Healing Spaces Therapy

06/14/2025

To celebrate pride month, here is a fantastic list of updated terms within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. I read it in many chunks to let these powerful words sink in. Enjoy!

05/06/2025

Reciprocal gifts. I went out to harvest fiddleheads (ferns as they emerge) and caught my mistake. In thinking about what I could take I remembered to bring a container to collect my harvest. I neglected to consider what is my offering first in gratitude. Then the answer arose that the container can carry a gift of water from the nearby river to the fern plants as nourishment and thanks. Lessons present themselves as we deepen into reciprocal care with the earth.

04/27/2025

We can heal our emotions through our relationship with plants. They are our wise teachers and we can come back into respectful relationships again

04/24/2025

The long winter slumber is over and just like the plants we awaken at the sun‘s vibrant arrival again.

Look at what happens when a little sunshine magic brightens all of our spirits!

04/18/2025

I will continue to process the wisdom offered here of the lessons from the elements

04/09/2025

The birdsongs call our attention and bring us out of our head a little more. We begin to notice the wind, and we take a deeper breath. As we move toward the river, the reflections on the moving water releases some of the tension in our shoulders. Welcome to outdoor therapy. It’s a place where we can experience healing through nature. Read more…

The birdsongs call our attention and bring us out of our head a little more. We begin to notice the wind, and we take a deeper breath. As we move toward the river, the reflections on the moving water releases some of the tension in our shoulders. Welcome to outdoor therapy. It’s a place where we c...

04/04/2025

I just came across something called “Eco attachment dance” which is to increase our ecological attachment—nature connection—through small daily practices, it looks amazing!

A 28 Day Guide To Renewing Your Ecological Attachment

03/27/2025

https://www.healingspacestherapy.ca/learn/the-fall-of-the-patriarch

We are living at the precipice of one dominant worldview making way for a new era to emerge. The systems we have lived by of hierarchy and oppression are spinning out of control. Racism, colonization, dominance of the earth

03/17/2025

Looks like a great offering and very timely

$799 CAD for Canadians. Two scholarships are also available. Many of us are struggling. Feelings of anxiety, dread, and even helplessness are at an all-time high. Fire season, catastrophic storms, and the loss of plant and animal species are the new normal. Everywhere we look things seem off the

02/08/2025

For the many who are feeling overwhelmed by the current political, social and environmental context this recording by Linda Buzzell shares some transformative insights for finding our way through this time to a future we want to envision.

In July 2024, Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist wrote a LinkedIn article on "The Great Backlash," exploring the inevitability of right-wing resistance to Joa...

02/07/2025

What an impact for so many people’s mental health, drink in the sun when you can.

Seen on a friend's timeline 🙂

01/08/2025

Group Therapy for the Climate Concerned: Facing Our Pain and Resilience Together

For those concerned about the state of our earth, come together in community to support each other, discover that what you are feeling is a natural response, and cocreate resilient ways to move forward in these times. As you get in touch with your deeply felt emotional responses to the climate crisis, be validated that so many are feeling those same things.

Drawing from the work of Joanna Macy, Climate Cafes, anti oppressive practice, and traditional psychotherapy, this group provides a space to dive deeper into what it is like to live at this time of climate crisis and how as a collective we can move through this time. Together we can widen the individual lens common in psychotherapy and collectively cocreate synergy that is bigger than any one of us.

These virtual meetings are facilitated by Melissa Clews-Hunt, MSc, RP, RMFT-SM, who has been a psychotherapist for 20 years, is a Registered Psychotherapist, a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist, and an Ecotherapist. Each week we will move through themes with guided questions to help us process through what we are feeling about the climate crisis and to mobilize how we want to respond. Together we will create space for our cherishing, our suffering and joy, call in our intersectional positions of power and privilege, explore what it means to be hopeful, and contribute to building a new narrative of reciprocity with the earth. Create space in your day to reflect and integrate ripples of healing into your everyday life. Allow our common concerns to become part of a collective response to support each of us, one another, and all of the earth.

www.healingspacestherapy.ca/therapy

6 weeks, 12:00 noon -1:00 EST, Tuesdays starting January 28, 2025
Virtual
$300 no tax, Check if your benefits cover group psychotherapy
Space is limited to a small group environment, so please register early
Deadline to register is January 21, 2025

In our mental health work together, we can invite curiosity into your personal experiences with outdoor therapy. We can explore how your past impacts your present, and how you can find empowerment to make the choices you want now, and into the future.