Imperfect, Present & Ready
A New Chapter in Healing (for both of us)
Hi. I'm Coco.
That name started with my little brother — a nickname that stuck — and became the name my dad called me right up until the end of his life. When it came time to name this practice, it was the most honest thing I could put on the door.
I'm a Registered Nurse (RN) and Registered Acupuncturist (R.Ac) based in Ontario. I have spent over 15 years in clinical nursing — palliative care, wound care, community health, patient education — and that training is never really gone, even when nursing did.
The Pivot
In 2021, a personal decision meant stepping away from a career I had built my whole identity around. I won't pretend that was easy. I cried a lot. I felt lost. I tried to claw back what I thought I was losing — and then, slowly, I stopped clawing and started listening.
That's when I went deep into Traditional Chinese Medicine. Not because I was a natural believer — I was actually a skeptic — but because what I found there confirmed something I had already learned through years of nursing, and through sitting with people at the very end of their lives:
The body knows how to heal itself when given the right support and the right partner.
How I Work
I don't heal you. I create the conditions for you to heal yourself.
That's not a humble disclaimer — it's the foundation of how I practice. Through conversation, education, and evidence-informed TCM therapies, my role is to help you understand what's happening in your body and put real tools in your hands.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a 2,000+ year old system with far more in it than needles. Tui Na, Dao Yin, Zen Shiatsu, food therapy, cupping, gua sha, moxibustion — I use all of it. More importantly, I teach it. Because an informed person makes better health decisions than a passive patient. Always.
I'm also a homeschooling mom of three. Which means I understand limited time, real-life complexity, and the need for approaches that work in actual family life — not just ideal conditions.
Who I'm Here For
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Parents who want to understand their children's bodies, not just manage their symptoms
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Adults navigating burnout, chronic stress, or a sense that something is off that nobody has quite named yet
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Skeptics — especially skeptics. I started there too, and I think that makes me a better practitioner
Whether you're coming in for acupuncture or joining one of my skills-based education programs, the goal is always the same: you leave knowing more than when you arrived.
Ready to Start?
If something in here felt familiar — the search, the skepticism, the sense that there has to be a better way — you're in the right place.