Our Members

As a clinical counselor and somatic art therapist, Chloe Martin works with neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ adults looking for an alternative approach that works with both body and mind. Maybe you're navigating CPTSD, burnout, or PMDD. Maybe you're exhausted from big emotions, codependency, and never knowing where you end and others begin.

There's a painful paradox many neurodivergent adults live with: intellectually capable yet struggling with daily tasks, caring deeply for others while unable to identify their own feelings, hyper-self-aware but stuck in the same cycles. Traditional approaches may miss this entirely.

Combining somatic experiencing, art therapy, and parts-based work, Chloe addresses boundary issues, attachment struggles, self-accommodation, and the exhaustion of never quite fitting in. Neurodivergent and queer themselves, they offer long-term, companion-based work grounded in collaboration. The approach works WITH your brain and body, not against them - adapting to what you need and supporting you through the messy, non-linear process of healing.

Based in Montreal, working bilingually across Canada.

Nikita is the founder of Ayurvedic Sister, a holistic practice rooted in Ayurveda. She provides Ayurvedic consultations, offers fertility/birth/postpartum doula support, teaches Ayuryoga™ and facilitates Ayurvedic Ateliers.

Nikita's approach is informed by her upbringing as an Indian woman as well as her background in kinesiology and ethnography (cultural anthropology) respectively. Her understanding of physiology and functional anatomy has informed her integrated practice that bridges Eastern and Western healing modalities together. With her experience as an anthropologist, Nikita approaches care as a collaborative process by asking well-crafted questions, recognizing that profound healing cannot arise without clarity and insight into one's own state of imbalance.

Nikita is committed to honouring traditional knowledge while empowering clients to read from their own book of intuitive wisdom. She believes healing follows a spiral path, in which we might revisit the same places we've been to come up with new insights on the path towards balance.

A multidisciplinary storyteller—film, text, opera—and a Somatic Experiencing practitioner and nervous system coach. Nika was born in Iran, raised in the US, and has been an immigrant-guest in Montreal, QC for over 20 years.

In her art practice, she pulls from lived experience as an immigrant growing up in a diverse working-class community to tell stories of human resilience and how we heal from adversity.

In her private practice as a somatic practitioner, Nika supports creatives, care workers, and immigrants who want to expand their capacity and tolerance for joy, resolve body-based charge from chronic overwhelm, and learn how their nervous system is relevant to everything from intimacy, finances, and creativity. She serves on the faculty of The Trauma of Money, a unique psychoeducational program that certifies professionals and organizations in trauma-sensitive approaches to money.

As a hypnotherapist, Emmanuelle Aïsha Sparkes guides you through your inner world to help you release blockages and build trust within yourself. What inspires her most about hypnotherapy is seeing people reconnect with their inner strength, regain hope and allow themselves to live more authentically. After a decade of community work, they were inspired to support folks through a therapeutic approach. They believe that working with one’s own subconscious imagery and symbolism strongly facilitates embodying the changes one desires. Although hypnotherapy is a transformation and solution-oriented practice, Emmanuelle Aïsha cares to hold what’s difficult with empathy and to stay conscious of systemic barriers and oppressions that influences one's life and the therapeutic process.

Kathleen Charles is a queer, Haitian artist, canadian certified counsellor, creative arts therapist, somatic practitioner, dance movement therapist in training and community organizer based in Tio'tia:ke (Montreal).

Their facilitation is heavily rooted in a commitment to collective liberation. They exercise this by fostering safer spaces for marginalized folks to experience re-indigenized therapeutic spaces individually and in community through embodiment and sacred creativity. In their practice Kat enjoys emphasising imaginative playfulness as a form of embodied emancipation, joy and resistance, using techniques such as role play, storytelling, improv, somatic awareness and creative movement.

Coral Short is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Community Dharma Teacher, and queer, non-binary white settler of Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Roma descent. Their practice focuses on healing, transformation, and collective liberation, with joy and resilience at the centre.

Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Coral co-leads Queer Sangha with True North Insight. They offer virtual somatic workshops, eco-somatic walks, anti-racist courses, retreats, and individual sessions that bring together embodiment, transformation, and social justice.

With over 30 years of experience as an organizer, activist, and artist, Coral provides compassionate support for 2SLGBTQI+ individuals, people in recovery, and those exploring creativity, gender, sexuality, and spirituality. Their work invites slowing down, practicing self-compassion, and reconnecting with your capacity for healing and empowerment. www.coralshort.com

Margot Hovey, PhD is embracing Eldership in her counselling practice: individuals, dyads, and families through transitions and challenges. As she is completing the M.A. Counselling
Psychology program, she is a deep listener and provides authentic feedback. During
your conversation with her, your life story, influences, and challenges emerge. You’ll
collaborate on how to best shape the life you want to lead.

With a Ph.D. Integral Studies, Margot’s previous work focused on facilitating inclusion –
racial, cultural, age, life stages, sexual and gender identity in our communities. Integral
counselling weaves mind, body, and spirit into healing. Margot brings a deep
appreciation of wholeness to her work.

Arising from lived experience, Margot is called to work with seniors and families in
transition. Shifts in family circumstances (illness, death, relocation, diagnosis, divorce,
identity, dementia, retirement, renewal) affect the living family system. She witnesses
and supports her client’s process. Margot’s toolbox includes techniques across
counselling modalities including psychodynamic, ACT, narrative therapy, gestalt and CBT.