06/28/2024
Hustle Heal Motivate Psychotherapy
HHM was inspired from my personal journey, a lifetime of existing in survival. My struggle through life’s tough stuff has had a profound impact on me shaping the person I am today, allowing me to navigate through life’s challenges in unique ways. This birthed my HUSTLE, my desire to HEAL, to shift and disrupt my narrative that was created for me, I was MOTIVATEd to become everything I was told I couldn’t.
After many years of being street involved, witnessing my community being targeted by police, impacted by social policy and decimated by overdose deaths, I was sponsored to enter university as a mature student. Access to academia allowed me to break generational barriers while developing new ways to create change for my community. A life defining moment at 8 months pregnant, I earned a B.A. graduating on the Honour List.
Since then I have dedicated my efforts to working with people from a life that I intimately knew by providing a harm reduction approach to crisis support, frontline counseling and advocacy for some of the most oppressed and marginalized populations including street based s*x workers, homeless populations, people who use drugs, and prisoners.
I have been awarded for my ongoing efforts to challenge harmful drug policies and anti-s*x work laws and for my activism for s*x workers’ and drug users’ rights. In 2016, I received a Master’s in Public Policy, Admin and Law where I completed my thesis Remembering Bedford, on the impacts of the criminalization s*x work. This research was published in the international journal S*x Work and has been referenced in MacLean’s, NOW magazine, and legal hearings confrounting criminalization.
