About Me

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My Training, Background & Experience

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I fell in love with psychology in high school, which led me to study psychology and sociology at university. Later, I completed an introductory counselling program. While I valued the learning, it didn’t feel like the right path for how I wanted to support people. When I discovered life coaching, it felt like the right fit, much like Goldilocks finding what was “just right.”

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I completed a full-year, in-person Life Coach Training Program through Erickson College (now Erickson International) in 2007, earning certifications as a:

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• Certified Solution Focused Coach (CSFC)

• Certified Ericksonian Hypnotherapist

• NLP Master Practitioner

• Professional Coach

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I also completed additional Erickson Coaching International training  in coaching methodology grounded in solution-focused psychology, neuroscience, and neuro-linguistic programming. 

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Although I completed my training many years ago, I didn’t begin working as a Life Coach until more recently. While I used coaching skills throughout my personal and professional life, I didn’t feel fully aligned stepping into the role at that time.

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Instead, I spent many years in roles focused on helping and supporting others, including work with a non-profit supporting students at UBC and Emily Carr University, as well as in medical clinics and multidisciplinary healthcare and rehabilitation settings.

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I also hold a diploma in Natural Health and Nutrition and am currently continuing studies in Trauma Healing, Neuropsychology, and Neuroscience. Learning and personal growth remain an ongoing commitment in my life.

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​The Person Behind the Coach

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I don’t approach this work from a place of having life figured out. I approach it through lived experience, reflection, and ongoing growth.

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I have experienced depression, trauma, grief, eating disorders, divorce, starting over, and long periods of feeling disconnected from myself and powerless. While these experiences were painful, they have deeply shaped my understanding of healing, growth, and rebuilding.

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Over time, I’ve come to see that difficult seasons can hold as much meaning as easier ones. There is room for all of our experiences to belong, and each can shape us in ways we may only understand later.

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Hardship does not define us. While I would never wish struggle on anyone, I respect how life’s challenges can develop resilience, compassion, and clarity.

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Becoming a mother expanded my capacity for love and presence in ways I could not have anticipated, and raising my son has been one of the most meaningful parts of my life. My son has taught me so much, and he is such a wise soul. 

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I value depth in relationships. I’m grateful for long-standing friendships built on honesty, respect, and the ability to disagree without conflict or drama. These relationships, along with my partner and family, have shaped how I understand trust, communication, and emotional maturity.

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My partner and I have been together for nearly 12 years and are engaged to be married. Our relationship continues to grow through openness, humour, and ongoing personal work.

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Why I Became a Coach

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I decided to work as a professional coach after experiencing coaching myself in a deeply transformative way. It reminded me of the impact this work can have when someone is willing to engage with it fully.

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Although I had studied these ideas for years, it wasn’t until I worked with my own coaches over an extended period that I experienced real change. That process led me to step more fully into this profession.

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Coaching can shift how we see ourselves and our lives. It can support greater clarity, self-trust, awareness, and alignment with what matters most.

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For me personally, it has supported a more present way of living. Not all the time, but more consistently than before. I find myself slowing down more often, noticing small moments, and appreciating life as it unfolds. 

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It would be an honour to support you in discovering what is possible in your own life.

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What Success Means to Me

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To me, a successful life is not defined from the outside in. It is something we learn to recognize from the inside out, through living in alignment with what feels true, meaningful, and right for us.

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I often find myself reflecting on a simple question:

If you were looking back on your life at the very end, what would you need to see, feel, or know in order to believe it was a life well lived?

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Your answer may be different from mine, and that's exactly the point.

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Discovering that answer for yourself can be one of life's most meaningful journeys.

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​Scope of My Work

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My work is coaching and personal development, not psychotherapy or clinical treatment.

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Life coaching is a forward-focused, collaborative process that supports clarity, self-awareness, and meaningful change. In our work together, I help clients explore what they want in their lives, identify patterns that may be keeping them stuck, and move toward choices and actions that feel more aligned.

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Coaching may include reflection, powerful questioning, goal setting, and accountability. It is designed to support insight, perspective shifts, and practical steps forward.

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Coaching is not a form of therapy and does not involve diagnosing or treating mental health conditions. While emotional experiences may naturally arise during coaching, the focus remains on awareness, choice, and forward movement rather than clinical treatment of the past.

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If deeper therapeutic or medical support is needed, I encourage working with an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.

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My intention is to provide a supportive, grounded space for growth, clarity, and personal development.

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The Serava Manifesto

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I am building a movement to help women come home to themselves.

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I believe much of our suffering comes from disconnection from ourselves, from the constant noise of thought, expectation, and conditioning that pulls us away from our inner truth.

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We learn to live from what we have absorbed, rather than from what we know. We learn to override our inner experience, to question our own knowing, and to move further and further from the quiet intelligence within us.

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Coming home is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering who we have always been beneath the noise of thought and outside conditioning, and learning to trust that inner experience again.

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My work is about creating the space for that remembering. Space to slow down. Space to notice. Space to feel what is already here beneath the noise. Space to reconnect with presence, clarity, and inner strength.

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I believe that when a woman returns to herself, she does not become more than she was. She becomes more herself.

And from that place, everything in her life begins to shift, not through force or striving, but through alignment.

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I believe this is how change happens. Not by fixing who we are, but by no longer abandoning ourselves.

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And I believe that when women come home to themselves, they change how they live, how they love, how they lead, and how they move through the world. In this way, individual remembering becomes collective change.

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This is Serava.