Online Psychotherapy for Deeper Healing — That Lasts

​No one lives in a vacuum, and neither does our mental health... In the west, we tend to still be entrenched in cultural worldviews that understand humans to exist as individuals without much mutual impact to one another or their environments. More and more western scientific research understands this to be false, while traditional ways of knowing have understood the interconnectedness – the wholeness – of all things for a very long time. As we cannot understand our mental health by only looking at our brain and must include the interwovenness of the whole bodily system, we also cannot understand our health as an individuals without considering our lives within the living organisms of the collective, of our natural world. This includes systems of oppression, our intersections of identities, our relationships, our ansestors and collective traumas and triumphs. I am a caucasian (mixed European heritage), neurodivergent, cis-gendered, queer, able-bodied woman, and was born, raised, educated, and have worked on the traditional Turtle Island territories (aka Canada) of the Anishinaabe, Wyandot, Haudenosaunee, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations peoples, under the treaties of  Treaty 3, 13A, 19, The Haldimand Treaty, and the Williams Treaty. I currently work primarily online, based between the traditional territories of the Muzziena Bedouin Tribe of South Sinai, and the Irish lands of the Republic of Ireland with longstanding Indigenous roots. As a practitioner, I recognize the vital importance of land and its history for therapy participants, my communities, and my own life. As a therapist, I often incorporate nature-based practices. As an ally I have a responsibility to honour the stories, peoples, and creatures of the lands we occupy, our interconnectedness within the natural world. I welcome my duty to continuously self-reflect and maintain relationship and ongoing education in efforts to seek less harm in the ever-present impacts of capitalism and white supremacy. My practice seeks to be trauma-informed, socially just, accessible, culturally responsive, rooted in efforts to decolonize the practice of psychotherapy. I am open to accountability in these efforts. Resources: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17465709 Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths, Rupert Ross https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/392410/indigenous-healing-by-rupert-ross/9780143191100 Decolonizing Therapy, Dr. Jennifer Mullan https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/ Territory Acknowledgement https://native-land.ca/resources/territory-acknowledgement/