About Me
I founded White Silk Wellness in 2016 while working to receive a diploma in counselling. However, the foundation of my journey started in 2000 when I began working in the fitness industry. While raising my two wonderful children, I learned how important it was to take care of my body, but it wasn't until 2011 that I began to understand the importance of caring for more than how I looked physically.
Like most people over a certain age—as well as many younger people!—I grew up with the unspoken message to ignore the health of both my body and my mind. However, our pasts often chase us, and even when we are not actively aware of what is chasing us, our past experiences can still be detrimental to our lives, overall health, and relationships.
Throughout my healing journey, I have both purposefully and accidentally tapped into my own unprocessed memories. Over the years, I have worked with a trauma counsellor to integrate, heal, and repair the damage and the self-limiting beliefs my past left me with. Within my practice as a counsellor and wellness coach, I applied many of the techniques I learned during my own years of therapy with my clients. Now, as I transition into offering services focused on bodywork—such as Touch Therapy Massage, Hot Stone Massage, and White Tantra Therapeutic Massage—I allow what I learned as a counsellor to aid me in caring for my clients, as they trust me to help them relax and find peace within their body.
Our bodies have the wisdom to support us in our choices and decisions—it knows, and yet many of us have been programmed all our lives to ignore our body’s messages and live in our heads instead. Understanding the wisdom of the body is one of the keys to achieving an overall sense of well-being. In the end, healing our relationship with our body is just as important—if not more important, given how often the relationship is neglected—as working to heal how our mind perceives ourselves and the world around us.
With the goal of helping my clients reconnect with their bodies, I am continuously furthering my education to expand my knowledge and understanding of the body, mind, and spirit. In addition to the numerous continuing education workshops in both psychological and bodywork modalities, I received a diploma in Transpersonal Counselling from Clearmind International in 2019 as well a Practitioner Level Certificate in Acupressure from Fusion Acupressure in 2020.
Today, I both offer a variety of services at my home in Davis Bay and continue to work as a fitness instructor for the SCRD; I am also part of the team at The Oracle in Sechelt and volunteer in my community. In addition, I have a line of crystal jewellery, currently available at The Oracle.
Associates
At White Silk Wellness, I believe in helping people learn the art of healing touch. As such, I also occasionally bring in associates to work alongside me and begin their own bodywork journey as part of White Silk Wellness. Together, we utilize both their previous knowledge and supplementary training from myself to harness their healing abilities for the good of the client.
If you are interested in becoming an associate, please contact me for further information.