Kia Aileen

and I see you. I see you because I was you. I felt so stuck and overwhelmed. With a background in legal and corporate careers that span more than 25 years, I understand, all too well, about the pressures that can accumulate when trying to balance work, family and life. Following a bout of severe anxiety, I decided to focus on my own healing and retrained in numerous holistic and spiritual therapies while working full time. It was the path I had been looking for and I managed to ease some of that anxiety and pressure – for a while. The second time the anxiety returned, I was able to go within and ask – “What’s really going on here?” I understood that my body was reflecting what my soul wanted. I was suffocating under the pressure of having the perfect career, being the perfect wife and step-mother, being the perfect daughter. And I didn’t feel I was getting any of it right. So I took the leap. I chose to follow my heart and trust the pull to help others discover who they really were and what they truly wanted. In 2015, I left my job and started my own counselling and coaching practice and I haven’t looked back since.