EMBS Wellness

EMBS Wellness Mental health therapy provided by Emily Bagot-Sideen, BA, BSW, RSW.

I'm a registered social worker with 10 years of experience in healthcare and social settings. With several years of working in child welfare & psychiatry, mental health and addictions, my therapy mission is to create a safe, non-judgmental space for person-centred care and honouring your lived experience. My practice vision is to offer accessible services from a critical perspective to all individuals seeking therapy, acknowledging our personal responsibility and accountability to create a better future, as well as the systemic issues and challenges of just being a human in our fast-paced world.

As a current member of the GAM executive board, I have some tickets for the upcoming social hosted by . Feel free to DM ...
02/21/2026

As a current member of the GAM executive board, I have some tickets for the upcoming social hosted by . Feel free to DM or email me at emilybagotsideen@gmail. com to purchase ❤️🖤💛🤍💚

12/12/2025

Gentle reminders:
❄️ The end of 2025 is near; your benefits might be resetting! If you haven’t used them, do it! You pay for them (this applies to therapy, massage, physio, dental, and so on).
❄️ Holidays are weird and can bring up everything on the multidimensional spectrum between joy and sadness. Take the time to talk, vent, cry, debrief, breathe through whatever is coming up and is asking to be processed.

Reintroduction/Fall Update (in pictures): People often ask me how I balance my work as a therapist with my personal life...
12/11/2025

Reintroduction/Fall Update (in pictures): People often ask me how I balance my work as a therapist with my personal life. This feels like an apt topic where (re)introducing myself is a good way of sharing the answer. I’ve been a social worker for almost 7 years now and working in social services and community for 12. It’s been a long lesson in balancing my work and life, not self-abandoning or giving up parts of myself. Over the years, I’ve faced different periods of burnout that have taken me out of the game for a while, some longer than others, and that have taught me unforgettable & invaluable lessons. I stopped believing in perfection and practicing non-judgment and radical acceptance. Practicing discipline and knowing (my) spirit is important. I have put knowing and honouring myself first, knowing this is the first step in knowing and honouring others. Echoed to me in a session recently, I was told, “to be loved is to be known” and this is true for self and others. I treat life and its gifts like medicine and nourishment. Music and poetry, among other forms of art, are medicine, offering connection to others near and far in time and space. Being close to others, physically and emotionally, sharing song and breaking bread is medicine. Good food and laughter is medicine. Remembering my loved ones and that grief is a portal offering time travel through memories is medicine. Listening and learning with discernment gives me strength. Smudging, moving, reminding my body we are strong is medicine. Smushing my dogs’ and babies’ faces is medicine. Life over the last month feels fast-moving, while dragging on some days, but I look and see that there was balance and there was medicine. You can see some of it in these photos 🍂 ❄️

Therapy is place to show up and witness yourself with the company of a therapist. Regardless of the modalities they’re t...
12/10/2025

Therapy is place to show up and witness yourself with the company of a therapist. Regardless of the modalities they’re trained in, the relationship between your therapist and you is part of the process. It’s a container that offers reflections and opportunities to explore the internal and external experiences of our lives. Giving yourself time to be held in moments of discomfort, to notice the pieces in the kaleidoscope that it is you, to allow yourself to be seen is what any one of us deserves. Sitting with our innermost selves and developing trust in ourselves in therapy can help any one of us take this new confidence out into the world, to work towards our goals and to deepen our relationships with the self and others. What are some of your goals and challenges you’d like to meet with a conviction and trust in your own abilities and capacity?

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of joining the Guyanese Association of Manitoba () 🇬🇾 It’s now the pleasure of our ...
11/17/2025

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of joining the Guyanese Association of Manitoba () 🇬🇾 It’s now the pleasure of our board and entertainment committee to host our first Christmas party this year, in addition to our 55+ luncheon occurring first in November 19th. All are welcome to the GAM Family Christmas Party on December 7th, from 3-6PM . Please RSVP to guyanamanitoba@gmail.com, we look forward to seeing you!

Here’s a little peak into my new office space (home). My family helped me move in over the weekend and I’ve been adding ...
11/04/2025

Here’s a little peak into my new office space (home). My family helped me move in over the weekend and I’ve been adding finishing touches (or trying to) while keeping afloat with paperwork! If I haven’t replied to your email yet, I will soon 😊 but I’m enjoying this new space and the people I’ve met already! I’m looking forward to welcoming clients to this new space in the coming days and expanding my practice!
Bonus photo of me and my nephew on Halloween 🎃 I love me a unibrow!

I’M MOVING! and expanding my office hours! I’ll be moving to 303-960 Portage Avenue in November and working in-person Mo...
10/24/2025

I’M MOVING! and expanding my office hours! I’ll be moving to 303-960 Portage Avenue in November and working in-person Monday to Friday, with more evening hours and select Saturdays! I will be reaching out to clients via email and Owl Practice in the last week of November with more details and the scheduler will be open on October 31st for folks to book online. I will be shifting away from Friday evenings in the near future.

It’s October 7. The world has changed so much in the last couple years, but I suppose still on course with what already ...
10/07/2025

It’s October 7. The world has changed so much in the last couple years, but I suppose still on course with what already was. These are the other chapters from the Tao Te Ching that have sat heavy with my heart and mind this last week.

It’s October 7th. These are the other chapters of Tao Te Ching that have been heavy on my heart and mind recently.
10/07/2025

It’s October 7th. These are the other chapters of Tao Te Ching that have been heavy on my heart and mind recently.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Now offering virtual sessions to folks in Saskatchewan! It’s exciting to expand my practice on the prairie...
10/04/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT: Now offering virtual sessions to folks in Saskatchewan! It’s exciting to expand my practice on the prairies 🌾

UPDATED: I’ve changed my sliding scale structure and removed the idea of limiting sessions after feedback and realizing ...
10/02/2025

UPDATED: I’ve changed my sliding scale structure and removed the idea of limiting sessions after feedback and realizing that this didn’t fulfill the need I want to help meet. As a harm reduction therapist and one who values decolonizing and liberating mental health practices, AND someone who has benefitted from sliding scales, it’s important to me to offer sliding scale services. If you’d like to see me as your therapist on a sliding scale basis, I encourage you to ask me more questions about the framework I have in place to support YOU and the sustainability of my practice. People come to therapy for a variety of reasons and allowing the possibility to limit sessions is meant to be beneficial, not create a hard and fast rule about how long you can receive therapy. Since therapy isn’t a one-size-fits-all, I want to honour your own pace and your own needs. Remember, therapy is a resource and a tool in your toolkit, but you have the power to make the changes you want to see in your life.
Contact me for a free consultation and to review my framework around sliding scale services more fully.

I’ll be honest, I haven’t worn an orange shirt for Orange Shirt Day in a couple years since listening to some Indigenous...
10/01/2025

I’ll be honest, I haven’t worn an orange shirt for Orange Shirt Day in a couple years since listening to some Indigenous friends express that it can feel like a hollow gesture after now, 10 years since 94 Calls to Action published by . It’s not perfect, nor am I, but I try to do other things. Read a book, have a moment of silence, pray, smudge, participate in ceremony, deliver wood for sacred fires when I have the chance. I try to know my place. Yesterday, I went to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights—somewhere I haven’t been since I was in the middle of my social work degree. I didn’t get far in the exhibit, as my attending pal is fearful of heights, so moving up through the museum via ramps or the elevator wasn’t feasible past a certain point. There was a part of me that was relieved. Like last time, I felt a deep heaviness moving through the museum, but I noticed that I am a different person, in an entirely new body, made up of mostly new cells that weren’t there last time. I felt dissociated, a testament, maybe, to how much I’ve awakened and experienced living at an intersection I couldn’t quite see when I was in my early 20s, before I experienced and witnessed so much state violence resulting in the murders of family and members in my community. I maintain hope, because to not have any is an indicator of unchecked privilege and a belief that we can continue living and acting in harmful ways towards Earth and her people.

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962 Westminster Avenue
Winnipeg, MB
R3G1B7

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 2:30pm
3:30pm - 6am
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 2:30pm
3:30pm - 6pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm

Telephone

+12048182817

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