So glad you’re here!

Hi, I’m Shari.

I’m a somatic therapist, registered social worker, educator, and nervous system practitioner supporting high-functioning, overwhelmed, and neurodivergent women who are exhausted from constantly holding it all together.

Many of the women I work with are deeply self-aware. They’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, gone to therapy, and intellectually understand their patterns — yet still find themselves stuck in cycles of overthinking, burnout, perfectionism, shutdown, people-pleasing, or nervous system overwhelm.

On the outside, they often appear capable, successful, caring, and highly functional.

Inside, they feel exhausted.

Their minds rarely slow down. Rest feels difficult. Their nervous systems are constantly bracing, masking, performing, or pushing through.

My work is rooted in the understanding that healing doesn’t happen through insight alone.

It happens when the body finally experiences enough safety to stop surviving all the time.

My Approach

My approach blends:

• somatic therapy

• nervous system regulation work

• Brainspotting

• Deep Brain Reorienting

• polyvagal-informed practice

• compassion-focused approaches

• neuroaffirming support

I help clients better understand the connection between their nervous systems, emotions, thought patterns, body responses, trauma histories, and coping strategies — not from a place of shame or “fixing,” but from a place of curiosity, compassion, and sustainable change.

Together, we work toward:

• feeling more regulated and grounded

• reducing overwhelm and chronic stress

• reconnecting with the body

• softening shame and self-criticism

• creating healthier boundaries

• moving out of survival mode

• building greater self-trust

• finding ways of living that actually feel sustainable

Who I Work With

I primarily support women navigating experiences such as:

• high-functioning ADHD and neurodivergence

• burnout and nervous system exhaustion

• chronic overthinking

• perfectionism and people-pleasing

• trauma and chronic stress

• emotional overwhelm

• masking and performance-based coping

• cycles of productivity and collapse

• difficulty slowing down or resting

• disconnection from self, body, or needs

Many of my clients have spent years feeling like they are “too much,” “not enough,” or somehow failing at life despite trying incredibly hard.

My goal is to create a space where you no longer have to perform your way into worthiness.

A More Human Way Forward

I believe healing is not about becoming perfectly regulated, endlessly productive, or emotionally “fixed.”

It’s about building a relationship with yourself that feels safer, gentler, more connected, and more sustainable.

A relationship where your body is no longer treated like the enemy.

A relationship where you don’t have to earn rest.

A relationship where you can begin to move through life with more capacity, authenticity, and self-trust.

Professional Background

In addition to private practice, I have worked as a counsellor, educator, and clinical leader supporting individuals navigating mental health challenges, trauma, burnout, life transitions, and nervous system dysregulation, as well as having a career spanning almost 20 years in the k-12 education system.

My background includes social work, counselling, post-secondary teaching, and specialized training in somatic and brain-based approaches to healing.

If you’ve spent years trying to think your way into feeling better, while your body continues to feel overwhelmed, shut down, anxious, or exhausted — you’re not alone. You may be highly capable, deeply self-aware, and still struggling to feel safe, rested, connected, or fully like yourself. Healing isn’t about becoming a different person. It’s about understanding your brain and body with more compassion, creating greater safety within yourself, and finding more sustainable ways of living, relating, resting, and being. You don’t have to keep forcing your way through. I’d be honoured to support you in that process.