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 received training as a Death Doula and help people release the fear of death. I now host Death Cafés, which are free community events where people get together, talk about death, and eat cake!

I created The Aquarian Academy to be a home for my consultation services for organizations who want to implement effective mental health & wellbeing strategies for their leadership teams and staff at large to create environments that are healing, burnout-proof, and supportive of the evolution and growth of their teams. I provide both educational and experiential workshops, talks and programs for organizations which give people permission to assess their wellbeing, where they can improve, and discover easy-to-use tools which improve mental health in the workplace.

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