Jacqueline’s background and training are unique. She was born and raised in Winnipeg, where she swam and coached for Manta Swim Club and completed her Psychology degree at the University of Manitoba. She completed her Master of Science degree in Sport Psychology at Lund University in Sweden in 2015. During this time, she also completed a Sport Psychology internship at the Canadian Sport Centre and was supervised by Dr. Adrienne Leslie-Toogood, working with the U of M Bisons Golf and Hockey teams. Jacqueline then went on to pursue medicine and completed medical school in 2020 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in Bahrain, living in the Middle East for 5 years.

Jacqueline currently lives in Winnipeg with her husband and daughter, Hamilton, and is an Emergency Medicine resident physician at the University of Manitoba. Jacqueline hopes to pursue a fellowship in Sports Medicine and bring together the mental and physical components of athletic performance. In the meantime, Jacqueline remains active in her consulting work and continues to expand her training in mental performance. She is passionate about working with athletes of all ages to set and achieve their goals, placing special emphasis on maintaining focus, resilience training, and the use of visualization and imagery through a Mindfulness based approach.