If stress, anxiety, poor sleep, and decreased performance have left you feeling overwhelmed and disconnected from your body’s natural rhythms, Functional Breathing Coach Louise Brans Fitzgibbon at BreathCoach.ca offers proven breathing tools and techniques to help you reclaim control over your daily experience.

Founded on the understanding that while breathing is natural, but it can take intentionality to embrace its therapeutic potential, this specialized practice can help you transform your overall well-being through the power of your own breath.

Based in Ontario, with sessions available online worldwide, Louise’s 20+ years of experience as a career counsellor, mindfulness enthusiast, and peer-support grief facilitator, plus in her role as a supportive partner and mother, and her work facilitating breathwork workshops for individuals, groups, and workplace wellness programs, means she understands first-hand the impact and importance of tools such as breathwork for helping manage life’s stressors and to respond compassionately to both others and yourself. It was her own personal journey in searching for ways to help settle anxiety and increase performance that led her to personally discover the power of Functional Breathing, in fact and today, it drives her passion for helping others experience the same benefits.

With approximately 20,000 breaths taken each day, research consistently shows that breathwork is a fundamental and practical way to help improve health and wellness; after all, reported outcomes include, but are not limited to, stress and anxiety reduction and lower blood pressure, as well as increased sleep quality, mental clarity, focus, and energy.

Louise brings multiple globally recognized certifications to the table, helping craft personalized programs for each client best suited to their needs, concerns, and lifestyle. Her approach recognizes that no matter what responsibilities, work, or hobbies fill your time, Functional Breathing techniques can help enhance your day-to-day.

Louise’s client-centered, responsive, and respectful approach ensures that each person receives actionable plans guided toward achieving their specific goals. The practice focuses on transforming dysfunctional breathing patterns, such as mouth breathing or chest breathing instead of diaphragmatic breathing, frequent sighing or yawning, and visible breathing movements, into functional breathing that helps improve blood circulation, increase endurance and lung capacity, maintain nervous system balance, enhances sleep and focus, improves posture, and reduces injury risk.

// Functional Breathing Workshop — Breathe Better, Feel Better

This 60-minute online session provides a foundational understanding of the science of breathing and its relationship to stress, anxiety, performance, and self-awareness. Participants learn optimal breathing habits through guided breathwork practices that can be implemented immediately into daily life, making it perfect for those curious about breathwork and seeking practical tools for immediate application.

// 1:1 Functional Breathing Session

A single, personalized breathing session that includes functional breathing assessments and the development of customized breathwork exercises based on individual needs and goals.

// Breathing Performance Booster

This comprehensive five-week personalized breathing program includes functional breathing assessments and the development of a customized breathwork program based on individual needs and goals. The program provides deeper, more ongoing learning for those ready to commit to transforming their breathing patterns and experiencing lasting changes in stress management, sleep quality, and overall performance.