You know your body better than anyone else.

I start there.

In my work with women and gender diverse people with hypermobility and connective tissue disorders, a few themes come up again and again:

Less pain. Less exhaustion. Less brain fog.

Living in a hypermobile body is exhausting in ways that are hard to explain to people who don't.

The pain. The compensation. The muscles holding what ligaments can't. The sensory system that never quite gets to stand down.

Some of that vigilance is worth keeping. Some of it can soften.

Connection. Mattering. Joy.

Internalized ableism is real. So is the grief of a life you thought you couldn't have.

This work is about tending to the hurt and finding out what is actually possible — not despite this body, but with it.

Who is this for?

You might be newly diagnosed and still finding your footing.

You might have been navigating this for years, alone, long before anyone gave it a name.

You might not have a diagnosis at all — and you don't need one here. I recognize both the value and the limits of what the medical system can offer people like us.

You might be able to move freely right now. You might not be. Either is welcome here. This work is virtual, and we work with what your body needs on any given day.

Whether you are just beginning to understand your body or you have reached the place of wondering if anything can actually change, you are welcome here.

Some limits you should know about my work:

This work is slow and relational. There are no quick fixes, and I won't promise them.

I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a coach, not a psychotherapist. I work alongside mental health support; I don't replace it. Unmanaged mental illness is outside my scope.
Likewise, My physiotherapy background informs this work. I am medically retired and no longer licensed to practice; I do not practice or bill as a physiotherapist.

I work exclusively with women and gender diverse people. This is a personal boundary that comes from my own experience. I hold it without apology.

How it works:

Your body already knows what it needs.

It has been signalling through pain, exhaustion, fog — trying to get through to anyone who would listen.

SE creates the conditions for that signal to finally land somewhere safe.

Heard. Followed. Trusted.

Not a practitioner telling your body what to do. Your body, finally witnessed, finally showing the way.

When that happens — things can shift in ways that talk alone cannot reach.

About Tanya

I am almost fifty years old and just received my EDS diagnosis.

The POTS and MCAS are still the most challenging — and still without a formal diagnosis.

I know what it is to be told everything is normal for decades.

I know what it is to give up on being believed and quietly learn to listen to yourself instead.

That fierce self-reliance — the deep trust that I would find what I needed in the plants and the people around me — kept me going for a long time.

And it still does.

I am a single parent. I am neurodivergent. I am deeply involved in my community — the kind of belonging that happens in Buy Nothing groups and tenant association movie nights.

I thrive. Not despite all of this. Alongside it.

I am also a retired physiotherapist with extensive postgraduate training in sensory processing.

I hold a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner certificate and assist in SE trainings.

But here is what none of that prepared me for:

The first time an SE practitioner listened to my body the way I had learned to listen to it myself.

That changed everything.

If you found your way here, I imagine your story has some of the same shape as mine.

Decades of knowing something was real. Learning to trust yourself because the alternative was too costly.

Still looking for someone who would meet you there.

I would like to be that person.

Working Together

Discovery Call Free. 30 to 60 minutes. A chance to meet, ask questions, and find out if this is the right fit.

Sessions 50 minutes. Virtual. $180 CAD.

Twice or four times a month, depending on what works for you and your body.

Payment is due before each session via credit card through Stripe.

My sliding scale capacity is full.

Commitment I ask for a minimum commitment of 24 sessions.

This work is gentle by design. The nervous system does not move on anyone's timeline but its own. 24 sessions gives it enough time to actually begin.

Cancellation 48 hours notice is required. The full fee applies otherwise. Extenuating circumstances are always a conversation.

If you have spent years knowing something was real that no one else could see —

you are not alone in that.

And you don't have to keep figuring it out alone.