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Emily Barrie (she/they)

Registered Psychotherapist #15917

Integrative Somatic Therapist + CYT500

Artist & Song-Carrier

Co-Founder at The Feeling Space

I work with: individuals (15+), relationships, groups

My lens is: neuro-, gender-, culturally-affirming

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

I study and practice: Embodied Ancestral Inquiry, Spiritual Psychotherapy, Integrative Somatic Therapies, Focusing, Full-Spectrum Birthwork, Yoga & Mindfulness, Somatic Bodywork

My special interests are: eco-somatics, cyclical living and menstrual mental health, ancestral somatics, future-dreaming, expressive arts (song writing and producing), community ritual (especially community singing), aliens, neuro-divergence and trance states, Lord of the Rings.​

about em

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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 loving and embodied ways of tending to trauma that were accessible, impactful, and could be shared in community. This brought me to training in embodiment practices such as trauma yoga, birthwork, expressive arts, ritual, ceremony, and ancestral practices in digesting activation and building resilience. It is my great joy to share this work with my community. I take this responsibility quite seriously - which is why I believe it should be done with reverent playfulness, curiosity, and a bold 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, fantasy, folklore, and cycles. When I'm not in the therapy office, I'm probably researching spiritual-somatic-ecological practices, ancestral art-making or music producing, thrifting, snuggling and wrestling my friends, or revelling in the wild world with my partner, kiddo and beloved community.

somatic + creative therapies

coming alive together

www.thefeelingspace.com

feelingspacetherapy@gmail.com

© 2026 by the feeling space

the feeling space is a collective of somatic practitioners, artists, psychotherapists, and friends re-imagining mental healthcare in our communities through embodied, creative and play-based experiential therapies.

 

We work virtually across Ontario, and hold in-person therapy and events in 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 ancestral 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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