Joyful Resistance is an autistic led, values-based healing practice. We work with neurodivergent (ND) clients including autistic, learning disabled, gifted, AuDHDers, ADHDers, and those with divergent (often sensitive) sensory systems. 

Our approach is collaborative, non-violent and responsive to the goals and needs of each person—not rooted in tropes, stereotypes or pathologizing models of who we are. Healing journeys are rooted in our autistic/ND wisdom and insight, enabling reconnection to your gifts and moving far beyond basic affirmation.

ND health is threatened by neurodisablist and colonial harm, not by our neurotype. Neurodisablism (along with racism, cisheterosexism and on and on) causes individual and collective trauma which is systemic and ongoing. We work gently, safely and effectively with the specific ways that stress and trauma impact ND bodies, nervous systems and families. This opens up space to move from activation to action.

We live and work primarily in Tkaronto (the place on the water where the trees are standing) near the banks of the Carrying Place. Tkaronto, colonially known as Toronto, is the unceded territory of many nations: the Anishnaabek—including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and now home to many diverse First Nations, Métis and Inuit Peoples. Tkaronto is also home to Black descendants of many African nations who were violently displaced on this continent through the transatlantic slave trade. 

These territories are covered by the Gdoonaagidnaa—the Dish With One Spoon Wampum—a treaty created by Anishnaabek and Haudenosaunee confederacies which establishes a shared commitment to protect and nurture the land and live in peace together. 

We honour Indigenous sovereignty, and recognize that truth and reconciliation cannot occur without honesty, accountability and restorative acts by colonial institutions and settlers. This includes ceding colonial power, ending ongoing colonial violence and theft, Indigenous land repatriation, and reparations.