BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre

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BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre

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

04/24/2026

Why is it so hard to slow down?

Rest is often framed as unproductive, or something we hesitate to connect to our sense of ability or worth. But for many BIPOC individuals, there has been a long history of pressure to overwork while navigating systems that were never designed with us in mind.

Over time, our bodies adapted to these conditions. Slowing down can feel unfamiliar, and at times, even unsafe.

From a culturally responsive lens, rest can be a form of resistance; an idea deeply explored in Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey. It invites us to reclaim our need to feel, rather than only function.

Slowing down is not just self-care. It can look like pausing, noticing our bodies, and being gentle with what comes up, without working against our own pace.

These moments can begin to rebuild a sense of safety within ourselves, creating space to exist more fully and authentically, without judgment.

Check out this post written by our intern therapist, Alaynna Hoang ✨🤎

03/18/2026

Over the past week, so many of you have found your way to our page. Whether through our recent job posting or through someone sharing our work, we just want to say, welcome 🤎

BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre was created as a space for folks of the Global Majority who have not always felt seen, held, or understood within Westernized mental health care.

A space where healing is not separated from culture, community, history, politics, identity, or the systems that shape our lives.
 A space where you don’t have to translate yourself or educate your therapist to be met with care.

Right now, our therapists have availability for new clients.

Each member of our team brings their own lived experiences, clinical training, and relational approach, while sharing a commitment to culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and justice-oriented care.

Some of what we can support individual adults, youth and couples navigating includes:
– anxiety, depression, stress, and burnout – trauma, grief, and intergenerational wounds – identity, belonging, and life transitions – relationship and family dynamics
– processing the impacts of systemic oppression, racism, and marginalization – the many layered ways our experiences live in our bodies and everyday lives

If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, or returning to it, this could be a gentle place to begin.

You can learn more about our therapists and book a session through the link in our bio.

We’re really glad you’re here 🤎

03/13/2026

Many people seek therapy hoping to feel understood, only to find themselves explaining, translating, or minimizing parts of who they are.

Culturally responsive mental health care asks us to move beyond frameworks that treat distress as purely individual and instead understand people within the cultural, historical, relational, and systemic contexts that shape their lives.

This kind of care invites therapists to practice humility, curiosity, and accountability. It asks us to question the models we’ve inherited, to honour forms of knowledge that have long been overlooked, and to hold space for the full complexity of people’s stories.

At BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre, culturally responsive care is not a buzzword, it is an ongoing practice and responsibility.

Swipe through to explore what this looks like in practice.

If this resonates with you, we invite you into this work with us ✨

03/09/2026

We’re hiring ✨

BIPOC Healing and Wellness Centre is looking for a thoughtful, organized Administrative Coordinator to join our team and help support the day-to-day systems that make culturally responsive mental health care possible.

Since opening in 2023, our small practice has supported 780+ clients with 4700+ therapy sessions, with 90% of clients returning for continued care. Behind that work is a lot of intentional coordination, care, and relational admin support.

This role is for someone who:
• loves creating systems and keeping things organized
• communicates with warmth and clarity
• enjoys supporting meaningful work behind the scenes
• resonates with values of anti-racism, liberation, and culturally responsive care

We encourage applications from folks who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, or racialized who connect with the mission of the centre.

✨ Remote (Canada)
✨ Starting at ~10 hours/week with potential to grow
✨ $25-$30/hour contractor role

If this sounds like you, or someone you know, we’d love to hear from you.

📩 Send your resume and cover letter addressed to Reena Samra to [email protected]
Subject line: Administrative Coordinator Application

Application deadline: March 22

Please feel free to share this with someone in your network who may be a great fit for this role 🤎

03/08/2026

To all women, those who resist, heal, nurture, and reimagine what is possible for our communities and our world.

To those on the frontlines of social justice movements, pushing for change even when the world refuses to recognize their power.

To those whose labour is invisible.

To those who uplift communities and shake worlds.

To those doing the deep emotional and relational work that holds families, communities, and workplaces together.

We honour you, and the softness that survives despite systems designed to exhaust us.

Honouring women means more than appreciation. It means challenging the conditions that harm us: patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and capitalism - systems that place disproportionate burdens on women’s bodies, time, and care.

Today (and every day), we invite you to practice intentional solidarity:

• Support women’s businesses
• Speak their names in rooms of opportunity
• Respect and celebrate their boundaries
• Make space for rest and healing
• Choose collaboration over competition

Let’s continue building communities where women are supported, not only to survive, but to lead, imagine, and thrive. ✨

02/28/2026

For generations, the communities most impacted by state violence have been the first to name it and too often, the first to be dismissed.

What’s happening to Latinx communities, alongside Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in the U.S., is not new. It is not an abstract policy debate. It is state violence. It is family separation. It is the criminalization of migration.

And for many of us in Canada, it is not distant. Our loved ones are directly impacted. The fear, trauma, and uncertainty do not stop at the border, they ripple outward, into our homes and through our nervous systems.

The same systems that enable this violence in the United States: colonial borders, anti-Black racism, the policing of migration and racialized surveillance are embedded in our institutions here in Canada, too.

We are not immune.

To our Latinx community members, and to racialized and immigrant communities across the Global Majority diaspora:

Your stories matter.
Your agency matters.
Your experiences matter.
We matter.
And our voices carry power, because we decide that they do.

02/03/2026

Happy Black History Month 🤎
This year marks 30 years of recognizing Black History Month in Canada. As we take time to reflect on the remarkable achievements of Black Canadians, we also want to intentionally highlight the contributions of Black community members across industries, cultures, and social movements.

Black communities have long been on the ground and on the front lines of social change; organizing, leading, and resisting well before these realities entered mainstream awareness. With so much unfolding in the world right now, many are only beginning to experience what Black communities have been naming and navigating for generations.

We want to honour the Black voices that have consistently raised these concerns and affirm that recognition must never come at the expense of Black leadership, labour, or insight. The contributions of Black communities are not new, not reactive, and not peripheral. they are foundational, ever-growing, and ever-evolving.

As we move through this month, we celebrate Black history not as something behind us, but as something living, carried forward through community, culture, resistance, and care

01/21/2026

Love often comes naturally.
Learning how to be in relationship takes care, language, and practice. We are now offering Gottman's couple therapy with Daniela Osoria.

Our couples work begins with a thoughtful assessment phase, designed to slow things down, honor your story, and focus on what truly needs care. This process isn’t about blame or diagnosis, but about clarity, respect, and strengthening the relationship itself.

This work is especially important to approach gently. For many BIPOC communities, psychological language and systems have not always felt safe or affirming. Our approach centers respect, lived experience, and relational wisdom, not blame.

We learn how to love better not because something is “wrong,” but because relationships deserve language, practice, and intention.

To learn more about if Gottman's Couples therapy is the right fit for you book a free consultation through the link in our bio.

01/14/2026

You deserve therapy that understands your lived experience, honours your identity, and doesn’t require you to overexplain or minimize yourself.

Our identities, cultures, histories, and the systems around us shape how we experience the world, and also how we heal.

Exploring therapy with a BIPOC therapist can be a way to honour choice, safety, and alignment.

For many folks, shared cultural understanding can make it easier to feel seen, understood, and supported without having to overexplain.

Therapy should meet you where you are and honour your story at your own pace.

If you’re curious about starting therapy, we’re here to explore that with you! We offer trauma-informed, intersectional, culturally responsive care that honours your wholeness 🤎

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
📧 [email protected]

Address

Unit B, 10021 167 Street NW
Edmonton, AB
T5P3W3

Website

http://www.bipochealingcentre.ca/

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