About Dr. Elena Sherwood

Like many, I did what I was told to do: get an education, have a career, marry, have kids, and do it all with a confident smile right? Wrong.

Penniless but passionate, I put myself through my first degree in social work. My second degree I did while living away from my husband, and my third was the same, but with two small kids in tow. I can power through like the best of them, even when I shouldn’t have.

It took me a while to understand how events in my earlier life led to the clinical depression I hid from the world. There were losses, heartache, and deep wounds that hadn’t healed. Born in the Philippines I came to Canada in my teens, with a complex immigration story. Oh course I hid my deep sadness, therapists can’t possibly need therapists. Another wrong.

Before I lost everything, I took the anti-depressants my doctor had been pleading for me to take. On more stable ground I found someone I could trust, and committed to the healing process vulnerably and wholeheartedly. It took several years, but when I fully embodied what I’d been helping others with for decades, peace came and stayed.

Everyone has a valuable and meaningful story, parts of it can wrinkle into bumps, that can turn into roadblocks.

While healing isn’t linear, as we move through life there are ALWAYS clues to the most breathtaking parts of us.