About you & me

Becoming Fully Present
when you know how to be with yourself
You know what happens when you finally know how to be with yourself gently?
When you begin gracefully carrying the emotional burden of entrepreneurship?
You feel:
Hi, I’m Shula.
My name is Shulamit Ber Levtov;
Shula for short.
I am an entrepreneur, but I came to business ownership after I had a solid foundation as a professional in the mental health arena.
Like most of my clients and entrepreneurs like you, I know what it is like to have sleepless nights over your business. I’ve experienced chronic stress and trauma many times.
And I’m here to help.

My Journey
In addition to being an entrepreneur and a professionally- and academically-trained therapist, I’ve had my own mental health journey.
Since my teens, I’ve experienced depression. I’ve been suicidal twice. I’ve been a single mum on welfare. I’ve stayed in a domestic violence shelter with my daughter.
In the summer of 2002 I had meningitis. There was a 24-hour period where I wasn’t sure I was going to live. While I did recover physically, my mental health was profoundly affected. I went down a path of risky and dangerous behavior, engaging in trauma-related “acting out.” I didn’t have the tools I needed, as a trauma survivor, to cope.
This quite literally blew up my entire life.
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. In that moment, it hit me that I was the problem, and asked for help. I was referred to a therapist who happened to be trauma-trained. It was just what I needed. Where so many years of therapy hadn’t helped me, this time, with the right therapist, it changed my life.
For more than 21 years, I have been working in the field of mental health and personal growth, and have logged thousands of hours helping hundreds of women (and men) recover their resilience after experiencing stress and trauma. I've been an entrepreneur for more than 27 years, and in 2017, founded an award-winning holistic stress and trauma clinic in Kemptville, Ontario.
I have an MA in Counselling and Spirituality and I'm a registered social worker. I am also certified in Focusing, Nonviolent Communication, the Tapas Acupressure Technique and Kripalu Yoga. I am a certified clinical trauma professional who is also trained in assessing and teaching resilience skills, and as a coach.
To paraphrase Michael Stone, what makes us great healers is not that we are healed, but that we know how to be our with our woundedness.
I know how to be with my own woundedness, to not only function effectively in the face of challenges, but to thrive.
Working with me, you can learn to do that as well.
Reality Check
The shit will still hit the fan.
That’s running a business.
But…
You can manage your mindset.
You can work with your emotions instead of having them run the show.
You can be gentle with yourself (for real this time, so that you can actually feel it).
And, learning to do so will create results for you AND your clients.
Here’s how you can work with me.