It all started when…

I gave birth to my beautiful son amidst a chaotic, medically-dominated birthing experience that left me traumatized.

I had already been a therapist for many years, so I sought therapeutic support to move through postpartum PTSD and anxiety. It was helpful to talk about my experience, but my symptoms didn’t subside.

I felt weak, breathless, highly anxious, and completely overwhelmed.

It wasn’t until my next therapist used EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing) to effectively release the trauma my body was holding onto, that I began to return to myself.

Not only did my postpartum symptoms resolve, but the process revealed to me the root cause of my life-long, chronic autoimmune illnesses (which was unresolved grief, and intergenerational trauma).

I also experienced a significant reduction of inflammation in my body, leaving me symptom-free to live my life as I please.

I am now medication-free, and have a deeply loving relationship with my body.

Yes, there are ups and downs, but life feels much more manageable, as I live inside this meat-suit :)

This experience has taught me how to truly love others in my life more deeply, as well.

After that profound experience, I received training in EMDR, and since then have advanced from student to teacher. I now enjoy teaching other therapists how to use EMDR creatively and effectively.

Kundalini Yoga entered my life in about 2010 and has been a love of mine ever since. Since then I’ve enjoyed learning and experiencing these sacred teachings and practices, and I became trained to teach in 2019. The teachings and philosophies trickle into every aspect of my work with clients.

Another joy of mine is helping other therapists build profitable, burn-out-proof practices with clients they love working with so they can enjoy the benefits of entrepreneurship, and helping their clients with profound transformations. I still love doing this work because I believe therapists deserve to be well-paid, well-cared for, and successful in business so that society can benefit from our training and services. I also show therapists ways they can be intentionally generous in their work and in their time so they can honour the call for social justice-informed business.

Then, in 2023 I finally answered the call from deep within to become trained as a Death Doula and serve others from this angle as well. I love being a therapist and yoga teacher, and I know that my journey as a death doula is a synchronistic addition to my role as a healer and guide.

It is a privilege to serve another human being who wishes to no longer be victim to their traumas and negative self-beliefs, but instead, be in command of their mind & body so they can reach their highest potential to be creative and loving toward self and humanity in life, as well as at the end.

Welcome to the Aquarian Age. It would be my pleasure to serve you.

Sat Nam

Andrea

Credentials:

  • Psycho-Spiritual EMDR Clinician & Approved Consultant

  • Chronic Pain and Chronic Illness Specialist

  • Business Coach and EMDR Consultant for Therapists

  • Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Teacher

  • Highly Sensitive Person & Artist

  • Founder of The Aquarian Academy - business coaching, leadership development, health & wellness online space


Registrations & Trainings:

  • Registered Social Worker with the OCSWSSW,

  • Masters in Social Work from University of Toronto,

  • Approved EMDR Consultant (teacher) for EMDR Therapists

  • Member of EMDR International Association

  • Member of EMDR Canada

  • Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Teacher Level 1, trained by Ra Ma Institute for Applied Yogic Science, California, USA,

  • Tao Hands Practitioner from the Tao Academy in Toronto, Canada

  • Death Doula - Trained by Karry Sawatsky of Modern Deathcare, Ontario, CA