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

09/13/2026

We sat down with Alaynna Hoang, our Mental Health Therapist to learn more about her! 😊

Why did she become a therapist? Who does she enjoy working with? And how would she describe herself as a therapist in just three words? 👀

Get to know Alaynna a little better in this week’s therapist spotlight! 🤎

✨ Alaynna is currently accepting new clients! Check out her profile on our website www.bipochealingcentre.ca

You can also connect with us via email at [email protected], call/text at 587-760-1311, or book online through our Jane booking website - link in our bio! ☀️

It’s okay to want community and connection 🤎 A message from our mental health therapist, Alaynna Hoang ✨For many of us, ...
08/27/2026

It’s okay to want community and connection 🤎 A message from our mental health therapist, Alaynna Hoang ✨

For many of us, seeking community can be both healing and complex. Community can offer belonging, care, understanding, and connection, while experiences of harm or exclusion can also make it difficult to trust that those spaces will feel safe.

For racialized folks who have struggled to navigate spaces, independence can become a survival pattern that protects us from harm.

The world we live in has conditioned us to celebrate, grieve, and endure wounds alone, carrying more than we were meant to hold by ourselves. It can be difficult to believe that connections with others can ever feel safe again.

We hope these affirmations remind us that wanting community and connection is a vulnerable yet human feeling. We deserve relationships and spaces that allow us to fully express ourselves and feel understood. Our struggles deserve to be met with care and gentleness.

A sense of community takes time. May we feel safer showing up as our full selves, hold space for challenges, and feel surrounded by a celebration of our joys. Here’s to finding people who make us feel at home. 🤎

Inspired by Christabel Mintah-Galloway | Relational Skills 🌸 + Niké Aurea, M.Ed Community Consultant & Speaker via Instagram.

Healing can change how we feel within ourselves. Sometimes it can also change how we experience our relationships, our f...
06/25/2026

Healing can change how we feel within ourselves. Sometimes it can also change how we experience our relationships, our families, our communities, and our sense of belonging.

For many racialized people, children of immigrants, and those from collectivist cultures, growth can bring both grief and possibility. We don’t have to choose ourselves instead of our communities. We can cultivate relationships that make room for mutual care, reciprocity, connection, and our needs too.

Navigating these changes can feel lonely, complex, and deeply relational. If you’ve found yourself in that in-between, you’re not alone and we hope this post resonates 🤎

Today, we honour the rich cultures, histories, teachings, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples.A...
06/21/2026

Today, we honour the rich cultures, histories, teachings, and contributions of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples.

As mental health practitioners, we recognize that many understandings of holistic, relational, and interconnected healing have long existed within Indigenous ways of knowing. We also acknowledge that our profession has often marginalized Indigenous knowledge and healing practices.

This reflection is offered in humility. We recognize that there is no singular Indigenous worldview and that Indigenous Peoples encompass diverse nations, cultures, languages, and healing traditions.

May we continue to honour Indigenous wisdom, uplift Indigenous voices, and remember that healing is not only individual; it is relational, collective, cultural, and connected to the land ✨

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!

06/19/2026

We asked Tiffany Snow, facilitator of our workshop Beyond Pride: Navigating the Ebbs and Flows of Our Identities, to share a little about why this conversation matters to her.

As BIPOC q***r folks, many of us navigate questions of identity, belonging, authenticity, culture, family, and community in ways that can feel both beautiful and complex. While Pride can be a time of celebration, it can also bring up important reflections about where we feel most seen, understood, and connected.

In this short video, Tiffany shares what inspired her to create this gathering and the importance of spaces specifically for BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ folks.

If her words resonate with you, we’d love to have you join us!

🌈 Beyond Pride: Navigating the Ebbs and Flows of Our Identities
📅 June 27 1pm to 2:30pm MST
💻 Virtual via Zoom
✨ Pay-what-you-can registration

Register through the Eventbrite link in our bio 🤎

We are so excited to share that Alaynna Hoang is now accepting new clients as a Mental Health Therapist at BIPOC Healing...
06/08/2026

We are so excited to share that Alaynna Hoang is now accepting new clients as a Mental Health Therapist at BIPOC Healing & Wellness Centre! 🎉🤎

Over the past year throughout her practicum, we have had the privilege of watching Alaynna grow into a thoughtful, compassionate, and skilled therapist who brings warmth, curiosity, and genuine care to her work with clients.

Alaynna supports individuals navigating anxiety, workplace stress and burnout, self-confidence challenges, cultural identity and belonging, family and relationship dynamics, and life transitions. Her approach is rooted in mindfulness, strengths-based practice, culturally responsive, anti-oppressive care with a socially just lens.

As a Chinese second-generation immigrant, Alaynna is passionate about creating a space where clients can show up as their full selves and feel supported in exploring the experiences that have shaped them.

✨ Virtual sessions available across multiple provinces and territories
✨ Accessible rate of $100 + GST per 50-minute session
✨ Free 15-minute consultation available

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, this could be a wonderful opportunity to connect with a therapist who is warm, relatable, and committed to walking alongside you in your healing journey.

To learn more or book a consultation:
📧 [email protected]
📞 587-760-1311

Check out our Pride Month offering! 🌈🤎Pride can be joyful, affirming, and deeply meaningful.It can also bring up mixed f...
06/05/2026

Check out our Pride Month offering! 🌈🤎

Pride can be joyful, affirming, and deeply meaningful.

It can also bring up mixed feelings and questions about identity, belonging, visibility, family, culture, and community; especially for those of us navigating the intersections of being both BIPOC and q***r.

Beyond Pride: Navigating the Ebbs and Flows of Our Identities is a virtual gathering created specifically for BIPOC q***r adults (18+) across Canada. It will be facilitated by Tiffany Snow, founder of All Season Wellness, and moderated by Reena Samra, founder of BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre.

Together, we’ll explore the complexities of holding multiple identities, reflect on experiences of belonging and authenticity, and connect with others who share similar lived experiences. Whether you’re feeling deeply connected to your identity, questioning parts of it, celebrating it, or simply looking for community, you are welcome here ✨

We believe there is something meaningful about gathering in intentional community with one another: to be witnessed, understood, and reminded that we do not have to navigate these experiences alone 🫶🏽

📅 Saturday, June 27
🕐 1:00–2:30PM MST
💻 Virtual via Zoom
🌈 BIPOC q***r adults (18+)

Pay-what-you-can registration available, with three tiered pricing at $5, $10 and $20 plus Eventbrite fees.

Visit the Eventbrite link in to register! 🤎

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-pride-navigating-the-ebbs-and-flows-of-our-identities-tickets-1989882443956?aff=oddtdtcreator

Finding a therapist can feel vulnerable. For many people, it’s not only about finding someone skilled; it can also be im...
06/03/2026

Finding a therapist can feel vulnerable. For many people, it’s not only about finding someone skilled; it can also be important to find someone whose values, approach, and understanding of the world feel aligned with who you are and what you need.

If political alignment, anti-oppressive practice, identity, culture, safety, or lived experience matter to you, it is okay to ask questions.

A consultation is not just for the therapist to assess fit, it’s also for you!

It’s an opportunity for you to explore:

• How a therapist understands oppression and systemic harm
• How they approach accountability and repair
• What trauma-informed care means to them
• How they navigate conversations about identity, power, and lived experience
• Whether you feel heard, respected, and emotionally safe in the interaction

Our Care Specialist Christine created a free guide to support folks in approaching consultation calls when political alignment matters, with more clarity, confidence, and intention.

Whether you find your therapist with us or elsewhere, we hope this can feel like a reflective and gentle place to start to help you feel more informed as you navigate the process.

✨ Comment “interested” on the post and we’ll send you the full guide via DM! Or email us at [email protected] 🤎

We’re so excited to introduce Christine Reprado (she/her), the Care Specialist at BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre 🤎Chr...
05/26/2026

We’re so excited to introduce Christine Reprado (she/her), the Care Specialist at BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre 🤎

Christine brings years of experience in healthcare administration, client care, and operations within virtual mental health settings, alongside a deeply relational and anti-oppressive approach to supporting people through systems of care.

At the Centre, we believe that care does not begin when a therapy session starts.

Care begins in the first email.
The first phone call.
The first moment someone reaches out while navigating vulnerability, uncertainty, or overwhelm.

Christine helps hold those moments with intentionality, warmth, and compassion.

As a second-generation Filipino-Canadian, Christine brings both professional knowledge and lived experience into her work. Her commitment to creating accessible, affirming, and human-centred care pathways is deeply rooted in understanding what it means to navigate systems that have not always felt safe, inclusive, or responsive.

We are incredibly grateful to have her as part of the Centre and excited for our community to get to know her more 🌿

Please join us in welcoming Christine to the team 🤎✨🫶🏽

For a long time, I thought caring for others meant ignoring how I feel and pushing through exhaustion.I thought exhausti...
05/25/2026

For a long time, I thought caring for others meant ignoring how I feel and pushing through exhaustion.

I thought exhaustion meant I was working hard enough, being needed meant being worthy, and survival meant enduring without ever slowing down.

After going through significant grief and loss, health struggles and reaching burnout, I began realizing how much of my life had been shaped by constantly abandoning myself while still trying to care for everyone around me.

For many BIPOC folks, healers, helpers, caregivers, organizers, and community members, survival often teaches us to overfunction and suppress our own needs.

There is so much beauty in collective care and community responsibility. We need each other.

I’ve also been reflecting on how to include ourselves as part of the collective when we speak about collective liberation.

While recognizing that healing is deeply systemic and political; rest is not equally accessible to everyone; and individual self-care does not undo structural harm.

But because we are also human beings living inside the systems we are resisting; perhaps liberation must also include our humanity.
Perhaps it must include our grief.
Our softness.
Our exhaustion.
Our joy.
Our right to exist beyond survival.
We too, are part of the collective. 🤎
-Reena

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