A Little Bit About Me.

We All Start Somewhere.

FIRST BELIEF

All humans can heal.

SECOND BELIEF

Every person has intrinsic value.

THIRD BELIEF

We all have a purpose and calling in our lives.

I'M MARIE.

I'm Québécois Métis which means I am from the French province in Canada with a native Canadian heritage. I now live in Scotland in a beautiful area close to Loch Lomand across from a national park; it even has a castle which is very Scottish.

I draw strength from a rich multicultural heritage that has shaped my unique perspective on healing and resilience.

Three foundational concepts profoundly influence both my personal journey and my approach to helping others transform their lives. The first is Joie de Vivre—that beautiful French philosophy of finding genuine joy in life's simple pleasures. This isn't about forced positivity, but about rediscovering your natural capacity for spontaneous delight in everyday moments like morning coffee or conversations with loved ones.

I also embrace the Hebrew concept of Shalom—not merely the absence of conflict, but complete wholeness and integration across every dimension of being. This perfectly captures what EIT aims to achieve: not just managing symptoms, but restoring the profound peace that comes when your mind, body, and spirit function in harmony.

Finally, I'm inspired by the Finnish concept of Sisu—that extraordinary inner resilience that enables someone to persist through seemingly impossible adversity and emerge stronger. Having survived severe childhood trauma with an ACE score of 8, I understand intimately how Sisu can carry you through the darkest valleys toward complete transformation.

These three principles converge in my work: helping people rediscover their Joie de Vivre through achieving genuine Shalom by cultivating the Sisu needed for neurobiological transformation. Because when you understand that complete healing is possible, you find the strength to persist until you experience it yourself.

THIS IS MY STORY.

I hope you find it real, yet profound. :)

MY APPROACH

Finding Joy in the Simple Moments

This photo captures everything I believe about true emotional wellness. It might seem like just a fun family moment, but to me, it represents what's possible when your brain is working in harmony—pure, spontaneous joy shared with the people you love.

We weren't on some exotic vacation or special occasion. This was just us at our local mall, but we were fully present, completely connected, and radiating genuine happiness together. No anxiety clouding the moment, no depression weighing us down, no pressure to be anywhere else—just the beautiful evidence of integrated brains sharing authentic joy.

This is what I help people rediscover - their "joie de vivre" (see above for an explanation of the term.) When your nervous system is regulated and your emotions are integrated, these moments of pure delight become natural again. Psychology shows us that these experiences create those lovely little dopamine rewards that build a life founded on genuine happiness.

What makes Emotional Integrative Therapy different is that I take the fascinating world of neuropsychology and make it work in your everyday life. It's not about managing symptoms in a therapist's office—it's about rewiring your brain so you can experience this kind of spontaneous joy with your morning coffee, a conversation with a friend, or yes, even a trip to the mall.

I wish this for you: to live free from the patterns that steal your joy and to rediscover your own beautiful joie de vivre.

Dr. Marie

TESTIMONIALS.

Let Others Inspire You.

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

Proverb

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why I Created This Revolutionary Approach to Anxiety and Depression

For years, I watched brilliant, capable clients struggle with traditional therapy approaches that taught them to "manage" their symptoms indefinitely. Despite countless sessions, medications, and every coping strategy in the book, they remained trapped in cycles of anxiety and depression—getting temporary relief but never experiencing true freedom.

As a psychologist, this broke my heart. I knew there had to be a better way.

Then I discovered something that changed everything.

As someone who survived severe childhood trauma with an ACE score of 8 out of 10, I knew firsthand what it felt like to be imprisoned by anxiety. At 19, I realized I was on a dangerous emotional path—the pressure felt unbearable and I knew I needed to make a drastic change or I might not survive.

But through my own transformation—going from presenting with severe trauma symptoms to the emotional stability of someone with an ACE score of just 1—I uncovered the missing piece that traditional approaches were completely overlooking.

I had somehow gotten myself out of the cycle, but I needed to understand exactly why and how. This launched me into years of additional research and study, pursuing neuropsychology and advanced brain science to decode what had actually happened in my transformation.

What I discovered shocked me: The problem wasn't in people's minds. It was in their nervous systems with the key being in the brain stem.

Your body gets stuck in fight-or-flight mode, constantly scanning for threats even when you're perfectly safe. No amount of talking or thinking can override this when your brainstem believes you're in danger.

That's why I developed Emotional Integrative Therapy (EIT)—the first complete system that addresses anxiety and depression at their neurobiological roots, not just their symptoms.