Before building careers, I helped rebuild lives.
I did not become a counsellor because it felt like a calling. I became one because I knew what it felt like to be lost. I had sat in counsellors' offices myself and walked out feeling worse than when I walked in. That stuck with me.
I worked with young athletes dealing with anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of failure — and youth navigating substance use and identity. That work showed me what real resilience looks like.
Leaving counselling was not a failure. It was self-respect. What I learned in those rooms still guides me today — in every conversation, every relationship, every placement.
Find ResourcesRegistered Therapeutic Counsellor
Built BMR Counselling from lived experience, not a business plan.
Young Athletes & Youth
Worked with athletes and youth navigating anxiety, substance use, and identity.
What I Brought Forward
Compassion. Honesty. Resilience. Empathy as a default — not a technique.
BMR Counselling & Consulting
Founded in 2016. Built on the belief that hard times do not have to be the end of the story.
The goal was simple — share what I went through honestly enough that someone else might feel less alone in what they are going through. Project Awareness exists because a group of us decided our stories were worth telling out loud. That decision has not changed.
Find ResourcesAuDHD. Recovered. Former counsellor.
Built different on purpose.
Most recruiters source resumes. I read people. A lawyer burning out inside. A candidate who undersells because they have spent years masking. A firm dynamic that looks fine on paper but will not hold. I catch these things before they become expensive mistakes — because I have lived most of them myself.
That is not a skill set. It is a wiring.
The legal profession has a mental health problem.
Lawyers are among the highest-risk professions in Canada for burnout, depression, and addiction.
I have been through the fire — addiction, recovery, a late diagnosis that explained decades of struggle. I know what it is to perform fine while everything inside is falling apart. That is not a talking point. It is the reason I do this work the way I do.
If you need someone who actually gets it — not just the legal market, but the human cost of it — that is exactly who I am.
Living in The Chaos
What it actually feels like to live in a brain wired differently.
Running Blind in a World Built for Others
Not in a dramatic way. In the quiet, persistent way that nobody notices because you have gotten good at functioning while lost. You show up. You perform. You hit your marks. And underneath all of it you have no idea why nothing feels like it fits. That is not a character flaw. That is what it feels like to be undiagnosed in a world built for a different kind of brain.
Everything. All at Once.
Everything is coming in at once. The noise of the room. The weight of a look. The task you have been avoiding for three days that is now eating everything else. You are not overwhelmed by one thing. You are overwhelmed by all of it at the same time, all the time, with no filter and no off switch.
Permission to Stop Pretending
The diagnosis did not fix anything. It named everything. And naming it — after decades of being told you were too much, too sensitive, too distracted — changes something fundamental. You stop fighting yourself. You start building around how you actually work instead of trying to force yourself into a shape that was never yours.
Wired Differently. Living Fully.
Not because the world got easier. Because I stopped trying to play by rules that were never written for me. I work the way my brain works. I rest the way my nervous system needs. I show up as myself — fully, without apology. For most of my life I did not think it was possible. It is.
"Let's have an honest conversation."
I work with lawyers planning their next move and with the firms and general counsels who need to find the right one.
