Breathing Bear Belonging

A counselling, consulting & community-focused healing space

  • Individual Counseling

    Every Journey is Unique

    Each person experiences life in their own unique way. In today’s world, we face countless challenges and stressors — but one of the most powerful sources of healing lies in our relationships. This includes the relationship we have with ourselves, with others, with nature, and with the world around us.

    When these connections are nurtured with care and intention, they can become a catalyst for deep, meaningful change. Through this process, growth, healing, and greater well-being become possible.

    Everyone’s healing journey is unique. Through one-on-one counselling and supportive connection, my aim is to walk alongside individuals as they navigate their own path of holistic healing, being, and doing.

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  • Group Counselling & Wellbeing

    Transformation within our communities begins with collective care and solidarity

    By showing up for one another in compassion and connection, we can begin to dismantle stigma and create spaces where healing, dignity, and belonging are possible for all. Group centred support and counselling can help us centre belonging in our stories and walk towards our own healing journey as well as collective healing, as a community.

    This includes standing in intentional relationship with each other. When we honour our stories and honour other peoples stories are often marginalized or "othered" — including BIPOC, 2SLBGQTIA+, Neurodiverse and Disabled kin, people living with mental health challenges or disabilities, and others whose voices have too often been silenced.

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  • Collective Learning & Belonging

    This part of the vision focuses on collective healing through workshops, consultation, research, and trauma-informed ways. I offer tailored sessions rooted in lived experience, ongoing training, community-based and evidence-informed practices—drawing from a range of toolkits, trainings, and community-based approaches.

    I recognize how systemic oppression continues to disrupt our ability to be in good relation—with ourselves, with each other, and with creation. Through spaces that centre awareness, reflection, and care, I hope to support communities in deepening their sense of healing, connection, and belonging.

    Together, we can walk toward wellness on our own terms, and in relation with one another.

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Vision & Roots

In Anishinaabe teachings, the Bear symbolizes healing and medicine. Breathing Bear Belonging is rooted in a vision of restoring life within ourselves and our communities through a journey of wholistic healing—centring physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and relational wellbeing.

We believe that healing happens where we feel a sense of belonging. Breathing Bear Belonging supports both individual healing journeys and collective paths toward community care, reconnection, and resurgence. As we centre growth and the collective return to heart–spirit–mind–body-relational wholeness, we witness the courage and strength within us—the energy that fuels not just survival, but thriving.

As we centre growth and the collective resurgence of heart-spirit-mind-body wholeness, we begin to witness the courage and strength within us the very force that fuels our desire not only to survive, but to thrive.

This vision emerged through many conversations with community, proceded by a dream of a Bear. The Bear was outlined by braided sweetgrass, one strand rainbow-coloured. Beneath its feet grew forget-me-nots, sage, tobacco, and cedar. Roots stretched downward, transforming into people holding hands in a circle around the bear. From its mouth, a breath shaped like a heart flowed.

When we walk the healing path with intention, we walk in wholeness. This path calls us into sacred responsibility: to remember our own voice and worth, and to help others do the same—to support each other’s return to the circle.

We experience healing when we feel

we belong

Healing is a journey, with various paths within

Your story is still unfolding — and there may be beauty and pain within it. The healing space, like you, can evolve over time. What matters most is that it feels right for right now. You are always welcomed to share what may be working and what may not be working.

Healing is a process

Support:

Breathing Bear Belonging welcomes everyone into this space, with special care to uplift underrepresented communities—including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) , 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled, and neurodiverse kin. Our work is grounded in solidarity, reciprocity, and the belief that healing is a collective right

Relationality:

Healing and community are rooted in relationality—held within various relations within of our life which influence of being, knowing, and doing. We hope this vision and our work honour these teachings and reflect the deep interconnection at the heart of individual and collective healing.