My Background
Based in Montreal I am born of a Portuguese father and an Egyptian mother in a multicultural setting that very early on taught me the value of difference. With a natural inclination for the arts, for music, and for exploring existential questions of meaning I have developed my approach to accompaniment that embraces the complexity of our human experience of, love, loss, life and death. I consider grief, death and aging not as problems to fix, but as rich and profound experiences that can be navigated in unique and creative ways.
Training and Approach
​I am trained as a spiritual care counselor to accompany and support people through grief, illness and life transitions in an open, secular and culturally safe. I am also certified in naturotherapy as a human relations therapist to offer grief support interventions that are covered by insurance. I am involved as a researcher to continue to advance my practice and contribute to the field with a focus on secular spirituality and accompaniment in my doctoral work. I am fully bilingual as well (eng/fr).
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B.A. - Theological Studies
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M.A. - Spirituality in Palliative Care
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Graduate Certificate - Spiritual Care Accompaniment
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PhD - Currently in progress​
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10 years working in public healthcare : spiritual care, ethics, patient education/empowerment, end-of-life care
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Member of CASC association as Spiritual Care Practitioner
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Member of RITMA association as Certified Human Relations Therapist
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Funeral Celebrant in the Greater Montreal Area
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Part-time lecturer at Concordia University teaching Spirituality and Aging
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Experience in clinical supervision for spiritual care at Universite de Montreal
My approach is integrative and holistic
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It is based in Psychodynamic, Humanistic (gestalt and existential) and Somatic (mindfulness and movement meditation) therapies.
I draw inspiration from ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), trauma-informed approaches as well as from ritual work.