Wellness Empowered Counselling & Consulting Services

Wellness Empowered Counselling & Consulting Services We empower others to find hope and joy in living by supporting them in their healing journeys.

01/21/2026

We want to extend our offerings to our local communities and we are preparing for that with intentionality and duty of care! Stay tuned for updates!

MLK was Ubuntu centred. He reminded the world that community is the medicine, justice is a shared responsibility, and si...
01/19/2026

MLK was Ubuntu centred. He reminded the world that community is the medicine, justice is a shared responsibility, and silence is never an option when harm is unfolding in front of us. He taught that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” because what harms one of us ripples through all of us. That is Ubuntu.

He showed us that courage is a practice. He spoke even when he faced opposition. He lived the truth that “our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter,” calling each of us to refuse silence when dignity is at stake.

MLK believed in the Beloved Community, a world rooted in equity, empathy and shared humanity. He reminded us that “I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be,” echoing the Ubuntu truth that your humanity is bound up in mine and mine in yours.

So here is the invitation.

If you believe in humanity, act like it.
If you believe in justice, show up for it.
If you believe in community, nurture it.
If you believe in Ubuntu, live it.

Do one thing today that affirms another person’s dignity.
Greet someone.
Stand up for someone.
Correct misinformation.
Open your heart.
Choose courage over comfort.

MLK taught us that “the time is always right to do what is right.”
Let today be the day you choose action.

01/18/2026

The coaches who hand you business templates often charge more than 10k. We began with none of that, just years of clinical experience and zero business skills. It has been trial and error, learning as we build, refining our craft while it is still under construction. Yet we keep trusting the process. Thank you for the nominations and awards we have received so far. They are a cherry on top. The magic happens behind the scenes in privacy and confidentiality!

01/18/2026

Siyabonga- Asante-Thank you for creating a table long enough and a stage big enough for small businesses across Canada to be celebrated. This is our first award for 2026 and it belongs to our entire village which includes our partners, our collaborators, the communities and individuals whom we serve and hold space to; we are because they are.

Even though we don’t do this work for accolades, we appreciate being seen, acknowledged and celebrated, it fuels us to continue this purpose work of restoring dignity, widening access, and honouring the ancestral call that guides our steps. We remain rooted in Ubuntu, held by community, and grateful for every heart that walks this journey with us.

We are grateful to serve and look forward to continued unlearning, relearning and growing together!

With gratitude
From all of us at Wellness Empowered Inc

We need community circles where we can exhale and offload what we’re carrying, without code-switching, without shrinking...
01/17/2026

We need community circles where we can exhale and offload what we’re carrying, without code-switching, without shrinking ourselves for protection.

For a while now, we’ve been holding space through our virtual affinity supervision and consultation circles, intentionally combating individualism with communal gathering. These circles remind us that healing is not meant to be done alone.

And as always, testimonies don’t lie.

If you’re ready to join us, use the link in our bio to register, or feel free to email or DM with any questions you might have.

Honoured to join for Restoring the Roots of Care: From Awareness to Adaptation. Inspired by Marcus Garvey’s reminder th...
01/16/2026

Honoured to join for Restoring the Roots of Care: From Awareness to Adaptation. Inspired by Marcus Garvey’s reminder that “a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots,” this dialogue invites us to reconnect to lineage, memory, and the ancestral foundations that shape culturally responsive care.

I cannot wait to hold space for this offering as we co-learn, co-witness, and co-heal alongside everyone who joins us for this generous offering.

February 27, 2026
10–11am MT
Register: dradelelafrance.com/roots-of-care

Sankofa grounded. Ubuntu rooted.

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Poster for an online clinician workshop titled “Restoring the Roots of Care: From Awareness to Adaptation,” happening February 27, 2026 from 10–11am MT. Described as a free offering. The background is an orange-to-yellow gradient with a Marcus Garvey quote about roots and culture. Two circular photos appear: Adele Lafrance (She/Her), PhD, smiling in a blue top; and Shayla S. Dube (She/We), MSW, RCSW, smiling, wearing glasses, an ivory top, and a purple beaded necklace. A QR code and the registration link dradelelafrance.com/roots-of-care are shown, along with the Wellness Empowered logo.

My first read of 2026… and what a powerful start.Dr. Dixon Chibanda’s The Friendship Bench is a beautiful reminder of wh...
01/12/2026

My first read of 2026… and what a powerful start.
Dr. Dixon Chibanda’s The Friendship Bench is a beautiful reminder of what many of us grounded in Ubuntu/Unhu already know: healing is relational, communal, and carried through the wisdom of our elders.

It also brought me back to what Rwandese elders shared after the genoc!de, how outside psychologists meant to help were removing people from the nurture and rhythm of their communities and placing them in isolated rooms to speak about trauma. The elders said clearly: that did not help. Healing lives with community, not away from it.

And as someone raised by a grandmother who was not just my grandmother, but a community grandmother, midwife, and healer, I know deeply that community is medicine.

The story of fourteen grandmothers transforming mental health care through the Friendship Bench honours dignity, accessibility, cultural resonance, and the lived expertise our communities have always held.

Ubuntu/Unhu is slowly taking its rightful place on the global map, not as an “alternative,” but as a time-honoured blueprint for collective healing and connection.

I highly recommend this book. I got my copy on Amazon. 📚✨

💔 Our heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to and her husband, Dr. Ivara Esege. There is no pain as deep as losing...
01/11/2026

💔 Our heartfelt condolences and prayers go out to and her husband, Dr. Ivara Esege. There is no pain as deep as losing your own child. As a community, we share this loss and grieve alongside them.

Many of us have witnessed our own families grieve sudden and unimaginable loss. We know how disorienting, lifelong, and earth-shifting this kind of grief can be.

Chimamanda and her family lost their 21-month-young twin son, , on January 7th. Reports note a fatal sedation error and lack of proper monitoring at a Lagos hospital. She also lost both of her parents in 2020 and 2021. This is cumulative grief.

Because Nkanu was a twin, every milestone the surviving twin reaches will hold both joy and an unspoken ache. Grief like this is not linear. It is layered. It is lifelong.

We hold the unimaginable reality of leaving home with two children and returning with one. No parent should ever know that pain.

May Chimamanda, Dr. Esege, their surviving child, and their community be held in deep love, tenderness, and steady support. Community cannot remove the pain, but it can soften the sharpest edges of grief.

In being the change we wish to see in the wellness and healing field, we are expanding our reach and creating a communit...
01/10/2026

In being the change we wish to see in the wellness and healing field, we are expanding our reach and creating a community space where clinicians can gather, reflect, and co-learn together.
The Village Table was created with the understanding that while affinity groups offer necessary refuge, validation, and healing, they are not meant to become permanent homes. They are places of restoration — not destinations of isolation.

Our hope is that, with time, clinicians who have found safety and belonging in affinity spaces will feel grounded and supported enough to return to broader professional spaces with confidence, clarity, and a strengthened sense of self.
The Village Table reflects that vision.

It is an intercultural, Ubuntu-centred supervision space where clinicians of all identities, cultures, and practice backgrounds can drop in to:
• reflect collectively
• build cultural humility
• practise curiosity across difference
• deepen relational accountability
• strengthen our shared commitment to equity in the wellness field

Because when we heal in community, we widen the circle for everyone. Check out the poster for email and use link via bio for registration

Dear melanin- lean, vanilla cousins of European descents who are Racialized as White - RAS (yes whiteness is also a prod...
01/10/2026

Dear melanin- lean, vanilla cousins of European descents who are Racialized as White - RAS (yes whiteness is also a product of Racialization), this digital clinical supervision offering is yours.

After 22 years in Canada, working alongside many well-meaning clinicians, I have witnessed how YTness, power, and Eurocentric norms shape helping professions. Many serve communities historically denied racial equity while leaning on expert-driven, saviouristic approaches instead of cultural humility.

Over time, clinicians began asking to be guided with the same reflective and accountable approach that shapes my own practice. I work with those ready to be uncomfortable without being shamed, coddled, or centred. This is how the / Circle emerged — a space for intentional unlearning, relational accountability, and communal responsibility.

Wazungu is used in Kenya and neighbouring regions to refer to “wanderers” or “people who circle around,” often applied to people racialized as white who entered African regions as explorers before unleashing col0n!al agendas. In isiNdebele we say , and in Shona, .

The name offers a glimpse into what it feels like to be placed into a category you did not choose — something racially marginalised people navigate daily. It is not an insult. It is an invitation into awareness, humility, and the discomfort required for growth.

I hold space that is accountable without shaming. While some behaviours DiAngelo identifies are accurate, I do not use the term white fragility. We will unpack whyt privilege, whyt innocence, avoidance, emotional reactions, and the patterns that surface during unlearning.

This circle is co-created, rooted in relational accountability and communal solidarity — not performative allyship and not colonial hierarchies.

Signed by your melanin-rich sibling, ready to support your journey from saviourism to solidarity, from “safe” to brave and accountable, and from performativity to relational accountability.

Register via the link on our bio or email us as per poster! We look forward to helping you foster culturally and psychologically safer spaces for equity denied folks.

Sawubona, Oki, Âba wathtech, Dadanast’ada, Tân’si, Tanisi, Bonjour, HaluuqagitGreetings to all planetary siblings and co...
01/09/2026

Sawubona, Oki, Âba wathtech, Dadanast’ada, Tân’si, Tanisi, Bonjour, Haluuqagit

Greetings to all planetary siblings and cousins who are Indigenous to the Americas.

Did you know that Indigenous clinicians must obtain a clinical designation and pass a four hour colonial exam before they are allowed to work with their own people using the medicine they already carry? These are the systems that continue to block Indigenous healers from supporting their communities.

The Indigenous Supervision Circle was created in response to this ongoing harm. I have witnessed Indigenous healers, carriers of ancestral wisdom and cultural medicine, being told they cannot care for their own kin unless they meet Western requirements that ignore Indigenous knowledge.

I am not an expert in Indigenous healing. I am a planetary sibling and an uninvited guest on these stolen lands, practicing deep cultural humility. I walk with an Indigenous Elder and mentor who guides me, and I remain a supervisor in supervision because growth requires accountability.

The only reason I am recognised as a provider for Indigenous communities is because I passed that same four hour colonial exam that measures neither cultural safety nor relational accountability. Meanwhile many Indigenous practitioners are still restricted from doing the work they have always been rooted in.

This circle is a harm reducing bridge that supports Indigenous clinicians until they can practise freely with and for their own people without colonial gatekeeping. My hope is that NHIB will allow the Indigenous supervisees I work with to support their communities while under supervision. I am also working toward a nonprofit arm to make these services even more accessible.

If you are an Indigenous clinician seeking culturally humble supervision, community, or support, this space is here for you. You already carry the medicine.

Registration link is in my bio.
You are welcome to email communitycircles@wellnessempowered.com

Ngiyabonga, Thank you, Hai Hai, Marci, Kukwstsétsemc, Wela’lin

Dear of , you are invited to an intersectional, identity-affirming, trauma-responsive, and equity-centred supervision...
01/08/2026

Dear of , you are invited to an intersectional, identity-affirming, trauma-responsive, and equity-centred supervision space where your experiences, stories, and cultural wisdom are honoured. This is a space where your nervous system will refuse to code-switch the moment it recognises that you are held and humanised with compassion, dignity, and cultural understanding.

I was holding space for four individuals of heritage, and I extended an invitation for them to meet and see if they wished to continue the journey in community with each other. That is how the UMOJA Circle was organically formed.

Currently, we have two therapists of Somali heritage and one of Ethiopian heritage. The fourth member has now secured the hours needed for their clinical application, which means we have room for a couple more therapists who are seeking an identity affinity space where looking like you is not minorised but is the norm.

I would like to thank the colleagues who have handpicked me and mentioned my name in many rooms. Today, I shine my light on , one of the founding members of this group. Thank you for trusting me, for endorsing me, and for the grace you extend as we co-learn and grow together. You have mentioned my name in many rooms, and I want to thank you publicly and express my sincere gratitude for the sisterhood.

This group meets every third Tuesday of the month at 9:30 AM MST | 11:30 AM EST, and members have co-created it to be a safe space, something we are constantly cultivating and nurturing.

To join circle, please use the link in my bio to complete the registration form. You may also DM me or use the email on the poster if you have questions or would like support.

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4927 51 Avenue
Vegreville, AB
T9C1T9

Opening Hours

Tuesday 5:30am - 8:30pm
Wednesday 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Saturday 11:30am - 3:30pm

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+15878042116

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