About Alex

My life has been shaped by my experience as an able bodied, biracial (Filipina and Acadian), bisexual, cis gender woman. I grew up in a small town in New Brunswick. I often felt a sense of not quite belonging, so I got really good at fitting in and being who I thought others needed me to be. Though adaptive, this way of being was not sustainable. As I entered young adulthood I felt a deep calling to change the social conditions that stifled myself and others from living authentically. 

I moved to Toronto in 2010 where I started my career facilitating leadership workshops and supporting community lead activism in the areas of: consumer survivors, anti-poverty, youth issues, and anti-globalization.

Within a couple years of this move, I started to struggle with my mental health and athletic injuries that got in the way of healthily maintaining physical activity. It was during this time that I came to recognize how my own unintegrated trauma history was getting in the way of my connection to my inner aliveness. In short, I was living life from a place of fear and scarcity and felt stuck.  

In my early 20’s, I entered a low barrier psychotherapy program as a client and made a commitment to deepen my relationship with myself. Through psychotherapy, mindfulness, somatics, and yoga, I learned to connect inwardly, cultivate greater self-compassion, and began living into my values from a place of greater embodied awareness. I commit to these practices daily, however even now there are days when it feels really hard. A saying that still resonates with me to this day is one that was shared by a close friend during that challenging period in my life:  “You’re doing the heart work.”

This heart work guided me to complete a Master of Social Work with a specialisation in equity and diversity studies. I am also a Registered Yoga Teacher, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner™ and a certified Brainspotting and Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment Therapist. For the past 9 years I have worked within various community based agencies. I have guided psychoeducational workshops, provided case management, worked as a clinician offering individual and group therapy and as a manager and clinical supervisor at a non profit.

Today, I am a Registered Social Worker, psychotherapist, yoga teacher, clinical supervisor and consultant supporting individuals & communities with the process and ongoing practice of loving inwardly and understanding oneself deeply with radical compassion. My practice centres individual and collective resilience in the face of interpersonal, community, and systemic traumas.

I am honoured that you have come here today and offered your time to get to know me. It would be a gift to work alongside you in this journey of cultivating a deeper and more trusting relationship with yourself in all of your complexity.