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Meet Maxine Bower 🌻 Maxine is a black bi-racial

Meet Maxine Bower 🌻 Maxine is a black bi-racial, queer, cisgender woman, with Afro Caribbean and Nova Scotian roots.

Her practice is client centered, and she views collaboration as an integral component of healing and mental health work. Her practice is also informed by the understanding that healing and repair occurs through relationship with one’s self, with others, with community and with our environment. When working with Maxine, you can expect to work with someone who draws from de-colonial, harm reduction, intersectional feminist and trauma-informed practices and theories.

Maxine uses multi-modal approaches, meaning she often draws from a variety of therapeutic modalities such as cognitive behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, psychodynamic theory, attachment theory, mindfulness, somatic strategies, and solutions-focused strategies.

Maxine also welcomes the inclusion of ancestry, spirituality, and tradition in mental health work, approaching this work with care, enthusiasm, humility and gratitude.

“Your family is your first teacher of the world

“Your family is your first teacher of the world and yourself. We must start here.”

Meet Leslie Kirsh - she is a queer, white, cisgender psychotherapist who works with individuals, parents, and families.

She is trained as a family therapist in Attachment Based Family Therapy, which is foundational to her practice; she is a mother to two children. Leslie works with young people and their parents, adults and their parents, siblings (both youth and adults), as well as complex relationships between friends. In individual therapy, she is curious about the client’s relationship to their family of origin, as well as chosen family, and how those formative relationships have shaped their understanding of themselves and of their world. She uses complementary modalities including: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Therapy.

Leslie approaches her practice from an anti-racist/anti-oppressive and trauma-informed lens, helping clients understand the connections between structural oppressions (e.g. transphobia and racism) and mental well-being. She has extensive experience facilitating support groups for parents who have just learned of their child’s gender identity or sexuality and specializes in working with queer and trans youth.

Repost from @yumisakugawa 〰️ HOW TO HOLD COMPA

Repost from @yumisakugawa 〰️ HOW TO HOLD COMPASSIONATE SPACE FOR YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE EXPERIENCING HEAVY, DIFFICULT, COMPLICATED EMOTIONS 〰️

I am reposting this again to remind myself and to remind anyone who needs to hear it.

As with all my posts, my posts come from my own specific experience and may or may not apply to your singular, unique experience. Take only what works for you and discard the rest. 💛

Meet Kathryn, a queer-, trans- and sex-positive in

Meet Kathryn, a queer-, trans- and sex-positive individual and couples’ therapist!

Her therapeutic approach is founded in anti-oppressive and trauma-informed practices. Her practice is anti- racist, decolonial, and acknowledges intersectionality. As a compassionate witness, she aims to co-create a safe and empowering healing space to experience and understand emotions and somatic experiences. She is trained in several evidence-based modalities of therapy and draws techniques from diverse approaches, dependant on what best suits her clients’ needs.

Kathryn is skilled in working with couples and is passionate about providing a safe and sex- positive space for 2SLGBTQIA couples, including poly, non-monogamous, and open relationships. She is attachment-informed as well as fetish, BDSM and kink-informed. She has experience in supporting individuals navigating various challenges, including but not limited to trauma, gender and sexual identity, personal relationships, body image, self-esteem, stress, anxiety, and depression and mood disorders.

What would you tell your younger queer self? ❤️ @jennatennyuk shares their story of queerness & faith ✨
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Each time I tell my story, I write a love letter to my younger queer self.

The one who wrote her silences in hidden notebooks. The one who lived in fear and shame. The one who believed she would never be happy and proud.

It’s Pride month and I have a lot of issues with corporate Pride, and the pinkwashing and rainbow-washing that comes out once a year. Like hello, we’re here and queer all year round!

What are they doing to create safer spaces for us the rest of the year?

But I know the power when our communities come together and resist and celebrate. I know the power of representation and becoming and existing in our queerness. I know our beauty and joy and power.

Happy Pride to all who are celebrating and resisting and showing up each day. I’m proud of us and grateful to exist with you.

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