Hey, I’m Cait

I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Certified Mental Performance Consultant and concussion advocate.

I work to bridge the gap between lived experience and clinical expertise to help people find their way back to themselves after concussion.

I believe concussion recovery is one of the most isolating and misunderstood experiences a person can go through… ‍

because the mental and emotional factors of recovery are rarely part of the conversation.

I know this because I lived it.

In 2020, a few days before Christmas, I was in a car accident that changed everything. Despite reporting anxiety, nausea, and ringing in my ears while at the hospital, my concussion went undiagnosed for a week. I had no idea was happening in my brain and body. What followed was five years of treatment, hard-won clarity, and a slow, nonlinear path toward a life I genuinely love.

This experience became the foundation of everything I do.

Learn about recovery

my concussion experience

life before

I was doing everything “right”. I just didn't know I was running from myself.

Adventurous, driven, always moving. I had built a full, exciting life. What I didn't realize was how much of that momentum was keeping me from something deeper.

the pit

A concussion doesn't just take your capacity. It impacts your identity and robs your of the distraction you ever used to feel okay.

Symptoms are relentless but what broke me open wasn't the pain. It was being forced to face everything I had never sat still long enough to feel. Daily breaking points. my identity fracturing under the weight of it. A self I no longer recognized.

the research

The system isn't built for this. I found that in the data, and I had already lived it.

My thesis on concussion recovery made it undeniable. Standard therapeutic approaches were missing the mark. The mental health toll of concussion was significant, consistently underestimated, and almost never addressed.

the possibilities

I'm not who I was before the accident. butI'm more myself than I have ever been.

Recovery wasn't a return. It was an arrival. The life I have now is more aligned, more fulfilling, and genuinely mine than anything I could have built at the pace I was moving before. That's what I know is possible for you.

some fun facts about me!

  • Skating has always felt more natural to me than walking. Hockey is home.

  • I grew up in Toronto but I've been a west coast girl for ten years. Squamish is home now, and I'm grateful for that every single day.

  • I jump in water. Cold, warm, ocean, lake. It doesn't matter. Nothing resets my nervous system faster or more reliably!

  • Despite having "energizer bunny" as a childhood nickname, I'm actually quite introverted. I recharge alone, usually somewhere outside.

  • Cows and jellyfish.

  • A pilot. Though math and I have a complicated relationship, so here we are.

  • Travelling. I've lived in three countries and visited 27 (and counting)!

  • Border Collie, without a doubt.

  • Think by Aretha Franklin. Every time.

  • Although I love a good meal, cooking is not my forte