12/11/2025
FOAW Women Wednesday
WOMEN WEDNESDAY highlights the ah-mazing Achlaï Ernest Wallace
ACHLAÏ ERNEST WALLACE
Founder & Executive Director, IWMN
It’s only fitting that we close this Women Wednesday Board Spotlight series with the one whose personal healing gave birth to a movement, Achlaï Ernest Wallace, the Founder and Executive Director of the International Women’s Ministry Network (IWMN).
Achlaï is a woman marked by covenant, courage, and calling. Her heart beats for the emotional healing and empowerment of women, especially those navigating the pressures and pain of leadership. For over two decades, she has labored faithfully in this work, and over the past several years, she has expanded that calling to include all people through her clinical practice, Wallace and Wallace Healing Center.
A registered psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, Achlaï specializes in anxiety, trauma, grief, relationships, and spiritual restoration. Her integrative approach blends clinical excellence, including CBT, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy with deep spiritual discernment. Whether in the therapy room or at the altar, her mission remains the same: to lead people to healing and wholeness.
But the vision for IWMN was born not in a classroom or on a strategy board, it was born through her own healing. While living in the United States, Achlaï experienced firsthand the emotional and spiritual restoration that changed her life. When she returned home to Montreal, Quebec, she knew God was calling her to provide that same safe space for other women. And so, IWMN was born, a ministry that now stands as a bridge between the church and the therapy room, creating space for women leaders to be vulnerable, seen, and restored.
Today, Achlaï leads emotional healing retreats, facilitates group therapy, trains community leaders, and continues to invest in her own growth, having earned her Masters of Christian Counseling, Clinical Mental Health at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. She also serves as a worship leader, speaker, teacher, and mentor to countless women. Most recently she founded and is the Artistic Director of the London Kids Community Gospel Choir where she mentors through Gospel music, over 30 children between the ages of 7-17.
She currently lives in London, Ontario, Canada with her beloved husband, Kenneth Wallace, and their radiant daughter, her favorite walking companion and daily source of joy.
But beyond the credentials and accomplishments, Achlaï is my person.
Words can’t fully capture the depth of this covenant. Since the moment God brought her into my life, when she came from Montreal on what was meant to be a temporary stay, we’ve been inseparable in ministry, life, and heart. From youth ministry and mission trips to praise in the park, choir, Bible studies, sleepovers, fundraising, and late-night sister talks, we’ve done it all.
She is the one who taught me how to journal, who challenged me to deepen my devotional life, who stood by me through every mountain and valley. She’s seen me at my lowest and still called me worthy. A true evangelist and encourager, there is no room she walks into where she doesn’t shift the atmosphere. The anointing on her life is generational, and her transparency has ushered hundreds of women into freedom.
She is my safe place. My sharpening.
My sister in spirit, in purpose, in covenant.
And I’m forever grateful to rock this Kingdom work with her… until the wheels fall off.