Healing Connections Psychotherapy

02/07/2026

02/06/2026

🎉 It’s Play Therapy Week! 🎉

At Healing Connections Psychotherapy, we’re celebrating the power of play because play is a child’s first language 💛

Play therapy isn’t just fun (though it is that too 😉). It’s a proven, trauma-informed way for children to:
• Express big feelings they don’t yet have words for
• Process stress, trauma, grief, and life changes
• Build emotional regulation, confidence, and resilience
• Feel safe, seen, and understood

Our therapists are specially trained to meet kids where they’re at — on the floor, with toys, creativity, imagination, and care. Healing happens when children are allowed to be children while being supported in the right way 🧸✨

📞 Call 705-980-0777 for a FREE consultation
Let’s talk about whether play therapy is the right fit for your child.

Because healing doesn’t always happen through talking, sometimes it happens through play. 💫

02/06/2026

Our next adventure!! 😍 Can't wait to share it with you!!

02/04/2026

✨ GROUP PROGRAMS NOW OPEN AT HEALING CONNECTIONS

We’re currently offering several therapy-led support and social groups for adults, youth, and children. These groups are designed to build connection, coping skills, confidence, and emotional well-being in a safe, welcoming space 💛

🌿 Adult Support Group
A supportive space to share, learn about trauma and the nervous system, build coping skills, and connect with others who get it.

🎒 Youth Support Group (Ages 11–14)
Mondays | 4:30–5:30 PM
Starting ASAP
Focused on emotional expression, coping skills, peer connection, and confidence.

🎨 Creative Connections Club (Ages 7–10)
Tuesdays I 6:30-7:30 PM
A therapeutic social group using creativity and play to build emotional awareness, communication, empathy, and friendship skills.

✨ Why join a group?
Because healing happens in connection. Groups offer shared understanding, practical tools, and a sense of belonging—you don’t have to do this alone.

⚠️ Spaces are limited and filling quickly
📞 Please call or register online to secure your spot today.

📍 183 First Ave W, North Bay
📱 705-980-0777
🌐 healingconnectionstherapy.ca

💛 We’d love to welcome you.

02/01/2026

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01/28/2026

One of my favourite resources to share with clients!! 😍

Sensory Stress is common for Autistic people but it's also something that many other neurodivergents experience too. As sensory stress gradually builds, we experience increasing signs of distress.

Daily stress from systemic trauma, capitalism, the collapse of democracy, the violence we witness, and the fears we face, pushes us further along this continuum so that sensory averse input becomes even more likely to cause fatigue, overload, meltdown, shutdown, and burnout.
✏️ I'm crowdfunding my current work in progress: The Nervous System Study Guide. This is a workbook covering holistic nervous system science from a neurodiversity paradigm lens with an aim towards collective healing, not just individual soothing. Details here: https://traumageek.thinkific.com/courses/nervous-system-study-guide

🧠 If you don't want to wait for me to finish writing the Nervous System Study Guide, you can get all the info now in video format. Topics include polyvagal basics and criticism, energetics of the ANS, the BioPscyhoSocial nervous system, Neurodivergent trauma, attachment trauma, systemic trauma, and pathways to healing. Details here: https://traumageek.thinkific.com/courses/holistic-nervous-system-science-study-group-recordings

01/28/2026

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Because sometimes the best parenting advice is a deep breath and permission to be human. 😉

✨ Good Enough Parenting: An Integrative Workshop on Self-Compassion ✨

Join us for an evening designed to remind parents that perfect isn’t the goal — present is. This welcoming workshop will explore mindfulness, self-compassion, and how stress affects both parenting and the nervous system.

🧠 Learn practical tools
💬 Share and reflect with other parents
🧘‍♀️ Experience gentle breathing and yoga-based movement you can actually use in real life (yes, even on the hard days)

Guest Presenter: Alexandra Albert, Of The Wild Integrative Wellness & Psychotherapy

📅 Wednesday, February 11, 2026
⏰ 5:00 – 7:00 PM
📍 171 Chippewa St. W
📞 Call to register: 705-474-8910

Come as you are. Leave feeling steadier, supported, and reassured that you’re already doing more right than you think. 💚

01/27/2026

Alida is a compassionate, trauma-informed psychotherapist specializing in work with children, families, and parent support. With training and certification in Play Therapy, she provides developmentally appropriate, evidence-based interventions that help children express emotions, process experiences, and build healthy coping skills in a safe and supportive environment.

Her practice includes working with individuals and families impacted by ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), anxiety, depression, and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). She takes an integrative, strengths-based approach that emphasizes emotional regulation, attachment, resilience-building, and relational healing.

She is deeply committed to collaborative care, empowering parents and caregivers through education, guidance, and practical strategies that support connection, understanding, and long-term emotional wellness. Her work is grounded in empathy, respect, and the belief that healing happens through safe relationships, attuned support, and meaningful therapeutic connection.

Alida co-facilitates our Creative Connections Club (ages 7-10), Growing Connections Group (ages 11-14) and our Healing Connections Support Group (for adults).

01/26/2026

This Wednesday! If you haven't signed up yet- now's your chance! 705-980-0777 or info@healingconnectionstherapy.ca

✨ Exciting Announcement! ✨

We are so happy to welcome Karen Schiavone to our new Healing Connections space, where she’ll be offering Sound Baths every second Wednesday starting January 14th.

If you’ve been craving deep relaxation, nervous system settling, and a peaceful mid-week reset… this is for you.

Sound baths are a beautiful way to release stress, calm the mind, and reconnect with your body through the healing resonance of crystal bowls and gentle vibration.

🕯 Schedule: Every second Wednesday
📅 Starts: January 14th
⏰ Time: 6:30pm–7:30pm
💛 Cost: $20 per session
📍 Location: Healing Connections
183 First Ave West, North Bay, Ontario
📞 Call 705-980-0777 to book

We can’t wait for you to experience Karen’s calming presence and the powerful grounding her sessions bring.

Step into the New Year with more peace, clarity, and connection. ✨💛🌙

01/25/2026

This week at Healing Connections Psychotherapy, our Creative Connections Club (ages 7–10) is getting hands-on and heart-smart 💛

🧰 Coping Treasure Chests
🌈 Sensory Bottles
Fun, creative tools kids can use to calm their bodies, name feelings, and build confidence.

⏰ Limited spaces available — don’t wait!
📞 Register: 705-980-0777
💻 Online: https://healingconnectionstherapy.janeapp.com/?hl=en-CA&gei=u_N1adu-H9DBp84Pnb25qAE&rwg_token=AFd1xnF9u9N-Stpc_ZBLsh_CG21jp08q-vw_SfJtZr9Dheef4svdm7TxlkSgH04ODJQLkpBh23yo83BABx_uFXe4TFO_cqNBwg%3D%3D #/discipline/17/treatment/181

🎨 Big feelings, creative hands, supportive space.
👉 Join us this week!