Indigenous Informed Therapy
What you may be carrying:
Many Indigenous clients come to therapy carrying more than what can be named easily. You may be holding grief, disconnection, the impact of intergenerational experiences, identity questions, or simply exhaustion from having to move through systems that were never designed with you in mind.
You may be looking for a space where you do not have to explain yourself, justify your experience, or translate parts of who you are in order to be understood.
You might be seeking support for anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship difficulties, parenting challenges, or life transitions. Or you might simply be looking for a place where you can speak freely and be met with cultural safety, not clinical distance.
How we can help:
Indigenous informed therapy at My Inner Peace Counselling & Psychotherapy is grounded in respect, cultural awareness, and relational care.
Our approach centres emotional safety, lived experience, and healing at your pace. Therapy here is not about fixing you. It is about making space for your story with care, dignity, and understanding.
You are not expected to educate your therapist.
You are not asked to separate culture from healing.
You are not required to move faster than your nervous system allows.
Instead, therapy becomes a place where you can speak honestly, reconnect with yourself, and be supported in ways that honour your identity and experience.
What therapy looks like:
Sessions are shaped around what feels comfortable for you. Some clients prefer quiet reflection. Others find meaning in storytelling, conversation, or exploring emotions through lived memory.
Therapy is relational and paced slowly. There is space to name what feels heavy, explore identity, reconnect with inner strength, and build steadiness in your life.
There is no single way therapy must look. What matters is that you feel respected, heard, and supported without pressure to perform or explain who you are.
About Indigenous informed care at our clinic:
At My Inner Peace Counselling & Psychotherapy, Indigenous informed therapy is part of our commitment to providing care that respects cultural context, lived experience, and relational values.
We recognize the impact of colonization, displacement, and intergenerational trauma. We also recognize strength, resilience, knowledge, and identity as central to healing.
This work requires care, humility, and accountability. Our role is not to lead your healing, but to walk alongside you while you define what healing means for yourself.
After working with us:
Clients often describe feeling more grounded, more connected to themselves, and less alone in what they carry.
You may feel clearer about your emotions.
You may begin to trust yourself in ways that have not felt accessible before.
You may find that you relate differently to your story, your body, and your relationships.
There is no fixed outcome you are expected to reach.
Healing does not move in straight lines.
Growth comes in small steady moments that add up over time.
Work with Amy Taylor:
Indigenous informed therapy at our clinic is offered by Amy Taylor.
Amy is an Indigenous therapist who brings culturally grounded care into her work. Guided by Two-Eyed Seeing (Etuaptmumk), Amy weaves Indigenous knowledges together with Western therapeutic approaches in a way that honours both.
Her work is rooted in relational values such as respect, reciprocity, humility, and connection. Amy incorporates storytelling and reflective practices to create a space that feels balanced, compassionate, and grounded.
Amy offers:
In-person therapy in Barrie
Virtual therapy for clients in Moose Factory and surrounding regions
Virtual sessions across Ontario
If working with an Indigenous therapist matters to you, you can book directly with Amy by clicking here.
Healing does not have to happen in isolation. Your story, your identity, and your pain deserve to be held with care. Whether this is your first step or one of many, you are welcome here, exactly as you are.
