Jill has worked in private practice as a Registered Professional Counsellor since 2007 and has been personally and professionally involved with psychedelics since 2014.
Jill is a graduate of Vancouver Island University’s Post-Graduate Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Program. She was a practicum student for this program with Roots to Thrive as a somatic energy worker and she feels honoured to be working with the Roots to Thrive team again.
In 2000, Jill graduated from the Holistic Health Practitioner Program at MacEwan University where she studied a variety of holistic medicine modalities, including energy work. Over the years, Jill has integrated somatic energy practices into her counselling work, allowing her to witness the ways energy can augment therapy and positively impact people’s health and well-being.
Jill lives in Treaty 6 Territory in Edmonton and is of Ukrainian, Polish and French descent. She is grateful for the opportunity to bring her energy work experience into the realm of psychedelic medicine with Roots to Thrive.
The in-person gatherings of the Roots to Thrive program take place of the ancestral and unceded territory of the Snuneymuxw First Nation at the Snuneymuxw Community Wellness Center, and also on the homelands of the Coast Salish, Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw and Nuučaan̓ułʔatḥ (Nuu-chah-nulth) Peoples.
Integral to Roots to Thrive’s approach to healing, re-connection and remembering who we are, are these Guiding Principles. By embodying these principles we intend to honour and give thanks to the Snuneymuxw and all First Nations, the teachings they carry and lands they steward, and to join in working for Truth and Reconciliation.