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Choose your pricing plan

  • 10 session pack

    500$
    10 weekly or bi-weekly play-group sessions with follow-up notes to support your child .
    Valid for 3 months
    • Play Groups Ages Gr. K - 2

  • 8-session pack

    250$
    Join 2 - 3 other children for play in a supported environment where children apply and practice strategies to navigate anxiety. Weekly for 8 weeks.
    Valid for 3 months
    • Play Group Gr 3 - 5

About

I'm Jennifer.

For a long time, I lived life with one eye on the exit.

Anxiety had a firm grip on me. I lived with generalized anxiety disorder, panic attacks, and depression, and I became very skilled at appearing “fine” while quietly organizing my life around fear, self-protection, and not rocking the boat. I was careful. I was responsible. I was exhausted.

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And I was living small.

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Over time—and through a lot of practice, courage, setbacks, humour, and learning—I began to change the way I thought about fear, challenges, and myself. I stopped waiting for confidence to magically arrive and started stepping forward with fear in the room. I learned how to work with my nervous system instead of fighting it. I learned that anxiety doesn’t get to be the boss—it gets to be information.

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As my thinking shifted, so did my life.

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Fear no longer runs the show. Life feels bigger, richer, and far more exciting. I see possibility where I once saw danger. I take risks I never thought I would. I laugh more. I try things. I fail sometimes—and I no longer see that as proof that something is wrong with me.

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That transformation is what fuels my work today.

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I’m a long-time public school teacher, certified life coach, and lifelong encourager of brave humans—especially children and the adults who love them. My heart is to help parents support anxious kids early, so fear doesn’t quietly shrink their lives the way it once shrank mine. Children don’t need to be “fixed.” They need tools, language, safety, and adults who are willing to model courage, flexibility, and self-kindness.

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I believe anxiety doesn’t mean something is broken—it means something is trying to protect us. When children learn how to understand that from a young age, they grow up believing the world is a place of possibility, not something to hide from. They learn they are capable. They learn they can try. They learn they are allowed to dream—without compromise.

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And as I’ve stepped into this fuller, braver life, something else has happened too: my faith has come alive in ways I never expected. Where fear once dominated my inner world, hope now shows up everywhere. I genuinely see it around every corner.

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If you’re a parent who wants your child to grow up hopeful, resilient, and willing to take risks—or if you’re quietly longing for that kind of life yourself—you’re in the right place.

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We don’t need perfection.
We just need a willingness to try.

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And I’d be honoured to walk that path with you.

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