Healing Spaces Therapy

04/24/2026

Are you like a flower, staying a little more closed today? That’s ok, sometimes that just makes sense.

04/07/2026

Despite the cold uncertain circumstances, life still emerges. The long cold winter gives way and the brave flowers find their time, even despite the snow. While the world around us can be uncertain and unkind, and we can find wisdom in the lessons of nature’s rhythms.

We can tap into our rootedness, the power that already exists within us, and turn toward the sun. We can open courageously to our more true selves, and the world becomes a little more beautiful as we do.

May the gifts of the first opening buds bring you hope and meaning.

Sincerely,
Melissa

04/01/2026

Transforming Harm

In a world where there seem to be endless examples of harm, we can make choices to show up differently. For those of us who were taught to be small, to be nice, and internalize other people’s toxicity, instead we can learn to release that.

I am learning that water can be a powerful transformative medium. We can release all the tension that our body is holding to water. For years I have struggled with not wanting to just dump toxicity to the earth or water. When we attune to the lessons of nature, the planet is teaching us that energy needs to move through a system, whether as rain to rivers to plants, or as past harm, to current harm, to release to be healed and transformed. We can let our experiences of hurt go to water with the intention of causing healing within our own system (our bodies, minds, spirits, relationships) an in the wider systems of healing for the earth. Instead of keeping those hurts as bottled energy inside, the earth shows that we can release. In sophisticated earth systems, symbiosis takes place where all parts benefit for the greater whole. We can release to bring healing, and in our letting go, we can benefit the whole system. The earth wants us to heal so that the wider systems can rebalance and heal. Our vitality as individuals impacts the whole.

Take a moment to just exhale. Call to your awareness any tension your body is holding. With compassion, connect back any harms that were passed on to you that you may still be holding. Breathe. With the intention of bringing healing to your body and the world around you, release to the water that is around you in this moment. Perhaps the rain, or to a glass of water that can move through you. With gratitude, invite for the healing and transformation of water and the wider systems. As you revisit this practice, I hope that you too can breathe a little lighter while nature’s systems welcome your gift of energy.

Earth blessings.
Sincerely,
Melissa Clews-Hunt, MSc, RP, RMFT-SM

03/15/2026

The powerful transformations of spring are upon us!

03/11/2026

There’s something about walking beside a river that makes it easy to smile. 🌿

Out here, I’m reminded of the quiet gifts of witnessing.

Witnessing the earth shift and change with the seasons; the river moving, the trees waking up, the light returning.

And in my work, I’m honoured to witness something just as powerful; the healing and growth of my clients. Subtle shifts. Brave moments. New ways of being that unfold over time.

Change rarely happens all at once. It flows, just like a river.

If you’re in a season of change, you don’t have to move through this time alone.

✨ Sometimes healing begins simply with someone witnessing your potential.

02/27/2026

As winter loosens its grip, the river begins to speak again.

Animal footprints remain on a drifting sheet of ice — traces of where life once moved with certainty across frozen ground. Gradually, the ice is softening and giving way to the current beneath it. The path is dissolving. What once held weight is letting go.

The signs of winter passing are subtle, but powerful.

Where creatures once walked, it is now softening, shifting, becoming something new.

Spring reminds us that nothing is meant to stay frozen forever.

What needs to melt inside you to find a fresh new start?
Old patterns? Protective layers? Grief that has been waiting for warmth?

In nature, change is not forced — it unfolds. And we can, too.

If you’re sensing the thaw within yourself, therapy can be a space to gently explore what’s ready to soften and what wants to grow next.

🌿 If this resonates, reach out to begin your own spring thaw. Book a session or connect for a consultation — Healing Spaces Therapy is here to walk alongside you.

02/17/2026

With the deep cold this winter, we have the gift of witnessing what happens when Mother Earth creates art with the elements.

02/10/2026

✨ Nature’s Energy in Winter ✨

To restore ourselves, many of us are drawn outdoors into natural spaces where we can breathe a little deeper and feel a little lighter. The calm and quiet of nature often helps us slow our thoughts and gently settle our nervous system.

Recently, I’ve been paying closer attention to how different landscapes carry different kinds of energy.

With the deep freeze this season, rivers that are usually so enchanting have become frozen over. I’ve noticed that simply being near them is still energizing — but it feels different than when the water is flowing and you can hear the bubbling melody of movement and life.

In these winter months, the presence of the sun brings such an immediate burst of joy. And sparkling snow carries its own kind of soft excitement — a reminder that even in stillness, nature offers beauty and renewal.

🌿 What natural spaces lift you up the most?

02/04/2026

❄️ Winter isn’t the end of nature therapy… it’s an invitation. 🌲✨

When the world quiets under snow, something in us quiets too.

Winter asks us to slow down.
To breathe deeper.
To listen more closely.

The trees are still holding us, even without leaves.
The cold air wakes up our senses.
The crunch of snow becomes a grounding rhythm.

Nature doesn’t disappear in winter —
it becomes softer, simpler, and incredibly healing.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or heavy lately…
try stepping outside for just a few minutes.

Not to do anything.
Just to be.

Let winter meet you gently.
There is warmth here, even in the cold. 🤍

🌿 What’s one small way you connect with nature in winter?

✨ If you’re longing for deeper support and connection, Healing Spaces Therapy offers ecotherapy and nature-based counselling to help you feel grounded, supported, and more like yourself — even in the hardest seasons.

📩 Reach out today to learn more or book a session.

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02/04/2026

Our deep connection with the land, reflected from an Okanogan Indigenous perspective

01/26/2026

Supervisors Group

For therapists who are clinical supervisors, come together with other supervisors to grow and expand our networks of support. This Supervision Mentoring Group is offered virtually, for 2 hours each month. Individual supervision mentoring is also available. Contact Melissa or book yourself in 1-1 to learn more.

Ecotherapy group supervision meetings integrate nature-based experiential exercises to benefit your wellbeing and that you can offer to your clients. In the ways we invite clients to heal relationships, we can draw on our unique stance as therapists to create a wider healing in our relationship with

01/22/2026

We are connected to the land in so many ways; physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. When you are outside in a quiet space, notice what happens to your sense of self.