Healing Spaces Therapy

12/17/2025

https://www.healingspacestherapy.ca/learn/nature-therapy-in-the-winter

Bundled up with our winter coats and scarves, I meet my clients out at a beautiful park, these brave souls who also find the winter wind enlivening and the snow draped on trees stunning. We have come to discuss the themes they have sought out to address in therapy, but instead of sitting in front of

12/07/2025

Starting another great x country ski season! I’m so grateful 💕

12/04/2025

https://www.healingspacestherapy.ca/learn/what-does-ecotherapy-clinical-supervision-look-like

Hiking through vast ravines and forests, alongside several therapists who have been coming to meet with me for clinical supervision, we explore the work they are wanting to dig deeper into. The therapists raise questions about

11/26/2025

The phrase “it takes a village” applies beyond child-rearing. Seek out opportunities to discuss and explore questions with colleagues who share similar concerns and discomfort in our practice. In our work to decolonize our practice, we need support. https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/perspectives/articles/decolonizing-practice-of-clinical-psychology-in-the-global-south

Group supervision is a space to do just that, psychotherapists who are interested, feel free to reach out. www.healingspacestherapy.ca/contact

Book an outdoor therapy session for an individual, couple, or family. Contact Melissa Clews-Hunt, Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Marriage and Family Therapist.

11/26/2025

And some more ideas as therapists for how to decolonize our work and dismantle other forms of oppression in the field of psychotherapy

Theories and processes of psychology have largely been influenced by North American and European psychologists whose Western-oriented paradigms have not

11/26/2025

A conversation I often have with therapists in clinical supervision is how do we participate in decolonizing our work as psychotherapists. Here are some great reflections for engaging deeply in this work.

What Healing Could Be: A Practice Rooted in Love and Liberation

11/21/2025

Neurodecolonizing the Mind by Dr. Yellow Bird shows ways people who have experienced racism and trauma by colonization can heal within themselves, their relationship with Mother Earth, and activate the parts of the brain that empower political change.

Dr. Michael Yellow Bird speaks at Portland State University, "Healing through neurodecolonization and mindfulness". Indigenous scholar and activist, citizen…

11/14/2025

What a relief, I am deeply grateful to everyone who stepped up to protect this sacred place from development.

🚨 IT’S OFFICIAL: THIS PROPOSED GOLF COURSE WILL NOT GO FORWARD IN WEST MABOU BEACH PROVINCIAL PARK!!

Today, November 13th, the Houston government announced that “Cabot’s proposal to build a third golf course in parts of West Mabou Beach, in West Mabou, N.S., is off the table.”

According to CTV News: “Houston said the proposal wasn’t in the best interest, nor would it be a benefit for most Nova Scotians.”

Where to even begin to describe the emotions? Relief. Joy. Exhaustion. Disbelief that after so much effort and uncertainty, after six weeks of relentless campaigning, we can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Our park will not be handed over to this private developer.

Thank you to everyone who contacted their MLA, shared our posts, submitted FOIPOP requests, made signs, spread the word. Every little bit counted. We did this together.

HOWEVER - while we encourage everyone to celebrate this news, know that this issue is not resolved. We celebrated in 2023 - the last time Cabot’s atttempt at West Mabou Beach Provincial Park was rejected - but they tried again two years later.

We cannot ever allow this to happen again. We cannot allow our communities to be torn apart. We cannot allow for our protected areas to be needlessly threatened. We cannot allow for this debilitating anxiety to wreck our lives time and time again.

We need to AMEND THE PROVINCIAL PARKS ACT. Protected land needs to be unambiguously off-limits to big developments. Period.

All this fierce energy that has gone into fighting for this park - we need to channel it towards the protection of all parks. Clearly, it can be done.

So again, now is a time of celebration and relief. But this is not over until the Provincial Parks Act is amended, and we can be sure that this will never, ever happen again.

Let your MLA and Premier Houston know that it is time to amend the Provincial Parks Act. Ask them how they can ensure that our parks are safe from delisting and inappropriate development.

We Nova Scotians love our parks, that is clear. Now we need to protect them once and for all.

11/09/2025

First Snow in the Woods

We are captivated by the magic of the changing seasons all around us. The first snow of the season brings out in us the sweet innocence of wanting to go out and just be in the snow.

It captures the very moment of transition, and illuminates times of transition within us. When we are facing change, we sometimes experience resistance, of wanting things to remain familiar. The magic of the first snow reminds us to release to change, and to find the joy that is available to us.

I hope you take the chance to savour the precious moments of change today. ❄️

Sincerely,
Melissa

10/27/2025

And so it is...
Creator unknown- shared with Gratitude.

The Wyse Woman

10/25/2025

Inviting Light

Each of us contains the potential for growth and destruction.

A theme I have been holding with a number of clients and supervisees this week is that the choices we make can bring a depth of connection and alignment, or have the potential to be damaging to others and ourselves. Even when we are not trying to be hurtful, if we abdicate our responsibilities, we can unintentionally cause harm. We see this in our wider systems, in our intimate relationships, and in how we show up with the earth.

When we are courageous to honesty look at ourselves and make intentional choices about what impact we want to have, we bring ourselves and our relationships more into alignment.

I invite you to go out into a natural place, and notice both the potential for destruction and life. Unfortunately harm is not hard to find, but if you have eyes to see, new growth is often present too. See what opens in you as new light for life shines in.