Michelle is a trauma-informed wellness facilitator, speaker, and guide whose work centers on helping people gently reconnect with presence, wholeness, and joy — especially in times of overwhelm, transition, or healing.

Professional Path & Community Roots

Michelle has deep roots in community-based work with women, youth and marginalized populations. She previously worked at Ellevive (formerly Centre Passerelle pour femmes), a francophone women’s centre supporting women and their dependents who are, or who have, experienced violence. There, she was mentored in values-based practice, feminist frameworks, and the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

These early experiences continue to inform her commitment to safer, inclusive, consent-based, and culturally aware wellness spaces.

Lived Experience as a Foundation

In 2014, Michelle spent two months at Homewood Health Centre in Guelph, Ontario, participating in the Post-Traumatic Stress Recovery Program. And in 2018, she spent 3 weeks at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Ontario on the Women’s Unit. During that time — and in the months and years that followed — she learned firsthand how healing often unfolds not through big breakthroughs, but through small, embodied moments of safety, awareness, presence and connection.

Practices such as somatic and mindful awareness, gratitude, gentle movement, and artistic expression became anchors in her own recovery. These experiences now inform how she holds space for others — with respect, consent, and deep understanding of how the nervous system responds to stress and trauma.

What began as a personal practice in 2014 — noticing what was working, naming moments of gratitude, and learning to listen to her body — gradually became the foundation of the work she now shares with others.

Today, Michelle offers trauma-informed wellness coaching that weave together somatic body-based healing, mindful movement, artistic expression, and reflective practices. Her work supports people who feel overwhelmed, disconnected, or “stuck in their head” to reconnect with their bodies in ways that feel accessible, respectful, and sustainable.

Michelle’s writing and facilitation invite readers and participants to slow down, listen inwardly, and Reconnect with Joy — not as a forced positivity, but as a quiet, grounding presence that can coexist with grief, change, and uncertainty.

This work is offered as supportive wellness education, rooted in trauma-informed, body-based mindfulness practices and lived experience. It is not a substitute for clinical or medical care.