Our Work

Working at the intersections of identity, marginalization and trauma

We work with adults, children, youth and families of all ages. Choose from a range of supports including psychotherapy, somatics, groups, sensory and accommodations planning, and animal assisted therapy. More than just relief—reconnect with self and access greater peace and meaning.

Rigorous Practice

  • Healing models developed by and for autistic/ND communities
  • Rooted in leading edge research, lived experience and cultural knowledge
  • Integrating sensorimotor psychotherapy, neurobiological, polyvagal, relational, psychodynamic, feminist, and decolonizing approaches
  • Attuned to your unique journey—shaped by identity, culture and context
  • Responsive to the specific needs of your nervous system

Ethical Practice

  • Non-violent and depathologizing
  • Resists all forms of conversion “therapy”, including autistic conversion (e.g. Applied Behavioural Therapy [ABA], Intensive Behavioural Intervention [IBI] etc.), sexuality and gender conversion, deaf conversion, cultural/colonial conversion etc.
  • Anti-colonial, anti-racist, anti-oppressive and justice based
  • Queer and trans competent, sex/poly/kink/body positive, sex-worker allied
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We facilitate healing work on a continuum that spans:

Functional Support

  • Accommodations planning
  • Sensory processing & overload
  • Somatic resourcing
  • Burnout, overwork, UN/masking
  • Support for autistic/ND leaders, professionals, educators
  • Tech and video game overuse
  • Child, youth and family support; parent support
  • Navigating life transitions
  • Advocacy

Trauma Recovery

  • Individual and intergenerational trauma
  • Structural / collective trauma
  • Depression, anxiety, di/stress, dissociation
  • Moral injury
  • Neurodisablist social injury, marginalization, bullying, scapegoating
  • Shame
  • Isolation and loneliness
  • Educational and workplace discrimination, harassment and violence
  • Individual and collective grief

Identity & Spirit

  • Deepening connection to self, others and community
  • Self-compassion; self-acceptance; self-esteem
  • Gender diversity, identity and emergence
  • Queer, kink, poly identity and sexualities
  • Existential threat (e.g. climate crisis, genocide, rise of fascism)
  • Meaning making; faith practices (including secular)
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Support for Children, Youth and Families

We are committed to supporting autistic/ND families, children and youth. Our approach is shaped by decades of learned and lived experience including: child development research, policy and advocacy experience; leading edge neuroscience; and lived experience of autistic parenting, AND parenting autistic/ND children. 

We work with families seeking effective non-violent alternatives to harmful mainstream interventions, including behavioural and conversion “therapy”. Our children's neurotypes are not the problem! Let’s work together to support them to thrive in all their gifts and wonder.

Areas of support include:

  • Sensory and accommodations needs (e.g. home, school, recreation)
  • Disablism, discrimination, bullying, social isolation
  • Struggles with mental health and wellbeing
  • Tech and videogame overuse
  • Family, parent AND parenting support for all neurotypes (and mixed neurotype families)
  • Family friendly options (e.g. animal assisted therapy, in-home and weekend appointments)