Many therapists are feeling a quiet but persistent call.
A call to deepen their practice. To move beyond pathology. To hold the complexity of individual healing within the larger contexts of culture, community, and the natural ecology.
Many wisdom traditions have long understood the body as our best teacher, as a portal to a deep sense of sacred belonging. Contemporary culture has often separated us from these ways of knowing, privileging cognition over embodiment and individualism over relationship. An animist worldview invites us to remember that the land, the seasons, plants, ancestors, and the more-than-human world are not simply metaphors or resources, but participants in the ecology of healing.
Returning is an eight-month supervision journey for therapists who are ready to deepen their practice through embodied presence, ethical sacred inquiry, and a decolonizing, relational lens.
Together we will explore how an attachment and somatic framework can be woven with ancient ways of knowing—honouring both science and mystery, evidence and direct experience, discernment and intuition. We will cultivate practices that support us in becoming more deeply rooted therapists: practitioners who can accompany clients not only through their wounds, but toward a deeper experience of belonging within themselves, their communities, and the living world.
As we journey together through the seasons, the cycles of the natural world will become part of our curriculum. We will learn with the changing rhythms of the land, inviting seasonal reflection, plant connection, ritual, and embodied practices that help us remember our place within a larger ecology of relationship.
Throughout the program we will explore:
– Somatic & experiential practices
– Ethical approaches for integrating sacred dimensions of healing into clinical work.
– Navigating ritual and ancestral connection in therapy
– Developing clear relationships with the larger ecology, including energetic hygeine, & guardianship/ stewardship within therapeutic practice.
This is a journey of remembering.
Remembering the body as teacher.
Remembering relationship as medicine.
Remembering that healing is both personal and collective.
Remembering that we belong to a living world.
Details:
Fridays 10am-12pm OCTOBER 2026 – JUNE 2027:
October 9th, November 6th, December 4th, January 8th, February 5th, March 5th, April 2nd, May 7th, June 4th
Cost: $995
To book a 15 minute 1:1 Consult with Sarah to see if this supervision journey is a fit for you, please contact Sarah here.
1:1 Supervision with Sarah
Process-oriented supervision for new counsellors and experienced.
Supervision with Sarah might be for you if:
~ You want to continue to develop your trauma-Informed skills in creating a consent-based therapeutic alliance and safeness
~ You value a validating compassionate container and collaborative approach
~ You are curious about incorporating Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) into your work with clients
~ You are interested in deepening somatic regulation & grounding practices in your sessions
~ You want to take further steps with somatic practices beyond just the question “Where do you feel that in your body?”
~ You want to further cultivate a therapeutic framework that takes into account cultural context: individual distress relating to dominant culture pathologies
~ You are curious how to incorporate nature connection or emergent ritual to your clients’ overall wellness
~ You are curious how ancestral connection could be an important aspect of individual and cultural healing
Individual Supervision: $190.48 for 1hr + 15 minutes (plus GST)
About Your Supervisor:
Sarah is a Master Therapeutic Counsellor (MTC) and Registered Counselling Supervisor (RCS) with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT), as well as a Certified Emotionally-Focused (EFT) Therapist.
Thoughout her nearly two decades in clinical counselling practice, Sarah has gained extensive experience supporting a wide range of clients, with particular expertise working with parents, care-givers, facilitators, leaders and change-makers, with a special focus on embodiment and nervous system attunement. Her approach is grounded in attachment science, somatic awareness, feminism, and a transpersonal lense. In addition to this, her passion for Nature-Based Therapy (NBT) and emergent self-design ritual are incorporated into the therapeutic process when appropriate.