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Building capacity, community, and collective care for helping professionals
It’s 3pm on a Tuesday. You’ve just had a full day of paperwork or finished back-to-back sessions. A client cried through their entire appointment. Another disclosed something that made your stomach drop. You held it together, nodded, validated, stayed present. You did your job.
Now you’re sitting in your car, or staring at your computer screen, or washing your hands for the third time, and you realize: you’re holding all of it. And no one is holding you.
The Work is Hard. You Shouldn’t Have to Do It Alone.
Whether you’re a physiotherapist, chiropractor, RMT, lawyer, nurse, teacher, therapist, social worker, or non-profit worker—you’re navigating complex emotional landscapes every single day. You support people through hard things. You witness trauma. You manage your own capacity while structures and systems around you weren’t built to support you.
Some of our favourite partnerships so far
Some of our favourite partnerships so far
Some of our favourite partnerships so far
Some of our favourite partnerships so far
What if your team had access to workshops that center anti-oppressive, culturally responsive practice; provide tangible skills you can use immediately; create space for collective learning and community building; and honors the complexity of the work you do?
Each of these workshops were built from real teams & real people, asking for support to make working in our context more sustainable. Check out the workshop and facilitation options below, or reach out to build something unique for you and/or your team, together.
Beyond the Body: Emotional & Mental Health Essentials for Allied Professionals
Emotional & Mental Health Essentials for Allied Professionals
A client starts crying on your table. They apologize, say they don’t know where it came from. You reassure them it’s okay, keep working, but inside you’re thinking: What do I do with this? What do I say? Where’s the line between holding space and overstepping my scope?
You weren’t trained for this. But it keeps happening.
Your clients don’t just bring their bodies to your practice, they bring their anxiety, their grief, their trauma, their stories. Patients open up to you because they trust you. You see the signs: the chronic pain that doesn’t respond to treatment, the tension that won’t release, the disclosures that catch you off guard. You want to support them, but you’re not a therapist. So where’s the line? And how do you respond with care without taking on more than you’re trained to hold?
This two-part workshop series is designed to equip allied health professionals with the emotional and mental health literacy needed to support clients holistically—within your scope. You’ll leave with a comprehensive resource guide tailored to allied health professionals, increased confidence navigating emotional and mental health concerns within your scope, and a plan for integrating these tools into your existing practice.
For: Physiotherapists, occupational therapists, chiropractors, massage therapists (RMTs), kinesiologists, and other body-centered practitioners
Beyond the Body
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As Helping Professionals
You know the signs by now. The Sunday night dread. The way your body tenses when you look at your schedule. The guilt that follows you home after every shift. You tell yourself it’s just a busy season, that you need to practice better self-care, that you should be grateful for the work. But deep down, you know this isn’t sustainable; and you’re tired of pretending it is.
You’re trained to support others through grief and burnout, but rarely given the tools to navigate your own.
Whether you’re managing a full caseload while dealing with your own chronic pain, absorbing clients’ stress day after day, or you’re struggling with the financial pressures of being in this world, while holding space for bodies that carry trauma, or carrying the weight of legal battles, witnessing loss and suffering shift after shift, or pouring into students while running on empty, or stretched across impossible demands with limited resources—the emotional toll is real.
This workshop creates space to explore the intersection of personal and professional grief, understand the systemic roots of burnout (because it’s not just about self-care when the system set up for the house to win), and build sustainable practices that honor your humanity.
For: Therapists, counsellors, social workers, physiotherapists, chiropractors, registered massage therapists (RMTs), kinesiologists, lawyers, nurses, teachers, allied health professionals, community support workers, healthcare teams, non-profit organizations
You started this work because you wanted to make a difference.
But somewhere along the way, it became isolating. Whether you’re working in a non-profit, leading a team, or navigating your role as a helping professional, you’re figuring it out as you go, wondering if anyone else is struggling with the same questions: How do I do this work sustainably? How do I build something that aligns with my values? How do I find my people?
You don’t want to replicate the systems that burned you out or disillusioned you. You want to build something different—something rooted in collective care, mutual aid, and justice. But no one made space to explore the how with you.
We’re told to do the work, serve our communities, and lead with our values—but we’re rarely taught how to do it in ways that sustain us. This workshop is for practitioners and leaders who want to build something different: collaborative structures, referral networks, peer support systems, and teams rooted in collective care, mutual aid, and justice-oriented frameworks.
Activists and mobilizers have been doing this work for generations—building movements, sustaining communities, practicing mutual aid in the face of systemic violence. This workshop draws from those lessons, summarizing and learning from community thought leaders who’ve shown us what collective care looks like in practice.
For: Therapists, helping professionals, organizational leaders, community practitioners, healthcare teams, non-profit organizations, educators, social workers, mobilizers.
Justice-Oriented Praxis for Teams
MA, RCC-ACS (she/her)
I’m an avid explorer of wonder and possibility, aspirational human database for systemic awareness, co-creator with the magic that still manages to survive in this dumpster fire world, lover of all things with faces that probably shouldn’t have faces on it & cat-reel aficionado.
I navigate the world as a cisqueer, working-turned-middle class, straight-sized settler from Hong Kong who lives with chronic pain and ADHD. My ancestors come from roots in Chaozhou and Nanjing, and a lineage of creating sneaky practices to survive necropolitics, and refugeeism.
My work from frontline victim services to clinical counsellor and then to providing clinical supervision and teaching in postgraduate programs kept me curious about what it means to be human in this world, and what it means to be well in a world that’s so unwell.
For the last decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with folx resisting multiple systems of oppression, which often manifests as being impacted by the criminal punishment system, addictions, and relational trauma.
And now? I founded and run Venturous Counselling and Reflecting on Justice, a virtual community for therapists to unlearn systemic oppression together through free resources, a community membership, and various training programs. As well as co-founded and co-run Prospect Counselling, a Queer, POC-led, radical training practice that redirects proceeds from services to provide further training so that SDQTBIPOC+ communities can access justice-oriented counselling, while funding projects for collective healing within communities. I am also part of the operations team at Healing in Colour and clinically supervise various local non-profit agencies and group practices.
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Q&A
Absolutely. While I offer three core workshop topics, I’m happy to tailor content, examples, and frameworks to fit your team’s context and goals.
Yes! Many organizations benefit from a series of workshops or follow-up sessions to deepen learning and support implementation. Let’s discuss what would work best for your team.
Reach out anyway! I may be able to accommodate smaller groups or connect you with other organizations for a collaborative workshop.
Not at all. While some content is tailored to therapists and counsellors, the workshops are designed and have been facilitated for a wide range of helping professionals—physiotherapists, chiropractors, RMTs, lawyers, nurses, teachers, social workers, allied health practitioners, community support workers, non-profit organizations, and organizational leaders.
Start by scheduling a free 30-minute consultation or emailing me directly. We’ll discuss your team’s needs, workshop options, and logistics to find the best fit.
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