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BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre

Anti-racist, intersectional feminist and culturally-informed healing and wellness for BIPOC folks.

12/14/2025

As we move through the holiday season, it can feel especially important to reconnect with our inner child, the part of us that holds wonder, creativity, playfulness, and tenderness 🤎

The holidays often stir up nostalgia and emotional complexity. Returning to our inner child can help us move through this season with more compassion, grounding, and gentleness.

This year, we invite you to pause and check in with yours…
✨ Did they have a safe place to fall apart? To just be themselves?
✨ Did they have a physically and emotionally safe home to land in?
✨ Did they have to step up or carry more responsibility than many other kids?
✨ If you could visit them today, what would you do together?

Take a moment to send some love to your inner child.
Maybe that looks like rest, play, creativity, softness — or simply offering yourself the care you needed then.

12/01/2025

Guess who's back! 👋🏾 Our team member Nasim Switzer is back in the office and accepting new clients.

After spending time off for parental leave, she’s returning with the same grounded, compassionate presence that her clients know and love.

As a mixed-race person Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC), she works from a culturally informed, neurodivergent-affirming, and intersectional lens. She supports folks navigating:

🌿 Anxiety
🌿 Trauma
🌿 Interpersonal challenges
🌿 Parenting during the perinatal period and beyond
🌿 Breaking intergenerational cycles with intention and care

Whether you’re hoping to feel safe in your body again, strengthen your relationships, or reconnect with your values, she’s here to walk alongside you.

🤎 Sessions available online across AB, BC, SK, MB, ON, QC, NWT, YT & NU.

If you'd like to book an appointment with Nasim, contact us at:
📞 587-760-1311
📧 admin@bipochealingcentre.ca

11/03/2025

We know therapy isn’t always accessible — especially in this economy. That’s why our intern therapist Alaynna is offering one free 50-minute session to help reduce the cost barrier for folks seeking support.

After your first session, therapy continues at $60/session with limited sliding scale options available (as low as $30/session).
This offering is especially for students, folks without insurance, and anyone facing financial barriers to therapy 🤎

You can also book a free 15-minute consultation to connect with Alaynna and see if it’s a good fit.

To book, email admin@bipochealingcentre.ca or call 587-760-1311.

10/28/2025

Dear Black Women, Indigenous Women, and Women of Colour:

Your feelings are valid. Society doesn’t always make space for our pain, our sadness, or our softness — but that ends here.
Our emotions are policed, our anger demonized, our sadness overlooked. We fight against racism, patriarchy, and stereotypes — leaving little room to rest, feel, or heal.
This Canadian Women’s History Month, honour your mind, body, and spirit.

You’re allowed to rest.
You’re allowed to feel.
You’re allowed to heal.

Your softness is not weakness. Your healing is resistance. 🤎

10/17/2025

The world feels heavy. Genocide continues, books are banned, anti-black/brown rhetoric grows, and as systems fail blame falls on our racialized communities.

Pause. Inhale. 1…2…3… Exhale.

This is your reminder that It’s okay to care for yourself.
To rest. To find joy, healing, and connection. 🌿
Collective care is resistance. We survive together. ✨

10/15/2025

Closing Hispanic Heritage Month / Cerrando el Mes de la Herencia Hispana ✨

As we wrap up this month of celebration, we honor the stories, rhythms, and resilience that shape Latinx identity — from Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MÁS FoTOs, a love letter to Puerto Rico and its people, to Karol G’s Trópicoqueta, a vibrant ode to joy and femininity. We also recognize the voices that ground us in history and reflection, like Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s Children of the Land.
Culture lives in memory, music, and movement — in every beat, every word, every act of remembrance. ❤️💃🏽🌎
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated each year from September 15 to October 15 — a time to honor the histories, cultures, and contributions of Hispanic and Latinx communities across the world.

Written and curated by: Daniela Perez

10/06/2025

Thinking about starting therapy? Working with an intern therapist might be the perfect fit for you!

Here’s why:

🤎 Intern therapists often provide sessions at the most affordable rates, making healing more accessible.

🤎 They are at the forefront of innovation, learning and applying the newest practices.

🤎If you’re new to therapy, you can take comfort knowing they’re learning too — you’re growing and healing together.

🤎They bring a fresh voice and new outlook into the therapy space; plus, all their work is guided by experienced supervisors to ensure quality care.

At the BIPOC Healing & Wellness Centre, our intern therapists are committed to creating safe, inclusive, and culturally informed spaces for your journey.

Ready to begin your healing journey with us? click the link in our bio or contact us at 587-760-1311 or at admin@bipochealingcentre.ca to book your first session.

10/03/2025

✨Happy Hispanic Heritage Month / Feliz Mes de la Herencia Hispana ✨

From September 15 to October 15, we honor Hispanic and Latinx people across our countries, in the diaspora, and the many traditions that keep our cultures alive.

This month, we especially uplift the legacy of Curanderas/os, Santeras/os, Babalawos, Indigenous shamans, and traditional healers whose wisdom was too often hidden or dismissed under colonial and white supremacist systems.

These healers held space for spirit, memory, and community, offering care that goes far beyond Western frameworks of mental health.

Healing is deeply tied to decolonization. To forget our roots, our ancestors, and our ways of knowing is to lose vital threads of connection. By naming and honoring these traditions, we affirm that healing has always lived in our communities, and continues when we bring light to what was once silenced.

(Inspired by the work of Jennifer Mullans Decolonizing Therapy)

Cheers,
Daniela Osoria

09/30/2025

Today, we honour the Indigenous children whose lives were taken, the survivors who carry intergenerational trauma, and the families impacted by the ongoing crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people.

Here in Edmonton, true reconciliation means action, not just orange shirts. The silence around the disappearance of Samuel Bird is unacceptable. We refuse to be silent and encourage everyone to support search efforts, raise awareness, and stand with the community.

for more information on the search for Samuel bird or if you would like to donate or support please reach out to

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Art on the last slide is by .star.designs

Reconciliation is not one day: it is a lifelong commitment to justice, accountability, and change. Every Child Matters.

09/11/2025

September often feels like a reset — a new season, fresh routines, and shifting priorities. But with that change, many of us also notice our anxiety rising. 🍂

This month, our mental health therapist Daniela Osoria is sharing insights on anxiety: what it is, and some of the common ways we respond to it including: distraction, avoidance, reassurance seeking, and even trying to fight it. While these patterns may bring short-term relief, they don’t always help us in the long run.

Here’s the truth: we all have patterns. They’re not flaws, they’re strategies that once made sense. The key isn’t to eliminate anxiety. It’s to shift how we respond to it.🤎✨

Learn more about anxiety and strategies for managing it by booking a free 15-minute consultation with Daniela. To book your consultation call us at 587-760-1311 or shoot us an email: admin@bipochealingcentre.ca. You can also book online through our Jane booking site.

09/04/2025

Hey friends! Meet Alaynna (pronounced Ah-lay-na) 🌿👋🏾

Alaynna is a Chinese, second-generation immigrant born and raised in amiskwaciwâskahikan (Treaty 6, Edmonton). She is passionate about creating a safe, compassionate space where clients feel seen, supported, and empowered. 💛
She works with adults (18+), 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and immigrant communities, supporting concerns such as anxiety, self-esteem, workplace stress, family dynamics, and relationships.

With a person-centred and culturally responsive approach, she blends empathy, humour, and mindfulness to honour both the joys and struggles that shape each person. 🌸
Alaynna is available for virtual sessions on Wednesdays and Thursdays (5–8 pm) and Fridays (10 am–4 pm), with in-person sessions available upon request. Her rate is $60, with limited sliding scale options. ✨

Outside of counselling, you’ll likely find her sewing, listening to R&B, or enjoying cozy walks in nature. 🌿

08/06/2025

🌟 Big news! 🌟
Our amazing intern Dani is now officially practicing as a Mental Health Therapist! 🎉

She offers affordable virtual therapy for folks seeking cost-accessible mental health support, with availability Monday to Wednesday, 10AM–3PM — in both English and Spanish. 💬✨

Interested in working with Dani or learning more?
📞 Call us at 587-760-1311
📧 Or email admin@bipochealingcentre.ca

Address

Unit B, 10021 167 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
T5P3W3

Website

http://www.bipochealingcentre.ca/

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