Hilarapy is my personal formula for marrying comedy and healing. Yes, laughter is medicine — but so is deep transformational work, which often involves a lot of crying too.

My journey to the stage was fraught with shame and distress. With my tender heart and trauma, I just didn’t enjoy the toxicity of the comedy club scene. At university, I began exploring how comedy could be used to break shame and stigma and quickly realized I’d have to create a safe space where people could laugh, cry, and heal together.

For the last 12 years, I’ve worked with beautiful humans navigating their own shame and stigma. Through trial and error, alongside my own healing journey, I discovered a formula — a completely different approach to blending comedy and healing. And so began Hilarapy.

Hilarapy is about creating connection, healing through shared stories, and transforming personal struggle into medicine for the audience and the collective. The real magic comes from the combination of deep peer connection and self-healing through experiential therapeutic and spiritual growth. Comedy is the by-product — healing is the heart.

It might sound lofty, but the approach is radically different from just getting on stage and telling jokes about how terrible life has been. It’s far deeper, more intentional, and ultimately more transformative.