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Door Number Three is a safe, human way to shift patterns that haven't changed through therapy, coaching, or insight alone.
Practitioner
Carmen Straight
For business owners, artists, immigrants, and people who have tried many paths forward — and who are no longer seeking another coping strategy, but a deeper reorganization of how they relate to themselves and their lives.
Carmen has been in that place herself. At sixteen, she had made a vow to find what was true beneath the surface of human experience. That search led her through esoteric study, meditation caves in Tibet, and deep cultural immersions across nineteen countries. Alongside that journey, she spent more than thirty years working in complimentary health care, palliative and hospice care, sitting with individuals and families at the threshold of profound life transitions.
She nearly stopped searching altogether. Then she found this work — the first thing that shifted the structure beneath what she had spent years trying to change.
That combination — a lifetime of seeking and years spent alongside people at the edge of life — shaped how she sees what sits underneath a problem. Today, Carmen works with business owners, artists, immigrants, and people who are searching for significant inner work and are ready for an approach that reaches the deeper truth of what is holding their lives and businesses in place.
No contracts. No pressure to continue. You decide what happens after each session.
Location
Vancouver, Canada
Sessions Via Zoom
Pricing
$70
2-Hour Session • $35/hr •Friends & Family Rate
Intro Call
Free
20-min
Privacy
Sessions are private and paid directly, not billed through insurance, and do not involve a clinical diagnosis or medical record.
About Carmen
A seasoned practitioner working with people through transition, uncertainty, and reinvention — with a focus on the underlying structures that quietly shape our lives and human experience.
Carmen left home at fifteen. By sixteen, she had made a vow to find what was true — not as an idea, but as a way of living. That path took her through esoteric teachings, retreats and meditation caves in Tibet, and lived immersion in nineteen countries.
Her professional life evolved in parallel and doesn’t fit neatly into a single category. She has built or consulted on more than eighty ventures — from early-stage concepts to infrastructure like water filtration systems and World Peace Cultural Exhibitions. She founded a Canadian nonprofit; ran an integrative clinic with physicians, naturopaths, and complementary practitioners; worked extensively in business organizational restructuring, often entering these systems at the point where conventional approaches had already failed.
For more than thirty years, she worked in health care, palliative and hospice care, sitting with people and families at the threshold of death. That experience made something unmistakably clear: the same patterns repeat across cultures, industries, and life stages, and most approaches engage only the surface layer of those patterns rather than what is driving them underneath.
Over time, she came to understand this not only professionally, but personally. After decades of sincere effort across multiple modalities, she saw how often change remained partial. She nearly stopped searching. Then she encountered an approach that reached the level she had been looking for all along — something that finally addressed the deeper architecture beneath the pattern.
Choose Your Starting Point
Carmen's Credentials
Certifications
NLP Marin 12-month Certification
Additional Training
Professional Background
You may want to work with Carmen if you:
You do not need to know exactly what to work on. You only need to know that something keeps repeating, and you are ready to meet it differently.
In her own words