Protect Your Energy

Andrea is a Heroic Leadership Coach and catalyst for change, healing and authenticity. Her passion is empowering people to transition from feeling entrapped to living their full potential. Her work has been documented in publications such as the front page of The New York Times and in Newsweek, The Guardian, and The Columbia Journalism Review. She has been interviewed on NPR, CBC Radio and CBC and Global TV.

She has integrated deep personal healing with strong academic training, healing arts training, social justice activism, and work with clients for over 20 years.

Her formal credentials include:

✔️ A Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology (University of Toronto, 2008) - Focus of degree: Healing relational trauma

✔️ Bachelor of Arts Honours in Women's Studies (Mount St. Vincent University, 2003)

✔️ Mediation Certification (York University, 2003) - Six month certification program

✔️ Four levels of Soul Art Guide Certification Training (Bodymapping, Chakras, Spirit Guides, and Shaman, 2017)

✔️ Five year apprenticeship with a Mi’kmaq Shaman (Quebec, Canada, 2005)

✔️ Bio-Energetic Emotional Access Method (BEAM) (2003) - A chakra-based healing method which releases trauma at the cellular level

✔️25 years informal practice of Jin Shin Jyutsu

✔️ A lifetime of mindfulness meditation, beginning with growing up in a Tibetan Buddhist community.