I trained as a medical rehabilitation specialist and earned my bachelor’s degree in the field. For over five years, I practiced as a physical therapist and was very successful. I founded my own company, bringing physical therapy services to people’s doorsteps and expanding operations across several states. Everything looked perfect on the outside the business was thriving, finances were stable, and I was making strategic connections.

But despite all that success, something inside me felt stuck. It was as though I had climbed to the top, only to realize I couldn’t breathe there. I would come home each day with a deep sense of dissatisfaction. I knew there was more, but I couldn’t quite locate where that “more” would come from.

The turning point came with a patient  a young woman in her early twenties who had sustained a gunshot injury while heading for her National Youth Service. The bullet left her paralyzed from the waist down. I treated her with every bit of skill, compassion, and hope I had. Many times, I went home in tears, reading and researching through the night for answers. I prayed silently as I worked on her, asking God if He could heal her and if not, why? But despite every effort, nothing seemed to change.

That experience broke something in me and at the same time, it awakened something deeper. It drove me to question my faith. Though I grew up in a Christian home where devotion and church attendance were a norm, what I saw in reality didn’t align with what I had been taught. I reached a crossroads: either God no longer speaks to people, or there was something about Him and about life that I did not yet understand.

So, I embarked on a journey of discovery a process of deconstructing my faith in order to find it again. I wanted truth, not just tradition. I went in search of God  if He truly existed  and what I found changed everything.

As a physical therapist, I also believed perhaps my limitations came from working in a developing country. I thought maybe advanced nations had better technology and knowledge that could produce better results for patients. So, I left Nigeria and moved to Canada determined to learn, observe, and return to build something that could bring real healing to my people.

I started working as a physiotherapy assistant to immerse myself in the system before committing fully. To my surprise, even in this advanced setting, I still saw the same pattern limited recovery, partial healing, and lingering pain. It was as if my entire professional world was unraveling before me.

Yet, in that breakdown, I caught a glimpse of something new.

I began engaging my patients in deeper conversations  beyond their physical symptoms and I discovered a consistent pattern: those who struggled to improve often battled unseen emotional and mental wounds. That was my first introduction to mental health.

Coming from a culture where mental health was hardly discussed, this realization was groundbreaking. In all my years working in a few Nigeria hospitals, I had never encountered a counselor, psychologist, or therapist. Even physical therapy itself was often misunderstood not to mention emotional healing.

At that moment, I had a choice to make: continue trimming branches, or go to the root.

I chose the root.

That choice led me to pivot my career — from treating the body to healing the whole person. I began working in an addiction recovery home — not as a professional, but from the ground up. Over the years, I grew within the mental health and addiction field: from recovery homes to harm reduction programs, from case management to restorative justice facilitation, working with individuals entangled in the criminal justice system.

Through it all, I encountered people from every spectrum of pain and transformation  the corporate refugee, the faith deconstructor, and the transition navigator and I recognized each of them as reflections of my own journey through different seasons of life.

Today, my passion is to help release the masterpiece trapped within each person and empower them to live the life they were designed for a life of purpose, freedom, and impact.

My purpose is clear

 

to restore hope, rebuild lives, and raise leaders who will transform their world with purpose.