Roots & Ancestry

I am a proud, born-and-raised Yukoner. I grew up in a poor, working-class home in a blue-collar town—an upbringing that deeply informs my perspective on the world. While I have called Vancouver home since 2018, my heart remains tethered to the North.

My biracial ancestry is a tapestry of Kaska, Tlingit, Scottish, Irish, English, German, and Central/Eastern European lineages. Carrying these diverse threads allows me to sit at the intersection of many stories, honoring the complexity of where we come from.

Identity as an In-Between Space

As a Two-Spirit femme, my identity is expansive. To me, being Two-Spirit means walking between worlds. While I am happily married to a man, my heart loves beyond the binaries of Western heteronormativity.

For years, it felt as though the world was not designed for me. It seemed everyone else had received a "manual" on how to exist, while mine had been forgotten. I eventually realized that even if I had been given that manual, it wouldn’t have been mine to follow. As Carl Jung famously said:

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else’s.”

Calling & Philosophy

Counselling isn’t just my job; healing is my calling. Traditionally, it is understood that healers must walk through their own "dark night of the soul" before they can guide others. For the past two decades, I have traveled the path of the wounded healer—reconnecting through my own journey, formal study, and walking alongside others in their deepest moments of transformation.

I am not here to give you a manual or a pre-paved road. Instead, I welcome you to get lost together—to explore, to play, and to make radical discoveries. I will walk alongside you as you remember who you are, before the world told you who not to be.

You can read of my thoughts in the Reflections page of my site