Jacquie identifies as a bi-racial black woman. She was born in Toronto but spent her formative years growing up on the island of St. Lucia. Jacquie has always had a deep passion and curiosity towards what makes us uniquely and ever so beautifully human.  Jacquie is deeply connected to art, philosophy and psychology and has a deep love for her work as a therapist. Jacquie has always felt rooted in the arts and the wisdom of the body.

Jacquie has worked in the field of trauma and the Violence Against Women's Sector in Toronto for over 11years. She began her work in the Caribbean with women and children that had experienced violence. She worked for more than five years as an art therapist implementing and creating service delivery at the YWCA Toronto’s Breakthrough program for women who have experienced violence and abuse. Jacquie has also worked for the past five years at the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic that offers legal, interpretation, and counselling services to those that have experienced violence. In that time she has worked in roles as Therapist/Advocate, Manager of counselling services, and as the Director of counselling services. In her roles, she has led and supported frontline staff, provided supervision and consultation to agencies and provided innovative programming development in trauma work as well as providing education on vicarious trauma and anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices.

Jacquie is currently a faculty member of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute where she teaches a course on anti-racism, anti-oppressive practice and cultural humility in art therapy. She is currently a trainer and with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute as well as a certified SP consultant. Jacquie has a deep passion for social justice work, trauma and recovery and in her private practice works with clients that seek transformation and integration of their traumatic experience into their lives. Jacquie believes that a trauma-informed approach is not just a frame of working collaboratively with teams and clients but is in fact, a way of being in relationship with others.

 Jacquie believes that often, as adults or even as children, play is dismissed or taken away; Jacquie thinks that play is such a vital source of wisdom and helps one to navigate understanding and learning about ourselves and our world in a deeply integrated way. She works with clients who desire something different, and that feel that talk therapy doesn't support them in fully connecting to themselves in an embodied way. She works with those who wish or are already connected to their bodies' wisdom and are curious about incorporating a mind/body approach to their healing. She works with those who may already have or are longing for a deeper connection to their creative wisdom and innovative ways of thinking in navigating life and its impacts.

Jacquie graduated from York University with a Bachelor of Honours in Psychology. She is a Registered Art Therapist and is a graduate of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute, and she is a Certified Advanced Practitioner in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Jacquie works with those who see therapy not just as something that is to be checked off a list and forgotten. Instead, therapy and healing are looked at as a ritual, a practice that is invited into one's life to understand one's transformations and growths better. I work with clients to broaden their awareness that healing also takes place in the in-between sessions and that therapy is a commitment to the self.  Jacquie believes that therapy is sacred. It is a sacred space where so much beauty, wisdom love and pain unfold and is a space that allows an undoing to take place—an unbecoming back to one's self.