We are using a HEPA air purifier and disinfecting the space between sessions to ensure cleanliness and safety.
My name is Caro Ibrahim and I am a migrant of colour living on Treaty 1 territory. I honour the land and the peoples of the land where I live and call home.
Just Healing Psychotherapy resides on Treaty 1 territory, the homeland of the Métis Nation. This is the traditional land of the Baaskaandibewi-ziibiing (Brokenhead), Zaagiing (Sagkeeng), Gaa-ginooshkodeyaag (Long Plain), Oshki-ishkonigan (Peguis), Okwewanashko-ziibiing (Roseau River), Gaa-wiikwedaawangaag (Sandy Bay) and Gaa-biskigamaag (Swan Lake) communities. The land encompassed by Treaty 1 includes Winnipeg, Brandon, Portage la Prairie, Selkirk, Steinbach, Grand Beach, Emerson, Winkler and many more.
Just Healing Psychotherapy recognizes these Nations and any other Nations who cared and still care for the land, acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded, as this land's past, present and future caretakers.
Our water is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation. For years while Winnipegers had access to clean tap water sourced from the lake, the Nation kept hauling in drinking water from Kenora. After more than two decades of water advisories for the community and no clean drinking water, the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation water treatment facility opened in 2021, only three years ago.
For that source of life, I am thankful.
What is Just Healing?
Just Healing centres an equitable/just approach to healing as I recognize, welcome and include the multiple intersections that shape one’s identity and life experiences. I acknowledge that life challenges, how a person is perceived, how they navigate their relationships, choices, finances, health, self-care, coping, life transitions, identity, belief system, and much more, are impacted and informed by many systemic structural powers beyond one’s immediate circles, family systems, abilities, hard work and control.
I see healing as an act of resistance, reclamation of one’s existence, and reconciliation of the mind, body (soma), and soul-spirit. It is a personal journey towards self-realization and restoration, in the sense of coming home to oneself. It is an act of individual and collective liberation.
Healing can be both exciting and scary, encouraging and challenging. I will be here to support you along that journey.
There is no shame in love. There is no fear in trust.
The power to love and trust your unique self dwells within.
– Caro Ibrahim (he/him)