Bahar Karimi

She is drawn to the tension between structure and experience, between what is visible and what is felt, and to the ways awareness can shift how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.

Trained as a nurse and shaped by over two decades of experience across long-term care, community services, and holistic care, Bahar brings together clinical insight with a relational and embodied understanding of human experience. She currently serves as Executive Director of Clinical Practice and the Centre of Excellence in Healthcare Innovation at Thrive Group, where she leads initiatives focused on workforce sustainability, co-creation, and the transformation of care delivery.

Her professional journey began as a Personal Support Worker before becoming a Registered Practical Nurse and later a Registered Nurse — a path that continues to inform her deep commitment to the lived realities of care and the people who provide it. She holds graduate degrees in Nursing and Health Sciences and is completing her PhD in Nursing at Western University, where her research explores the social organization of care work and the sustainability of the long-term care workforce.

Alongside her leadership and academic work, Bahar is the founder of WellnessFix and BeautyFix, where she integrates psychotherapy, yoga, holistic wellbeing, and medical aesthetics into a practice that supports both inner experience and outer expression. Her approach brings together nursing, behavioural neuroscience, leadership, psychotherapy-informed practice, and embodied disciplines in a way that is thoughtful, grounded, and deeply human.

Across all of her work, Bahar is particularly interested in how attention and awareness shape experience — and in how small shifts in how we observe, listen, and relate can lead to meaningful change. She designs and facilitates experiences that invite reflection, emotional intelligence, and authentic connection, often drawing on art and shared dialogue as a way of deepening engagement and understanding.

Through her roles as a consultant, leadership coach, educator, and facilitator — and through initiatives such as The Space Between — Bahar creates spaces where people can slow down, think more clearly, connect more meaningfully, and engage more fully with themselves and others.