is to help you enter a relaxed state, guide you through the process, ask supportive questions, and help you remain focused on the outcome you would like to achieve.

Every session is unique because every person, experience, and goal is different. Together, we create a process centred on helping you feel safe, supported, and empowered throughout your healing journey.