Hayley is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor licensed through the Association Of Cooperative Counselling Therapist (ACCT)
“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half as interesting. ”
About Me:
After undergoing years of traditional ‘talk therapy’ I was very aware of my patterns on an intellectual level, but had a deep curiosity about how to take things farther…
This lead me to study somatic therapy, play therapy, and clown (that’s right, I actually went to clown school) I realized what they all have in common is the cultivation of authentic presence, expression, and strengthening of intuition.
The clown tradition I studied comes from beloved Canadian clown, Richard Pochinko. He had the following dream:
“Once Richard spoke in his sleep of being in a spaceship along with others, some that we knew, some we had yet to meet. As we flew over the earth we saw people. At first he thought we were waving. As we came closer, he gasped, “No, they’re trying to get out, they’re all inside glass jars struggling to get out. Our mission is to release them, to break down the glass and let them free.”
This became Richard’s work: helping people to release themselves. He freed us to face our essential uniqueness and encouraged us to love and celebrate it. He called it the clown.”
When I read this, I felt understood in a way I never had, and this is ultimately what my own journey has been about - releasing myself from the cages of my personal and collective experience, and accepting myself fully.
When we can show up as ourselves and experience being met there, the more fulfilled we are. From here, more creativity and brilliance flows, and all that we are capable of can be born into the world. Supporting people on their own journey in ‘releasing’ themselves is one of the greatest acts of service I can provide.
“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”