Enjoyed-endured a 10-year career as a professional football player in the Canadian Football League achieving numerous accolades including Grey Cup Champion and Team Captain. Graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University after a 4-year career as a student-athlete where I garnered 2-time All-Canadian and team MVP honours.Currently immersed in graduate studies at WLU where I am completing a Master’s degree in Spiritual Care & Psychotherapy. Concurrent with this academic training, I am working within the interdisciplinary care team as a Psychotherapy Intern at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science as part of the counselling staff serving the brain injury and vision loss rehabilitation clinics.Co-Founder and Director of movement and mindfulness programming at the Spirit Loft Movement Centre, Toronto’s east-end movement and mindfulness studio and community. Established in 2011.As a personal trainer and teacher in the field of movement and athletic development for over 25 years, I have studied with a diverse set of coaches and teachers. I utilize a rich athletic experience and continuing education trainings as foundational tools to skillfully assess, train and help human beings in the fields of sport-specific performance, movement rehabilitation and optimization for life.As an athlete care and peak performance coach, I have worked hand-in-hand with elite athletes and sports organizations to develop unique mind-body training programs to assist in the development and well-being of athletes in the high-stakes and high-pressure arenas of sports performance. My list of past and current clients includes CFL, NHL, AHL and Olympic athletes.As a mindfulness facilitator and senior Zen student I facilitate the teachings and practices of the mindfulness tradition from a naturalistic, scientific and empirical understanding. As a Master of Theology student I am also engaged in cross-cultural and interfaith study to enrich my understanding of the world’s wisdom traditions and sacred texts.I offer a creative, collaborative, and strength-based approach to client care that recognizes the potential for resilience building, neuroplastic change and positive transformation.
Listed skills include Sports, Football, Sports Marketing, Strength Training, and 25 others.
