Integrative Therapeutic Practitioner

Trauma-informed & neuroscience-based support for nervous system flexibility, resilience and embodied healing

Guiding individuals & healthcare providers navigating chronic stress, illness, trauma and burnout to move out of survival mode and into greater presence, capacity and connection.

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Trusted by healthcare organizations, patient groups and care teams:

When life becomes overwhelming—through stress, illness, trauma, burnout, or prolonged caregiving—it’s common to feel disconnected from your body.

You may feel tense, numb, exhausted, stuck in your head, or like your nervous system is always bracing for what’s next… even if you’ve already tried therapy, medical care, and every self-care or “self-optimization” practice you can find.

Maybe you’re functioning on the outside, but internally you feel like you’re living in survival mode:
always alert, always managing, always pushing—until you crash.

If this sounds familiar, you’re not broken.

You’re responding exactly as a nervous system shaped by experience would.

This work begins with a simple truth:

Your body is not the problem. It’s where healing begins.

Healing isn’t about forcing calm or trying to think your way out of suffering.

It’s about expanding your nervous system’s capacity to safely feel, process, and respond—often described clinically as expanding the window of tolerance. The goal is not “perfect regulation,” but greater flexibility, resilience, and choice.

Not so you can tolerate more of the same—
but so you can return to presence, reconnect with what matters, and begin living from alignment instead of protection.

This is not about fixing yourself.
It’s about coming home to yourself.

I offer trauma-informed, embodied practices grounded in modern neuroscience and integrative healing traditions to support:

  • Nervous system flexibility and expanded capacity

  • Recovery from burnout and chronic stress

  • Trauma healing and emotional integration

  • Chronic illness support and mind-body reconnection

  • Resilience through uncertainty, change, and life transitions

  • Deeper self-trust, meaning, and post-traumatic growth

This work is gentle, practical and deeply personalized—supporting meaningful change without overwhelming your system.

Ways to Work Together

  • If you feel disconnected from your body, overwhelmed by stress, or stuck in patterns you can’t seem to outthink, this work offers a grounded path back to internal safety, steadiness, and self-trust.

    Whether you live with chronic illness, anxiety, trauma history, medical trauma, burnout, or persistent stress that never seems to let up—this is a space to rebuild capacity from the inside out.

  • If you support others through trauma, chronic illness, pain, stress, and complex health conditions, I offer nervous system-informed tools that strengthen clinical care, support co-regulation, and reduce burnout.

    This work bridges the gap between clinical understanding and embodied lived experience—bringing practical nervous system literacy into real-world care settings.

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  • "Thank you for your participation speaking at our IBD conference. You set a perfect tone, got everyone back to thinking about patients and they loved it! You kicked the whole day off perfectly."

    —Mary Sanner, Fusion MD Medical Science Network

  • "Montana is a very warm, compassionate wellness coach that truly cares about your wellbeing and provides an affordable and structured format to help you find solutions to any issues negatively impacting your mental and physical health. I believe that working with Montana over 6 weeks to find solutions and break them down into small achievable goals helped increase my self confidence and belief in myself to find a new group of friends where I live that I can go to for support and feel connected to the community. Thank you, Montana, for your help and support during this difficult time of my life to help me find myself and my new tribe!"

    —Nancy Lee

  • "Thank you Montana! I received lots of feedback from the attendees about how much they learned and how great a speaker you were. Looking forward to hearing you present again."

    Dr. Vivian Huang, Mount Sinai Hospital

  • "We loved having you as part of our Oncology Caregiver Day! We appreciate your participation in the event and the warm & restorative dimension you added to the day"

    —Fiona Penny & David Brownstone, SickKids

  • “Montana’s biweekly yoga classes give our team a necessary moment to reflect and wind down from their busy work days. Her classes are welcoming, encouraging, and accessible to all. Thank you Montana for getting us out of our desks and giving us a moment to stretch, strengthen, and practice mindfulness.”

    —Managing Matters Inc.

  • "I just wanted to send a quick note to thank you again for starting off my wedding day with such a wonderful yoga class. I loved your focus on the heart during the flow, and about how the heart needs strength and balance. It was so wonderful looking out into the trees as the sun peeked behind them, and even though it was early, it really helped me get into the right headspace for the day! Thank you for being a part of my most special day. I would tell someone who is considering incorporating a yoga/meditation practice into their celebration or transition that it really helps center the mind, body, and spirit, and helps prepare one for entering this milestone."

    —Amanda Freedman

  • “Montana’s yoga classes are thoughtful, engaging, and truly one-of-a-kind. Her virtual yoga class for myself and 8 friends made my birthday special, fun, and easy to plan. I highly recommended Montana for any of your virtual or in-person yoga needs!”

    —Astrid Marschall

  • "I listened to your podcast interview and it was amazing! The interview really made all my feelings around this experience completely validated so thank you! The podcast made me feel completely understood in my feelings... I am thankful that there are other people who feel exactly the same and can relate to my experience so thank you for much!"

    —S. L.

  • "I recently watched your Youtube video, Healing from Within: Somatic Embodiment in Cancer Care, I responded deeply to your distinction between 'cured' and 'healed', as it was the first time to hear this truth verbalized about cancer care and the treatments involved. I could feel your integrity around your own experience with cancer care and found it most impressive and positive that you have harnessed your situation and are now able to educate and support others."

    —L. M.

  • "Thank you so much for your thought-provoking and valuable contributions, Montana! I’ve seen so far looks outstandingly important. So thrilled with our work together!"

    Dr. Ariel Lefkowitz, Sunnybrook Hospital

HomeBody: Coming Home to Your Body

An 8-week nervous system program for regulation, resilience and reconnection.

HomeBody is a guided group program designed to help you move out of survival mode and into a deeper sense of internal safety and steadiness—through practices that support nervous system flexibility, emotional integration, and embodied trust.

Because healing isn’t about becoming someone new.

It’s about returning to yourself at a pace your body can sustain.

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Many people have tried approaches that focus only on mindset or symptom management.

But when the nervous system has been shaped by trauma, chronic stress, or illness, healing often requires something deeper: a safe relationship with the body.

This work supports real transformation by building the internal capacity to feel, process, and respond without forcing, bypassing or overwhelming what your system is holding.

You don’t need to push harder.
You don’t need to fix yourself.
And you don’t need to do this alone.

If you’re ready to reconnect with your body, expand your capacity, and move forward with support, clarity, and care, I’d be honoured to walk with you.