Online and in-person: Art Therapy Counselling, 1-1, Groups, Workshops, Retreats, Reiki, Ceremony and Ritual Support Art Therapist Nikki Featherstone (she/her) holds space for you while guiding you through important life and internal events. Art Therapy is an effective therapy for all types of people looking for pathways to mental health and wellness.
11/17/2025
A great resource!
Camrose Family Resource Centre is extremely excited to bring a new opportunity to parents and caregivers, eConnect!
eConnect is a 10-week online program to support parents and caregivers of pre-teens and teens with behavioral and emotional problems. Each session provides parents with a new perspective on parent-teen relationships and adolescent development. Parents watch role-plays and try exercises that encourage more choices for responding to their teens’ difficult behaviour.
If this sounds like something you would be interested in, register at www.camrosefrc.com or call 7806731378.
Program runs Jan 13,20,27 Feb 3,10,17,24 March 3,10,17
7:00 - 8:30 pm via zoom
11/16/2025
Jung knew the power of using the creative process to speak, often what we aren't even aware of yet.
11/16/2025
11/15/2025
Come see me today! I'll have art supplies for those who wish to make art, beautiful items from my souls sister's Witchy store , and lots of TIME to share with anyone who has questions and curiosities about what I offer. 🙏🔥
Details on second slide!
11/14/2025
“Anger is an assertion of rights and worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.
Anger is the demand of accountability, It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. It's a speech act, a social statement, an intention, and a purpose. It's a risk and a threat. A confirmation and a wish. It is both powerlessness and power, palliative and a provocation. In anger, you will find both ferocity and comfort, vulnerability and hurt. Anger is the expression of hope.
How much anger is too much? Certainly not the anger that, for many of us, is a remembering of a self we learned to hide and quiet. It is willful and disobedient. It is survival, liberation, creativity, urgency, and vibrancy. It is a statement of need. An insistence of acknowledgment. Anger is a boundary. Anger is boundless. An opportunity for contemplation and self-awareness. It is commitment. Empathy. Self-love. Social responsibility. If it is poison, it is also the antidote. The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. Angry women burn brighter than the sun.”
-Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her
Art by Jenny Hahn
11/13/2025
Come out to this amazing market on Saturday! I, along with so many other wonderful folks and vendors, will be there! There's music, interactive vendors, shopping, food, raffles, and wellness! All supporting mental health!
ALSO 💥 my beautiful soul sister, Dee from and I will be unveiling our 2026 SPRING RETREAT 🌱 and folks onsite will get first chances to register! ✨
Come out for a great cause, treat yourself and bring a friend!
Camrose, Alberta CRE
11/13/2025
The Owl on Haven's logo was chosen with deep intention. 🙏
The Owl Woman.
As we enter the darkness of the falling year and the coming of the Cailleach, it is interesting to note the various roles the owl plays in folklore.
Very often considered a harbinger of death, this is not always the case, and, indeed, the death or ending of one way of life may be the beginning of another, so surface symbolism may belie a deeper meaning.
(I know there are many articles about owl symbolism already out there so I'll steer clear of that aspect for this post.)
Owls have a long association with the subconscious and so-termed 'shamanic states'. As far back as the Palaeolithic we find depictions of owls within caves next to strange half transformed beasts and forms believed to be spirits and ancestor beings.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave features a half-woman/ half bison figure as well as unusual human-like forms with wings.
David Lewis-Williams' book, The Mind in the Cave, is worth reading for more on this.
A personal observation here is how the owl resembles Síle na gig figures, particularly in relation to the large eyes.
This is interesting in terms of them both being linked to the Cailleach, of course.
Also, the so-called 'Venus figure' found in the Chauvet Cave in its metamorphosed state might indicate the ritual transformation of consciousness or perhaps trance-travel to the spirit world in this context.
In the following example from the Irish folklore archives a fairy takes the form of an owl in order to entice and trap those who venture too close to her home. https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4649679/4646097/4650400
Moving into contemporary encounters for a moment, this is a fascinating link to the work of Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack who worked with subjects who claimed to have been taken by owl people.
Although often associated with UFO abductions it is important to note that associations between owls and deities such as Cernunnos were described to Mack by his subjects.
The initial impression of owls and half-transformed mythological animals and deities were also described by author Whitley Streiber in his work Communion.
This association between fairies and owls is quite complicated, though.
The cry of the Bean Sídhe is often compared to that of the screech of an owl, and, as previously stated, this call is usually perceived as a negative omen.
This link to fairies is also seen in cases where an owl has made its home within a fairy fort or cairn such as in the following instance. https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4798700/4791382/4925067
An interesting parallel here is the following observation by Marija Gimbutas, "At Newgrange, the owl goddess' round eyes, multiple beaks, and brow ridges peer down from the ceiling. They appear in a peculiar quadrupled design and in association with snake coils, zigzags, lozenges, and winding snakes. Eyes and snake coils are interchangeable on many megalithic monuments. Further symbolic fusions of symbols include eyes and suns, with the sun featuring radiating rays or concentric circles with a center dot. These symbols, so elaborately engraved on stones, evoke the goddess' sacred power and energy however she was worshiped: as owl, snake, sun, or moon.”
From a psychological perspective, the idea of a hunting creature navigating the darkness is a powerful motif. Also, the ability to traverse the nocturnal world itself brings the concept of wisdom, as well as the subconscious, to our consideration.
It is no wonder that witches, wise-women, and indeed, fairies themselves are often represented as being close to owls or even with the ability to transform into one.
As human beings, we are also drawn to the hope that there is something wise and powerful awaiting us within the darkness of our lives and beyond.
So much of this is subjective but I will finish on a strange and poignant personal story.
One evening, following the death of my wife's brother, her dad was sitting outside trying to come to terms with what had happened.
Out of nowhere, an owl descended and landed on the table on front of him. My father-in-law was shocked and didn't know what to do. The owl then hopped from the table onto his shoulder.
It sat there for about thirty seconds before flapping its wings and flying away.
Of course this is a moment which can be interpreted as just an odd coincidence but at the time, and considering the owl as a messenger from the Otherworld, it was also a moment of wonder, solace, and perhaps even hope.
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11/12/2025
11/12/2025
💭 Men’s Mental Health Matters
At Park Integrative Health, we believe men deserve a space to talk about what’s really going on, without judgment or expectation.
We’re now offering dedicated men’s mental health sessions with therapist Mac Fellows (MSW) and/or Registered Provisional Psychologist, Jacob Taylor. These sessions are designed to help with stress, anxiety, depression, relationships, life transitions, or anything else that you may need to talk about.
🧠 67% of Canadian men have never sought mental health support, yet so many are carrying heavy stress and burnout. Seeking help isn’t weakness; it’s self-awareness and strength.
Just as you care for your physical health, your mental well-being deserves the same attention.
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Nikki Featherstone is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist practicing in and around Camrose, Alberta. She offers all levels of art therapy at Haven Art Therapy Studio, from open studio drop-ins and themed groups, to closed groups, workshop intensives, and individual art psychotherapy counselling. She also offers e-counselling for those who prefer to meet online, and is available to anyone in Canada.
All types of art making are supported and celebrated in art therapy, which focuses on expression rather than technique/product; therefore, no art experience is required! Nikki specializes in including the spiritual components of the human experience, and welcomes all faiths and/or spiritual beliefs into the studio. Haven is a safe space for all people.
~ Nourish Your Spirit with Haven Art Therapy
About Nikki:
Nikki is an artist, a healer, a spiritual seeker, and a Registered Canadian Art Therapist. She loves cats, trees, her family and art in all forms. She opened Haven Art Therapy Studio as a private practice and provides art therapy in all ranges, as well as artistic services, facilitates healing workshops & retreats, and specializes in Spiritual Services.
Haven Art Therapy Studio opened June 1st, 2017 in Camrose, Alberta and then transformed to a new location in Hay Lakes as of June, 2018! The studio address is given on registration, and hours are By Appointment Only.
See Haven’s website www.ourhaven.ca for more information and Nikki’s blog - Reflections Upon the Path
May Haven become YOUR Haven.
Nourish Your Spirit with Haven Art Therapy.
~ Blessings.
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