PSYCHIATRY & Executive coaching
Are you ready to feel happier and more energized? I work with driven professionals to regain balance and success. During your sessions with me, you’ll relax and recharge as you reset the biophysics of your brain, heart and nervous system. On a deeper level, you’ll develop greater understanding of your emotions and subconscious. If you work with me as a psychiatrist, you will be supporting in healing your mental health. If you work with me as an executive and leadership coach, you will learn skills for a resilient nervous system. When you work with me, you will be guided to grow your emotional intelligence for lasting success, improved personal relationships and better work-life balance.
“Before you can change the world around you, you must learn to change the worlds within you. “ - Merlin
WELCOME
Welcome, I am a board certified psychiatrist. I also work as an executive and leadership coach and offer high performance professionals strategies for greater success and resilience. Influenced strongly by research in optimal well being, my services grow your true brilliance and ability to adapt.
I am deeply passionate about personal transformation. As a psychiatrist, I assess you for the imbalances that are present, and recommend evidence-based treatment to restore your brain and nervous system to more health. I also have a small psychotherapy practice to offer more in depth sessions for those suited to psychodynamic psychotherapy. I am a fully licensed psychiatrist in British Columbia, Canada and provide psychiatry services for residents of British Columbia, Canada as part of a private psychiatry virtual practice. I enjoy detailed initial psychiatric assessments for directions in care for your family doctor, and offer virtual group therapy for adjustment disorder, anxiety and depression prevention. A family doctor referral is required to access my psychiatric services.
As an executive and leadership coach, I help you profoundly change your life through inner work for a practical and innovative approach to personal growth, peak performance and moving in the direction of your dreams. On my coaching website you’ll find self directed online programs, information on personal and corporate services, and articles on well being. I now specialize in leadership coaching for physicians.
About me
I grew up in Canada, where I completed twos degrees in biology, physics and professional dance, and a third degree in medicine. My five years of psychiatry training at the University of British Columbia were followed by international studies in mindfulness, yoga, addiction medicine and coaching, and teaching as a clinical instructor at UBC. I have taught colleagues a neuroanatomy based approach to mindfulness, and presented at conferences, including the Organization for Human Brain Mapping and the BCalm Mindfulness Summit. For high performance professionals, I have led mindfulness groups at clinics, including Connect Health, Chakra Health and Boreal Wellness. My individual client experience includes working with clients who are first responders, health care providers, doctors, business professionals and CEO’s. I have also offered meditation and emotional intelligence training for personal growth and professional development at retreat centres, including the Hollyhock Retreat Centre and The Homestead Tofino. I developed corporate wellness programs for The Homestead Tofino, The Hollyhock Whole Human Health Retreat, The Lookout Housing and Health Society and as an advisor for Nature of Work. I run an executive coaching and consulting private practice, for individuals, groups and for corporate wellness program design, separate from my psychiatric practice. In my psychiatric practice, I enjoy focusing on psychotherapeutic themes as well as detailed consults to direct future care.
Credentials
Certified Professional Life Coach | Mindfulness Certification | Medical Degree at the University of British Columbia | Psychiatry Degree at the University of British Columbia & Psychiatry Board Certification in Canada | ISAM International Society of Addiction Medicine Certification | Awards for BCMJ Authour and BrainTalks at UBC Founder | Physics & Biology Degree at the University of British Columbia | Dance Degree at Simon Fraser Contemporary Arts School | Bachelor of General Studies at Simon Fraser University | Honours English First Year at the University of Western Ontario | Yoga Alliance Certified Instructor with Mike Nichols 200 hour YTT, Meghan Currie 200 hour YTT and Hilary Keegan YHot 90 hour YTT