We begin by acknowledging that, here in Nova Scotia, we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. We are all treaty people.
Wild Art Therapy approaches health and healing from a Transpersonal perspective. This means we depend upon, value and include more than just human beings in the healing process. One's relationship to Self often includes so much more than our body and mind. We are made up of the people, places, systems, cultures, animals, plants, and spirituality around us. We honor these sacred connections and invite them into the therapeutic process.
katie hanczaryk, MA, RCT, RCAT
Transpersonal Art Therapist"Creativity allows for connections beyond words"
Katie has the unique ability to gently support clients through radical transformational shifts. Katie co-founded the Naropa Community Art Studio- International, (ncasi.wordpress.com) which brought the power of art therapy to women and children affected by the sex trafficking industry in Cambodia. Katie continues her work, specializing in sexual abuse and survivors of childhood sexual assault and trauma. Utilizing a Client-Centered approach to healing, Katie combines Art Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology to create a safe haven for trauma survivors and individuals wanting to reconnect with themselves and enrich their relationships with others. Katie is a Registered Canadian Art Therapist and Registered Counseling Therapist. Katie has been trained in Trauma-informed, relational approaches. Katie has a certification in the Emotional Freedom Technique, a way to use our bodies natural state of health and wellbeing to facilitate creating new neural pathways in the brain. Katie is currently studying WholeBody Relational Focusing techniques. Combining sandtray therapy, Art Therapy, body based practices and mindfulness into sessions Katie journey's with each of her clients to support a return to feeling at home in the body and mind. |
nathan M. torti, MA, RCT
Transpersonal Wilderness therapist“Stewardship for Oneself, Others and the Natural World”
Nathan is a clinical therapist for young adults, individuals and families who struggle with complex trauma as well as substance abuse and addictive behaviors, anxiety, big emotions and technology addictions. Nathan weaves Wilderness Counseling Therapy with Transpersonal Psychology to create a foundation of Eco-centric healing with three foundations: Everyone is basically sane, everyone is trying to get their needs met and everyone is doing the best they can with what they are aware of. His approach is to support clients to connect with their innate capacity to heal by listening. Together, we create a safe enough space for people to come out of their heads (problem solving) and into their heart (emotional literacy) and body (intuition). By cultivating a new kind of relationship with ourselves, we can steward a fluid connection to our health, healing and empowerment. He has been successfully creating and facilitating creative Wilderness Therapy programs and interventions such as rock climbing, hiking, snowboarding and ceremony as well as therapeutic work with wolves and horses since 2001. All of his work involves mindfulness-based activities including an innovative Tai Chi Chaun group that has been recognized in the clinical guide: Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents. Risk Factors and Assessment and Treatment (2017). |
Camila Reis, RCTc
Registered COUNSELING THERAPIST Candidate
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” — Lao Tzu.
Camila is passionate about connecting with people and learning from their diverse experiences. She is an enthusiastic and communicative professional, avid about fostering motivation and encouragement in others to achieve their full potential. This passion and enthusiasm have driven her dedication to counselling therapy for over ten years.
Camila is a clinical counseling therapist for individuals who struggle with complex trauma, abusive relationships, including intimate partner violence, and others dealing with general anxiety and depression. She welcomes people in the 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities as well as immigrants.
Through a client-centred approach to healing, she uses listening to support clients and build a safe space. This space can offer a way to reconnect to themselves to increase their self-awareness, self-esteem, self-confidence, overall sense of well-being, and to support their stress management.
As an immigrant, her approach promotes a culturally safe environment, as she understands and appreciates the struggles that many minorities face. Sensitivity to the cultural, linguistic, discriminatory, and isolation impacts a person experiences is crucial to cultivating health.
In addition to her postgraduate diploma in Cognitive Behavior Therapy from the University of Sao Paulo, Camila is finishing her MA thesis in Global Development at SMU. Her passion for advocating for others, allied with her mental health background, motivates her research on resilience in women survivors of intimate partner violence.
Camila is passionate about connecting with people and learning from their diverse experiences. She is an enthusiastic and communicative professional, avid about fostering motivation and encouragement in others to achieve their full potential. This passion and enthusiasm have driven her dedication to counselling therapy for over ten years.
Camila is a clinical counseling therapist for individuals who struggle with complex trauma, abusive relationships, including intimate partner violence, and others dealing with general anxiety and depression. She welcomes people in the 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC communities as well as immigrants.
Through a client-centred approach to healing, she uses listening to support clients and build a safe space. This space can offer a way to reconnect to themselves to increase their self-awareness, self-esteem, self-confidence, overall sense of well-being, and to support their stress management.
As an immigrant, her approach promotes a culturally safe environment, as she understands and appreciates the struggles that many minorities face. Sensitivity to the cultural, linguistic, discriminatory, and isolation impacts a person experiences is crucial to cultivating health.
In addition to her postgraduate diploma in Cognitive Behavior Therapy from the University of Sao Paulo, Camila is finishing her MA thesis in Global Development at SMU. Her passion for advocating for others, allied with her mental health background, motivates her research on resilience in women survivors of intimate partner violence.