Stephanie is an Art Therapist and licensed psychotherapist in Nova Scotia and Ontario. She has more than 15 years of experience across social services, trauma recovery, and social justice work. She brings together professional knowledge, creativity, and lived experience in her art therapy practice, offering a warm and compassionate approach grounded in connection, curiosity, and respect for culture and individualism that honours each person’s unique journey.

Stephanie is 2SLGBTQIA+ and is also a mother, birth-mother, grandmother, and mother-in-law within her very queer family. Stephanie is deeply committed to creating inclusive and affirming spaces where people of all races, cultures, genders, sexual orientations, identities, bodies, and ways of being can feel a genuine sense of comfort and belonging.

Stephanie is a proud whāngai sister and aunty. He wahine mōmona, he Pākehā, he takatāpui a Stephanie (Stephanie is a fat woman, white, and queer). These relationships and identities inform her commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, community, reciprocity, our connection to nature, our ancestors and land. Respecting and honouring the many different ways we come to know ourselves, the ways we move in the world, and how we relate to one another.

Originally from Te Whānganui-a-Tara/Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Stephanie immigrated to Canada in 2022 and now lives in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia, with her partner Adrienne.

Stephanie is an Art Therapist and licensed psychotherapist in Nova Scotia and Ontario. She has mo... Read More