Mika

As a holistic counsellor, I help clients connect with their inner healing intelligence and realize a life in alignment with their deepest dreams. As a yoga instructor, I center the body’s capacity to metabolize trauma into insight through practices that invoke presence. My embodied approach is informed by decades of experience supporting transformation through ceremonial work with sacred plants, while my training as a psilocybin facilitator balances this shamanic experience with the science of psychedelic medicine. I continue to advance my skills and knowledge through PhD studies in Depth Psychology, Ecopsychology and Arts-based and Somatic Therapies.

These interdisciplinary pathways towards actualization meet in the synthesis of my work: a sanctuary for transformation in which trauma-informed containers for consiousness expansion are embedded in a mandala of integrative modalities. In one-on-one sessions, mentorship, ceremonies and wilderness-based initiatory encounters, clients are supported to connect with their innermost heart’s longings and unveil their authentic soul callings. Attuning to the wisdom within us, it becomes easier to access a sense of belonging in nature and community, and activate our unique potential for service and stewardship.

I have been brought to this offering by my own repeated descents into grief and loss, alchemical dissolution of beliefs and attachments, and reckoning with ancestral wounds—and the inner work never ends. This journey through the shadows and cracks in myself and in my world has taught me more than any book every could, and I would not have made it without the elders who had my back and blessed my path. As I step into my own training for elderhood, I root my offering in gratitude for the teachers and allies who have helped me transform despair into empowerment and bring forth the gift that’s mine to give. All I do now is inspired by my longing to help us emerge as a species from a world haunted by our pain, into a world illuminated by our love.

I am committed to reciprocity with the wisdom-keepers who tend earth-based lineages, and solidarity with all movements for indigenous sovereignty. A deep bow of respect to the Coast Salish tribes who are the original stewards of the land I call home. This work is gender-identity and poly-affirming, and aligned with decolonial, anti-racist, feminist and neuro-queer theory.

I speak English and Spanish and offer all services at a sliding scale for people with marginalized identities and limited resources.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • PhD in East-West Psychology (currently enrolled)
    California Institute of Integral Studies

  • MA in East-West Psychology (2025)
    California Institute of Integral Studies

  • Psilocybin Facilitator Certificate (2023)
    Inner Trek

  • Yoga Instructor Certificate (2015)
    8 Limbs Yoga Centers

  • Digital Design Diploma (2005)
    Vancouver Film School

  • Massage Practitioner Certification (2001)
    Esalen Institute Massage Certification Program

  • Ida Rolf Institute, Rolfing Trainings 1 & 2 (2001)

  • BA in Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies (1999)
    Naropa University