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BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre

Anti-racist, intersectional feminist and culturally-informed healing and wellness for BIPOC folks.

02/28/2026

For generations, the communities most impacted by state violence have been the first to name it and too often, the first to be dismissed.

What’s happening to Latinx communities, alongside Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in the U.S., is not new. It is not an abstract policy debate. It is state violence. It is family separation. It is the criminalization of migration.

And for many of us in Canada, it is not distant. Our loved ones are directly impacted. The fear, trauma, and uncertainty do not stop at the border, they ripple outward, into our homes and through our nervous systems.

The same systems that enable this violence in the United States: colonial borders, anti-Black racism, the policing of migration and racialized surveillance are embedded in our institutions here in Canada, too.

We are not immune.

To our Latinx community members, and to racialized and immigrant communities across the Global Majority diaspora:

Your stories matter.
Your agency matters.
Your experiences matter.
We matter.
And our voices carry power, because we decide that they do.

02/03/2026

Happy Black History Month 🤎
This year marks 30 years of recognizing Black History Month in Canada. As we take time to reflect on the remarkable achievements of Black Canadians, we also want to intentionally highlight the contributions of Black community members across industries, cultures, and social movements.

Black communities have long been on the ground and on the front lines of social change; organizing, leading, and resisting well before these realities entered mainstream awareness. With so much unfolding in the world right now, many are only beginning to experience what Black communities have been naming and navigating for generations.

We want to honour the Black voices that have consistently raised these concerns and affirm that recognition must never come at the expense of Black leadership, labour, or insight. The contributions of Black communities are not new, not reactive, and not peripheral. they are foundational, ever-growing, and ever-evolving.

As we move through this month, we celebrate Black history not as something behind us, but as something living, carried forward through community, culture, resistance, and care

01/21/2026

Love often comes naturally.
Learning how to be in relationship takes care, language, and practice. We are now offering Gottman's couple therapy with Daniela Osoria.

Our couples work begins with a thoughtful assessment phase, designed to slow things down, honor your story, and focus on what truly needs care. This process isn’t about blame or diagnosis, but about clarity, respect, and strengthening the relationship itself.

This work is especially important to approach gently. For many BIPOC communities, psychological language and systems have not always felt safe or affirming. Our approach centers respect, lived experience, and relational wisdom, not blame.

We learn how to love better not because something is “wrong,” but because relationships deserve language, practice, and intention.

To learn more about if Gottman's Couples therapy is the right fit for you book a free consultation through the link in our bio.

01/14/2026

You deserve therapy that understands your lived experience, honours your identity, and doesn’t require you to overexplain or minimize yourself.

Our identities, cultures, histories, and the systems around us shape how we experience the world, and also how we heal.

Exploring therapy with a BIPOC therapist can be a way to honour choice, safety, and alignment.

For many folks, shared cultural understanding can make it easier to feel seen, understood, and supported without having to overexplain.

Therapy should meet you where you are and honour your story at your own pace.

If you’re curious about starting therapy, we’re here to explore that with you! We offer trauma-informed, intersectional, culturally responsive care that honours your wholeness 🤎

12/14/2025

As we move through the holiday season, it can feel especially important to reconnect with our inner child, the part of us that holds wonder, creativity, playfulness, and tenderness 🤎

The holidays often stir up nostalgia and emotional complexity. Returning to our inner child can help us move through this season with more compassion, grounding, and gentleness.

This year, we invite you to pause and check in with yours…
✨ Did they have a safe place to fall apart? To just be themselves?
✨ Did they have a physically and emotionally safe home to land in?
✨ Did they have to step up or carry more responsibility than many other kids?
✨ If you could visit them today, what would you do together?

Take a moment to send some love to your inner child.
Maybe that looks like rest, play, creativity, softness — or simply offering yourself the care you needed then.

12/01/2025

Guess who's back! 👋🏾 Our team member Nasim Switzer is back in the office and accepting new clients.

After spending time off for parental leave, she’s returning with the same grounded, compassionate presence that her clients know and love.

As a mixed-race person Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC), she works from a culturally informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and intersectional lens. She supports folks navigating:

🌿 Anxiety
🌿 Trauma
🌿 Interpersonal challenges
🌿 Parenting during the perinatal period and beyond
🌿 Breaking intergenerational cycles with intention and care

Whether you’re hoping to feel safe in your body again, strengthen your relationships, or reconnect with your values, she’s here to walk alongside you.

🤎 Sessions available online across AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NWT, YT & NU.

If you'd like to book an appointment with Nasim, contact us at:
📞 587-760-1311
📧 admin@bipochealingcentre.ca

11/03/2025

We know therapy isn’t always accessible — especially in this economy. That’s why our intern therapist Alaynna is offering one free 50-minute session to help reduce the cost barrier for folks seeking support.

After your first session, therapy continues at $60/session with limited sliding scale options available (as low as $30/session).
This offering is especially for students, folks without insurance, and anyone facing financial barriers to therapy 🤎

You can also book a free 15-minute consultation to connect with Alaynna and see if it’s a good fit.

To book, email admin@bipochealingcentre.ca or call 587-760-1311.

10/28/2025

Dear Black Women, Indigenous Women, and Women of Colour:

Your feelings are valid. Society doesn’t always make space for our pain, our sadness, or our softness — but that ends here.
Our emotions are policed, our anger demonized, our sadness overlooked. We fight against racism, patriarchy, and stereotypes — leaving little room to rest, feel, or heal.
This Canadian Women’s History Month, honour your mind, body, and spirit.

You’re allowed to rest.
You’re allowed to feel.
You’re allowed to heal.

Your softness is not weakness. Your healing is resistance. 🤎

10/17/2025

The world feels heavy. Genocide continues, books are banned, anti-black/brown rhetoric grows, and as systems fail blame falls on our racialized communities.

Pause. Inhale. 1…2…3… Exhale.

This is your reminder that It’s okay to care for yourself.
To rest. To find joy, healing, and connection. 🌿
Collective care is resistance. We survive together. ✨

10/15/2025

Closing Hispanic Heritage Month / Cerrando el Mes de la Herencia Hispana ✨

As we wrap up this month of celebration, we honor the stories, rhythms, and resilience that shape Latinx identity — from Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MÁS FoTOs, a love letter to Puerto Rico and its people, to Karol G’s Trópicoqueta, a vibrant ode to joy and femininity. We also recognize the voices that ground us in history and reflection, like Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s Children of the Land.
Culture lives in memory, music, and movement — in every beat, every word, every act of remembrance. ❤️💃🏽🌎
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated each year from September 15 to October 15 — a time to honor the histories, cultures, and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx communities across the world.

Written and curated by: Daniela Perez

10/06/2025

Thinking about starting therapy? Working with an intern therapist might be the perfect fit for you!

Here’s why:

🤎 Intern therapists often provide sessions at the most affordable rates, making healing more accessible.

🤎 They are at the forefront of innovation, learning and applying the newest practices.

🤎If you’re new to therapy, you can take comfort knowing they’re learning too — you’re growing and healing together.

🤎They bring a fresh voice and new outlook into the therapy space; plus, all their work is guided by experienced supervisors to ensure quality care.

At the BIPOC Healing & Wellness Centre, our intern therapists are committed to creating safe, inclusive, and culturally informed spaces for your journey.

Ready to begin your healing journey with us? click the link in our bio or contact us at 587-760-1311 or at admin@bipochealingcentre.ca to book your first session.

10/03/2025

✨Happy Hispanic Heritage Month / Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana ✨

From September 15 to October 15, we honor Hispanic and Latinx people across our countries, in the diaspora, and the many traditions that keep our cultures alive.

This month, we especially uplift the legacy of Curanderas/os, Santeras/os, Babalawos, Indigenous shamans, and traditional healers whose wisdom was too often hidden or dismissed under colonial and white supremacist systems.

These healers held space for spirit, memory, and community, offering care that goes far beyond Western frameworks of mental health.

Healing is deeply tied to decolonization. To forget our roots, our ancestors, and our ways of knowing is to lose vital threads of connection. By naming and honoring these traditions, we affirm that healing has always lived in our communities, and continues when we bring light to what was once silenced.

(Inspired by the work of Jennifer Mullans Decolonizing Therapy)

Cheers,
Daniela Osoria

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Unit B, 10021 167 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
T5P3W3

Website

http://www.bipochealingcentre.ca/

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