A nurse who has carried what you carry
This work did not begin in a wellness studio; it began at the bedside. Within healthcare systems where relentless demands, moral distress, and chronic scarcity quietly shape the lives of those who care for others, it emerged from the tension between the deep honor of caring and the exhaustion that follows when care is extracted at the cost of well-being and empowerment. Moreover, those who offer care are neither supported with spaces for reflection nor witnessed without judgment.
Rooted in Nursing and Spiritual Care.
Carrie’s spiritual care practice is grounded in decades of direct clinical nursing work — the kind of work that leaves a mark on the body, spirit, and nervous system. With more than twenty years in emergency, intensive care, and urgent care settings, she understands occupational depletion from the inside. Her journey toward hope and restoration has not been linear. It required a deep reckoning with trauma, moral injury, grief, and the systemic dynamics within healthcare that perpetuate harm while often asking caregivers to endure in silence.
That encounter with depletion became the foundation of a five-year educational and spiritual formation journey. Carrie completed a Master of Public and Pastoral Leadership with a Specialization in Spiritual Care, alongside Clinical Psychospiritual Education (CPE) training with the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care. Much of her academic and formation work focused on Indigenous teachings, interfaith studies, non-duality, trauma-informed spiritual care, and the relational dimensions of healing, presence, and empowerment.
Transformative Care Collaborative emerged from that lived and learned experience — not as a wellness brand, but as a reflective, relational, and restorative space for healthcare workers and communities navigating the realities of care. It was imagined by someone who has sat where patients, families, and caregivers sit, and who understands the profound difference between being heard and being managed.