Erin Brown, MSW, RSW

03/26/2025

Send me a message or email erinbrowncounselling@gmail.com to register

02/21/2025

A collage I made a number of years ago. I look at it every few years, and always see something new!

02/14/2025

🧘🏻‍♀️ Join me in Lakefield this Spring for a special mindfulness and expressive arts group for moms (of any aged children) and caregivers.

❤️ This 6-week group is my love letter to moms and caregivers.

💖 Sliding Scale Pricing

👉 Email to register: erinbrowncounselling@gmail.com

02/14/2025

Join me this Spring in Lakefield, ON for mindfulness meditation and expressive arts for Moms (of any aged children) and caregivers. Sliding scale pricing. Email to register: erinbrowncounselling@gmail.com

Keep your fire’s embers burning 🔥 🧘🏻‍♀️

02/02/2025

08/05/2024

I am so excited to welcome another amazing presenter! Everyone say hi to Erin 👋

Erin Brown, MSW, RSW is a Registered Social Worker with a part-time private practice in Peterborough, Ontario. Postpartum mental health and well-being became her practice focus in 2013 after hearing about mental health service gaps in the Peterborough and Kawarthas area as the Social Worker at the Pediatric Outpatient (POP) Clinic, Peterborough Regional Health Centre, in its formative years. This focus combined Erin's prior work in healthcare and mental health since 2002, including birth planning and postpartum mental health care with incarcerated women. It also aligned with her journey of being a new Mom at the time, and her own experiences of the intersections of adjustment to Motherhood, mental health, trauma and impossible expectations on women. Over the past 11 years, Erin's practice with Moms and gender-expansive parents has transformed from crisis management and mental health stabilization to more broadly include the centering of individual well-being, re/discovery of the Self within the Mothering and parenting journey, trauma processing, mindfulness for Moms and primary parents, and healthy boundaries with narcissistic family members. Erin has 2 children who are now approaching and entering their teen years. She is an outdoors enthusiast, spiritual seeker, lover of beach days and cheer Mom.

She can be found at:
erinbrowncounselling.ca

erinbrowncounselling@gmail.com

I am so excited to have Erin join our Mini Movers group! She will be facilitating some amazing conversations!

07/06/2024

My Top Five Highlights from the 2024 Self-Reg Summer Symposium this past week at

#5
Learning more about neurobiology, the science of stress, equity, inclusion, educator mental health and healing spaces.

#4
Dreaming Big Dreams about well-being in education, social work and health care.

#3
Being inspired by incredible, brilliant and kind practitioners, educators and researchers.

#2
Being immersed in a culture of self-reg for four days (in-person)!

#1
Putting self-care and self-awareness first. Eat, move, rest, talk, be social, be contemplative, get fresh air, etc as needed

05/26/2024

Sensorimotor Art-Based Therapy

I recently completed training in using this approach - which aims to address trauma and the nervous system without relying on the “story”. Because sometimes there is no complete conscious memory of trauma, but the body carries it anyways. Such as early attachment trauma or traumas occurring in infancy and early life. Also, traumas that have occurred when there is a lack of waking consciousness or memories are lost, fragmented. And even when there is memory, there is often more to the story, in our body/nervous system experience, than the words that tell of our experience and how we have been effected by traumas that may occur in a single moment of impact or by being chipped away at over long periods of time.

These are one series of many of my own guided bilateral (drawing with both hands) drawings that express impulses in my body and nervous system (1-2) and then offer a repairing response (3) and a spontaneous outcome (4). I can’t really tell you what it all exactly means - but I can tell you it helped me to move something within and allow a nurturing response and a healing reaction.

I’m working at bringing sensorimotor art-based therapeutic work into my practice. To me, it is an effective way of going deeper and Re-Membering.

05/14/2024

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Let’s go. Our first group ❤️ We are THRILLED to announce Perinatal x Mental Health. Learn about perinatal mental health and wellness, for women and gender diverse people who want to learn more and connect with others along their journey. Because you are not alone. Run by Emma Duke, MSW, RSW, this 8 week virtual group meets once a week for 1.5 hours. And thanks to .nl we can now offer a reduced rate, $300 per person! From pregnancy until 18 months postpartum, all are welcome. But only 12 spots are available for this first ever group, so email for next steps soon!! Www.prakashpathways.com prakashpsychiatry@gmail.com .counselling .counsellingnl

05/12/2024

One of my favourite pictures of my kids… They have truly changed my life. Maisey is demonstrating that fierce Mothering spirit!

To all those thinking about Mothers and Mothering today. What a wild ride it is ❤️💔❤️