I am so honoured to be apart of this amazing team of women! I have only been a part of the Shifra family for a short time and I was given the opportunity through a long time friend to cover her maternity leave. With 10 years of administration background in health and wellness, I jumped at the opportunity. I am so grateful for the experiences I’ve had here, the people I have been able to meet and the baby snuggles at the front desk! Having grown up in Cochrane myself, I am proud to be part of this team of women who pour their hearts into the community.

I have always loved babies. When I was a baby I loved babies! High school biology, where I learned more about the amazing the process of how they are created, grown and birthed, only increased my fascination. I believe that nearly every woman is given an incredibly special gift of being able to create life within them and it is beautiful, empowering and miraculous. I knew midwifery was something I was meant to be a part of, but after many attempts at applying for a program and not succeeding I decided that maybe it just wasn't in the plan for me, but the passion never left me.

I started training as a doula when I was 21 but I didn't know anyone having babies so I moved onto a completely different career route and became a land administrator for 7 years. When a close friend asked me to attend her birth in 2012, I was thrilled to support her. It reignited a fire within me and I again knew I was meant to follow this path. I became a certified birth doula a year later, left the oil industry and tried to make a go of being a full time doula. In this time I also got married and became a stepmom to 2 children and the balance was difficult. Again I had to take a step back.

Although passionate, I'd never quite figured out the direction I was meant to take until I became a part of the Shifra team. The growth and change in the clinic has been amazing to witness and has given me the opportunity to gain skills not only in a management role but I’ve also learned so much from the incredible women who I am honoured to work with. I have since had a beautiful daughter of my own under the care of the midwives and experienced the wonderful work that they do first hand. I couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this fabulous team and support women in their most amazing, miraculous journey of becoming mothers and beyond.

I am over the moon excited to be joining the Shifra Family and the incredible team of women here at the centre for wellness. I started my journey here with the Shifra Family Team in November 2020. I was drawn to the Shifra vision and energy recognizing a wholesome experience and approach to health and wellness. My background has always been focused on helping people from a young age, with volunteer work and through my career, so this was a wonderful and natural fit. I attended University in BC where I received my Bachelors degree in Psychology. My background has always played a part in my approach to life and my career. I am also a fond believer in all things meant to happen will come together as they are meant to. Joining the Shifra family when I did, has truly brought that home for me.

I grew up in Coquitlam, BC where I called home for most of my life. I moved to Calgary in 2013 but made the happiest of moves in 2017 when I moved to Cochrane. Cochrane has truly become my home and where I developed true roots and attachments and built my home. It is even more exciting I now get to play a bigger role in our little community by being a part of the Shifra Family. I am a Mama Bear, as he still calls me, to my talented and dapper young man of a son, and a stepmom to my two intelligent and beautiful girls. It is in Cochrane where we blended our Fam-Jam of 5 and grew our new little blended family together. My family has always been my inspiration, my reason. I am greatly looking forward to greeting and meeting everyone as they walk through the door. My goal is to give you that first positive and happy dose of good energy when you come in for your appointment and set those "happy vibes" tones to your day. It is an incredible feeling to be a part of a team of women who strive to serve our clients through exceptional care, connection, healing, encouragement, compassion and support. I look forward to being a small part of your health and wellness journey.

I have been with the practice since 2010, I started as a client and then quickly realized that all I wanted to do was work with the midwives. After my first birth, a passion for women-centred care was ignited. I officially joined the team in the fall of 2011 and it’s been a wonderful journey ever since.

In these past years, I’ve now had three babies with the midwives, helped support the practice by first doing administration work and then stepping into an office management position. I’ve been there when times were very tough with the practice (Joy West-Eklund’s accident and the clinic fire), and I’ve helped grow the practice along side it’s incredible owner, Shianna Pace. I am proud that at the Shifra Centre for Wellness, we are a multi-faceted women’s health centre focusing on all areas of women’s health. It’s taken a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are now, and I am incredibly proud of this clinic that was once a dream spoken of in a friends living room.

It has been my honour to greet clients, hold babies, and support our wonderful female practitioners as they bless the lives of many with their skills. I am so proud to be a part of this team and so blessed to call Shifra my work home.