Healing Spaces

Healing Spaces Healing spaces provides a warm and welcoming place with our main focus on supporting you move towards the life you dream for yourself!

We focus on counselling support for anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, chronic pain, and chronic illness. Healing Spaces believes strongly in transparency and ensuring you growth and healing is the priority.

When the world feels like it’s on fire, your nervous system𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨isn’t a flaw — it’s a sign it still works. You are al...
10/22/2025

When the world feels like it’s on fire, your nervous system

𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨

isn’t a flaw — it’s a sign it still works. You are alive. You are human. Wonderfully human in a very trying time. 💚⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

If you’re feeling waves of anxiety, numbness, or deep sadness in response to what’s happening around you — globally or locally — that’s not “too sensitive.” 🌿

That’s your system picking up on pain it was

𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵

to register.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

For many highly sensitive, neurodivergent and trauma-shaped nervous systems, the collective pain of the world doesn’t stay on the screen — it lands in the body.

We feel injustice like static. We ache in ways others call “overreacting.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

But empathy is a form of intelligence. Sensitivity is wisdom.

And noticing the pain of the world is often the first step toward helping it heal.❤️‍🩹⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

So today, if it all feels like too much—turn down the noise, hold something warm, breathe back into your body.

Take care of yourself. You deserve that. 💚

Send this to another beautifully sensitive person you know. 🌿

10/21/2025

So excited for this new offering to build community connections! 🤩

I'll weave in:
✅ my clinical perspective as a trauma counsellor
✅ lived experience.

First one is: October 27th 11:30-12:30 FREE!!!
Pathological Demand Avoidance - A Central Nervous System Approach

Lunch & learn style presentations on
- Trauma
- Neruodiversity
- ADHD
- Pathological Demand Avoidance
- Rejection Sensitive Disphoria
- Autism

👉DM me for the link!
(You will get access to the recording after too)

**This might be the last time I see you — if you want to stay friends, follow for more on living as a human in this world in an honest way.**

10/20/2025

Sometimes what we call “dysregulation”
…is actually feeling. 😳

I know I know!! It's a lot.

Feeling deeply can be overwhelming. Because it is overwhelming to feel when we haven't in so long.

When we rush to regulate every big feeling, we can accidentally step out of the very process that heals us.
💚 The goal isn’t always to calm down.
🌱 Sometimes the goal is to stay present enough to feel.

That’s where integration lives.
That’s where healing begins.

Check out our bio if you would like to explore big feelings with out team!

**This might be the last time I see you — if you want to stay friends, follow for more on living as a human in this world in an honest way.**

10/17/2025

Yes… that’s me in my kid’s sensory swing. 🙃
Sometimes the best regulation tool in the house isn’t just for them — it’s for me too.

💚 Movement regulates.
💚 Pausing matters.
💚 Taking a moment for yourself isn’t selfish — it’s how you keep showing up.

Save this as your reminder: you’re allowed to use the tools you offer everyone else. 🌱

October isn’t just a vibe shift — it’s a body shift. 🍂For many neurodivergent folks, the season doesn’t just mean cozy s...
10/17/2025

October isn’t just a vibe shift — it’s a body shift. 🍂
For many neurodivergent folks, the season doesn’t just mean cozy sweaters. It means:

✨ sensory changes — colder air, new textures, new routines

✨ social changes — more demands, more expectations

✨ world changes — the noise of news, the collective unease

If October feels louder in your body, you’re not broken.

💚 You’re attuned. You’re noticing what others might miss.
Save this for the days you need the reminder that sensitivity is wisdom. 🌱

10/15/2025

🩺 Doctors and healthcare providers bring medical training and expertise — but you are the expert on your own body.

✨ Your symptoms are real.
✨ Your lived experience matters.
✨ You don’t need to prove your pain, fatigue, or struggles to deserve care.

If you’ve ever felt dismissed, minimized, or gaslit in medical spaces, remember: collaboration is the goal, but self-trust is the foundation. 🌿

💚 Advocacy doesn’t always mean confrontation — sometimes it simply means staying anchored in your truth, even when the system struggles to see it.
👉 Link to full video in bio

Healing isn’t soft filters, white sheets, or perfect journals.It’s rage.It’s tears.It’s confusion.It’s making tea after ...
10/15/2025

Healing isn’t soft filters, white sheets, or perfect journals.
It’s rage.

It’s tears.

It’s confusion.

It’s making tea after crying and trying again anyway.

Healing is messy.
✨
Healing is non-linear.
✨
Healing still counts.
💚
Save this for the days you wonder if you’re doing it “right.”

10/14/2025

We believe you.

When you tell us your story — what you’re going through, what you’ve gone through, what it’s like to be you in your world — we start there.

Yes, we bring education, training, and years of experience. But more than that, we bring curiosity and respect for the threads of your life:
🌱 the difficulties you’ve faced
🌱 the strengths you’ve carried
🌱 the person you are today
🌱 the person you’re growing into tomorrow

Counselling isn’t about doubting your story. It’s about believing it, holding it, and walking alongside you as it unfolds. 💚

👉 Check out the link to the full video in bio

10/12/2025

One tiny shift → one huge difference.

Instead of scrolling for your “break”… try looking up. Notice the clouds, the sky, the air. 🌤️

✨ It grounds your nervous system.
✨ It resets your energy.
✨ It’s available, right here.

Save this as your reminder: you don’t always need a screen break. Sometimes you need a cloud break. 💚

10/10/2025

“Power means responsibility.”
That’s how Jacinda Ardern defined it in an interview, and it landed so deeply with me. 🌱

It feels so different from the versions of power we’re seeing play out in the world right now. And yet — it still feels profoundly true.

I’ll be honest: I tend to lean toward responsibility… sometimes into over-responsibility. But hearing power named this way — not as control, not as domination, but as responsibility — was such a grounding reminder.

✨ Responsibility to lead with compassion.
✨ Responsibility to care for ourselves.
✨ Responsibility to extend kindness outward.

In times like these, compassion for ourselves and others matters more than ever. It’s worth being mindful of how much media we’re taking in, what kind, and how it impacts our nervous systems.

From my heart to yours 💚 sending warmth, gentleness, and a reminder that kindness is never wasted.

✨ New Workshop Announcement! ✨I’m hosting a PDA Lunch & Learn: Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance & the Nervo...
10/09/2025

✨ New Workshop Announcement! ✨

I’m hosting a PDA Lunch & Learn: Introduction to Pathological Demand Avoidance & the Nervous System — designed for both parents and professionals who want to better understand this often-misunderstood profile of autism.

We’ll cover:
🌱 What PDA is (and isn’t)
🌱 How do PDAers communicate?
🌱 Nervous system + autonomy lens (nod to polyvagal)
🌱 Everyday examples & practical shifts you can try right away

This is a gentle first step into PDA — accessible, research-informed, and rooted in lived experience.

📅 Date: Monday October 27th
🕛 Time: [11:30-12:30 PST
📍 Location: Zoom (link sent after registration)

💌 To save your spot, DM me or email me at kelsey@healingspaces.center.
Spaces are limited so I can keep this interactive!

And yes — you can bring your lunch 🥗

When someone is trying to control everything — it’s not always about anxiety.Sometimes it’s about shame.Sometimes it’s a...
10/08/2025

When someone is trying to control everything — it’s not always about anxiety.
Sometimes it’s about shame.
Sometimes it’s about grief.
Sometimes it’s about surviving systems that tried to erase them.

Yes - sometimes it's just a reflex/response to attempt to find balance in one's nervous system.

This post dives deeper: beneath the behaviours we call “controlling” are nervous systems doing their best to hold onto something real.
⚖️ Autonomy.
🧠 Coherence.
🫀 Dignity.
🌱 Regulation.

If you’ve ever felt misunderstood — this might help.

📌 Save or share with someone who needs a gentler lens.

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🌿 Learn more about our counselling approach at the link in bio.

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