Embodied Compassionate Healing
A safe space for connection, compassion, and healing.
I offer a safe, supportive, and compassionate space to guide you into processing and integrating challenging experiences, reconnecting with your authentic self, and building more resilience. My hope is to support you in having an increased sense of well-being & self-worth and to expand your sense of choice and possibility in life.
My work is rooted in the understanding that our bodies and nervous systems hold experiences that words alone cannot always reach. Together, we explore the patterns held in the body and nervous system, and the ways you learned to adapt in order to cope, stay safe, and maintain connection.
I integrate somatic, relational, attachment-informed, and trauma-specialized approaches that support greater nervous system regulation, capacity, and resilience. Rather than focusing on insight or verbal processing, this work brings awareness to the implicit experiences held beneath conscious awareness — through sensations, emotions, tension patterns, impulses, and other nervous system responses that may still be shaping how you feel and relate today.
But beyond any specific modality, the heart of this work is presence, attunement, and relationship. Healing unfolds gradually and collaboratively, at the pace your nervous system can support, helping you build greater resilience, emotional capacity, self-trust, and a renewed sense of safety and connection within yourself and with others.
How I Work
Why You Might Be Here
Many of my clients come seeking support with:
Anxiety — feeling constantly on edge, overwhelmed, hypervigilant, or experiencing panic attacks and phobias
Depression and shutdown states — numbness, disconnection, lack of motivation, or difficulty moving forward
Post-traumatic stress — lingering symptoms after accidents, assaults, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, invasive medical and dental procedures, or other overwhelming experiences
Developmental and attachment trauma — early experiences that shaped how your nervous system learned about safety, connection, and belonging. This can include emotional neglect, inconsistent attunement, early separation, prenatal or perinatal stress, difficult or medicalized birth experiences, or caregiving relationships where your needs for comfort, understanding, and safety were not reliably met — including environments involving excessive criticism, emotional harm, or physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
Relational patterns — feeling unsafe in relationships, fearing abandonment or rejection, people-pleasing, difficulty trusting others, or feeling responsible for everyone else’s needs
Chronic stress and tension, as well as chronic pain that hasn’t improved with medical interventions
Emotional resilience — developing the capacity to feel and experience the full range of emotions, from sadness and anger to joy and peace, rather than suppressing or constricting around them
Boundaries and relationships — creating and maintaining healthy limits, building deeper connection with self and others
Coping strategies — overworking, perfectionism, procrastination, or other patterns or behaviors that help you cope and feel hard to shift
Life challenges and transitions — navigating seasons of change, loss, or uncertainty with greater resilience and support
About the sessions
Each session is shaped by the moment-to-moment needs of the client, integrating what’s most supportive and meaningful in that space. By working from the bottom up — through the body, the deeper patterns held in the nervous system, and the emotional experience — we begin to create the conditions for lasting, embodied change that ripples into thoughts, beliefs, and ways of being.
Practical Information
Location
In-person appointments are offered in Montreal (NDG and St. Patrick Street area), as well as virtually worldwide.
Duration
Appointments are 60 minutes.
Pricing
Single or occasional/as-needed appointments: $125 CAD
Appointments with a reserved ongoing spot: $110 CAD
Languages
English and Brazilian Portuguese.
Insurance Receipts
As a registered member of the A.N.Q. (Association of Naturotherapists of Quebec), receipts for private insurance reimbursement under Naturotherapy are available.
Getting Started
If you’d like to explore working together, you’re welcome to reach out or schedule a free 15-minute introductory call here.
Beyond Coping: Expanding Into Possibility
In my practice, I don’t see symptoms or behaviors as pathology—I see them as ways that we manage to protect, to adapt, in order to cope, to survive and to keep navigating life the best way that we can. I recognize the intelligence of our bodies and its innate ability to heal. Healing is not about fixing ourselves, it’s about expanding our capacity to move through life with greater ease, spontaneity, and choice.
By bringing more regulation to the nervous system, uncovering the strengths already within us and building tools and resources, we naturally increase access to vitality, connection, presence and a greater sense of empowerment. With a more regulated system, we can respond with more flexibility to the ordinary - and sometimes extraordinary - challenges we meet each day.
Why the Body and Nervous System Matter in Healing
Since trauma is not in the event but rather the imprint of what happened that remains stuck in our bodies and nervous systems, it’s by working somatically - with the body and the nervous system - that trauma can be renegotiated. By working somatically, we address the source of the symptoms.
The imprints of trauma are stored not as narratives about bad things that happened to us in the past, but as physical sensations that are experienced right now. By working somatically, we can reconnect with our inner sensations and restore our inner compass.
Our rational brain does not remember everything; in fact, it often blocks or distorts experiences. Under high stress, the rational brain actually shuts down. It’s in the emotional part of our brain that the imprints of overwhelming and stressful experiences are stored. In contrast with the rational brain, which expresses itself in thoughts, the emotional brain manifests itself in physical sensations, and it’s through a somatic approach that we can directly access and process these sensations. “No matter how much insight and understanding we develop, the rational brain is basically impotent to talk the emotional brain out of its own reality.”, wrote Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score.
When working with early trauma, which often occurs during a pre-verbal stage, and when the rational brain is not fully developed, there is no reliable cognitive memory or narrative to guide us. Somatic memories and responses are our best guides.
Emotions are experienced in the body, they are communicated in facial expressions and body postures. Thoughts and emotions are accompanied by changes in muscle tension. We have a tendency to use physical defenses, such as constriction, to limit emotions to a few places in the body, as a way of coping with them. It’s by working with the body that we can develop more tolerance and increase our capacity to regulate and tolerate challenging and pleasant emotions and experiences.
“One of the clearest lessons from contemporary neuroscience is that our sense of ourselves is anchored in a vital connection with our bodies. We do not truly know ourselves unless we can feel and interpret our physical sensations.”
— Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score