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is an embodied spiritual care centre  exploring the direct spiritual connection available to us through the body

 

We are a body-based psychotherapy clinic practicing online across Ontario. Our purpose is to invite you into direct contact with your own inner teacher, healer and guide. 

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Through land, body, and spirit-based practices, we work to resolve separation and step deeper into purpose, connection, and vitality through the body - so that you can be who you came here to be. Our world needs those gifts that only you can offer.

ways we work

A body-based and spirit-centered approach to:

Somatic Psychotherapy

Online across Ontario for individuals (18+), partners and families

Parental + Family Support

Online + in-person support for families navigating neuro-divergence, birth, postpartum

Spiritual Emergence

Experiential spiritual coaching available online across Canada for individuals 18+

Spiritually-Integrated and Somatic approaches for working with:

  • 2SLGBTQIA+ and Queer identity

  • ADHD/Autism and neuro-diversity

  • Ancestral practices & intergenerational trauma repair

  • Anxiety, depression, collapse, burnout

  • Chronic stress & urgency

  • Cultural resilience & embodiment

  • Ecological & cultural grief​

  • Family care for ADHD/Autism/PDA/neuro-divergence

  • Grief, loss, death, dying, change

  • Identity: shifts, changes, inquiries, loss thereof​

  • Menstrual Mental Health + Cyclical Living

  • Nervous-System informed parenting

  • Parental & Perinatal Mental Health 

  • Pregnancy, postpartum and reproductive care 

  • Relationship skills for couples and families

  • Self-compassion and mindfulness

  • Sex, sexuality and embodied life-force

  • ​Shame and self-criticism

  • Spiritual emergence and embodiment

  • Trauma repair & resilience​

meet emily

Our Founder + Clinical Director

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emily barrie (she/her) MA, RP

somatic therapist, researcher and embodiment teacher specializing in spiritual emergence, neurodivergence, and the sacredness of the body

Registered Psychotherapist #15917

Integrative Somatic Therapist + Bodyworker

500hr RYT: Yoga for Trauma; Perinatal/Menstrual Yoga

Birth, Postpartum + Perinatal Support Worker

Embodied Ecologian + Divinities Researcher

I work with: individuals (18+), relationship constellations, families, groups

My lens is: spiritually-oriented, trauma-focused, neuro-, gender-, culturally-affirming

My work is: trauma-centred, somatic (body-based), experiential, ecological, attachment-focused, arts-based, playful, spiritually-integrative, justice-oriented, client-focused

I study and practice: Spiritual Psychotherapy, Integrative Somatic Therapies, Focusing, Embodied Ancestral Inquiry, Full-Spectrum Birthwork and Perinatal/Parental Support, Yoga & Mindfulness, Somatic Bodywork + Touch Therapies, Embodied Theology, Queer Ecology, Cycle Somatics, Autism/ADHD/PDA-affirming therapies.

My special interests are: eco-somatics, cyclical living and menstrual mental health, ancestral transpersonal practices, future-dreaming, expressive arts (song writing and producing), community ritual, neuro-divergence and trance states, folklore + fiction.​

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a bit about emily

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My psychotherapy practice is rooted years of intentional meandering in creative arts, folklore, transpersonal somatics, grief work, and community justice organizing. After being diagnosed with PTSD in my teens, I set my heart to finding compassionate ways to repair trauma that were accessible, impactful, and could be shared in community. This brought me to training in embodiment practices like trauma yoga, birthwork, expressive arts, ritual, ceremony, and ancestral practices in digesting activation (trauma) and building resilience. As I have integrated the difficult parts of my story, I have felt space open up within me to begin to experience my body as a tool for communing with the Sacred. I hope that through our work together, you can begin to access the Sacred through your own senses too. I take my responsibility in this work quite seriously - which is why I believe it should be done with reverent playfulness, curiosity, and a commitment to the joyful disruption of systems which are no longer habitable for us.

 

In my personal life, I am an artist and musician, a parent, a nature-lover, an Earth-based spiritual practitioner, and a neurodivergent (autistic) nerd who loves all things magic, folklore, and cycles. I'm currently pursuing a second MA in Divinities with a focus on ecstatic states of spiritual union and the sensory body as a tool of divine communication. When I'm not in the office, I'm probably researching spiritual-somatic-ecological practices, reading the biographies of the female saints, engaging in art-making or music producing, thrifting, snuggling and wrestling my friends, or revelling in the wild world with my partner, kiddo and beloved community.​​​​​

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somatics of the sacred

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We work virtually across Ontario from Thadinadonnih - Mohawk for "the place where they built" - colonially called Guelph, ON. We operate on vital ecological homeland to many humans and more-than-human beings and ecosystems - near the place where the Umnemosa River (Missisauga for "black dog" or "dead dog") meets the Speed River. This land is the home of the Chonnonton (Neutral) and Haudenosaunee First Peoples, and is part of the Between-the-Lakes purchase (Treaty 3) with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We acknowledge that lands and bodies are not neutral, and are shaped by the stories of those who came before us. We seek to honour these stories and repair harm held within them from the historical and ongoing impacts of colonization, land theft, assimilation, and racial injustice that inhabit our bodies and patterns of relating.  

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