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Our Story: From a Digital Thread to a Living Space

In 2013, shortly after graduating from McGill’s Counseling Psychology program, Parneet felt a deep disconnection—between systemically aware practitioners and the communities they were committed to serve.

Experiencing marginalization as a brown, queer, second-generation, non-binary person, Parneet understood firsthand how challenging it could be to build a values-aligned practice within systems not built with them in mind. Clinical spaces often felt sterile, isolating or disconnected from the deeper work of systemic healing.

So in 2014, they started something small: a private Facebook group for radical, like-minded peers—a place where practitioners committed to justice, care, and systemic healing could find one another. That seed became MTL Healing Space, an online gathering place that has grown over the past decade to include over 2,500 members across disciplines: psychotherapists, educators, drama and art therapists, nurses, doulas, spiritual healers, somatic facilitators, and more.

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Holding the Web Between Personal, Interpersonal and Systemic

Over the past decade, MTL Healing Space has become a nurturing hub - offering resources for both practitioners and people existing on various intersecting margins. From the beginning, Parneet held a vision that extended beyond the screen: a physical space to match the depth of care and sharing happening online.

One that could welcome all beings while centering communities most marginalized; queer, trans, racialized, femme, immigrant, disabled, working class, elderly and neurodivergent —not only as clients, but as leaders, facilitators, and creators of care.

They dreamed and schemed for over a decade to find a space that could host this vision.

Finally, A Space To Share

After years of tending the vision, they found the right space: physically accessible, financially viable, and rooted in possibility.

As a childfree, chronically ill, trauma survivor, this space is so much more than a professional offering—it is an act of legacy. This space also honours Parneet’s late sister, Carry Neveah, whose sudden passing in August 2024 emboldened them to step fully into this vision.

They decided to commit to creating something that reflects the world they want to inhabit: a place of refuge where healing is communal, connection is authentic and practitioners are supported as whole people, deserving of the care and compassion they give to others.

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