0
Skip to Content
Selkie Counselling
Home
Individual Counselling
Groups
Webinars
One-on-One Consulting
Work With Us
Community
About Us
Contact
Selkie Counselling
Home
Individual Counselling
Groups
Webinars
One-on-One Consulting
Work With Us
Community
About Us
Contact
Home
Folder: For Clients
Back
Individual Counselling
Groups
Folder: For Practitioners
Back
Webinars
One-on-One Consulting
Work With Us
Folder: For Community
Back
Community
About Us
Contact

quick links:

HOME   | ABOUT US   | COUNSELLING  | COMMUNITY | PROFESSIONALS   | CONTACT

By signing up for the newsletter you are confirming that you agree to the terms and condition.

Thank you!

203 - 920 Hillside Ave, Victoria, BC

Join the list

I live and work on the lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, today comprising of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations, as well as the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, the W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), W̱SIKEM (Tseycum), and SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout), MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat), and BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin) nations.

Sometimes talking about self-worth in session feels bizarre 😵

Oppressive systems have worked so hard to divorce us from our inherent belonging and worthiness. 

I don't believe in building self-worth in the therapy room because I don't believe it's
more context 👇🏻

Growing up with emotional neglect makes us see ourselves like we're looking into a fun house mirror. 

Children understand who we are by having ourselves reflected back to us from the adults around us. When our caregivers are emoti
Thank you to everyone who came to my live Q&A on Wednesday!

We had a great conversation about:
🙃 what anti-fatness/diet-culture steals from our relationship to caring for ourselves
🦭 how to support clients while also gently calling out discrim
Last call to join us on Wednesday!

Anti-fat bias is a tricky subject - it continues to be so disregarded in education and the social norms of fatphobia run incredibly deep. 

This is your chance to have a full hour Q&A with me to ask all your cl
It's almost here!

I've been so happy to support the Queer & Trans Farmers' Market since their first year, and it's been incredible to see community come together to keep it going for it's third year now 🥰🌈

Details:
11am until 6pm, August 22nd
Wh*teness consumes, erases, assimilates, suppresses, destroys. 

In place of real culture that's rooted in people and place, wh*teness creates a new culture, one based on it's foundational tenant of supremacy: diet-culture and anti-fatness. 

We're n
Moralizing food without context looks like normal social expectations. With context, it looks like ongoing colonization.

(This quote is from "My Grandmother's Hands" by @resmaamenakem - a.k.a. a foundational text for everyone in helping pr
I have two nemeses, and they're both dead white men who researched dietetics. 

The depth of racism and colonialism underpinning our beliefs and systems around food and health truly knows no bounds. Anti-fatness, healthism, and diet-culture work in s

COPYRIGHT © SELKIE COUNSELLING • ALL RIGHTS RESERVED • PRIVACY POLICY • TERMS AND CONDITIONS • PHOTOGRAPHY