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 supported to take steps to heal your mental health. If you work with me as an executive and leadership coach, you will learn skills for a resilient nervous system and challenge outdated beliefs that are holding you back from success. When you work with me, you will be guided to grow your emotional intelligence and energetic awareness for better personal well being, restorative practices, 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 and internationally certified executive and leadership coach. I offer high performance professionals strategies for greater success and resilience, and offer corporations a variety of program development designs. Influenced strongly by research in optimal well being, my services grow your true inner 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 have a boutique psychotherapy practice for 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, and ADHD. 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 your own profound well being, your personal growth, your peak career performance and guide you to take steps in the direction of your dreams. On my coaching website at www.maia.love, you’ll find self directed online programs, information on personal and corporate services, and articles on well being.
With extensive training in coaching and therapy with horses, I will be opening an equine-assisted therapy practice in the near future. Although equine-assisted therapy is not yet covered by MSP in British Columbia, the growing understanding of the power of equine-facilitated interventions to bring insight to your areas of struggle and challenge, is quite majestic. I look forward to sharing more with you soon - more details coming soon.
About me
I grew up in Canada, where I completed two university 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 accredited 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 treating patients with mindfulness, and presented at numerous 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, The Homestead Tofino and Epona Rise. I have developed specialized corporate wellness programs for The Homestead Tofino, The Hollyhock Whole Human Health Retreat, The Lookout Housing and Health Society, as an advisor for Nature of Work, and as the Neuroscience Faculty Member for the Horse Medicine Leadership Academy.
Credentials
Certified Professional Life Coach | Horse Medicine Leadership Certification | Neuroscience Faculty for the Academy of Horse Medicine Leadership | Horse Therapy Certification | Mindfulness Certification with advanced training in MiCBT | 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