As a virtual practice serving clients across British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, we acknowledge that our work takes place across the traditional, ancestral, treaty, and unceded territories of many distinct First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples.

These lands encompass many Nations, languages, cultures, histories, laws, and relationships to the land that long predate the creation of Canada. We recognize that each territory has its own history and that a single land acknowledgement cannot fully represent the diversity of the Indigenous Peoples and communities whose lands we live and work upon.

As an Indigenous-owned practice, our relationship to this work is both professional and personal. We recognize that Indigenous identity does not remove our responsibility to remain accountable to the distinct Nations, communities, and territories in which we work. Instead, it deepens our commitment to approaching mental health care, education, supervision, and community engagement with humility, relational responsibility, and respect for Indigenous ways of knowing and being.

We acknowledge that Canada (Turtle Island) was shaped through colonization and systems that have caused—and continue to cause—profound harm to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples. These harms include displacement and dispossession from land, residential schools, the suppression of language and culture, and ongoing systemic racism within health care, education, justice, and other institutions.

We believe that reconciliation requires truth, relationship, accountability, and action. A land acknowledgement alone is not reconciliation. It is one part of an ongoing responsibility to understand the histories of the lands on which we work, examine how colonial systems continue to shape mental health care, and consider how our practice can contribute to meaningful and sustained change.

As a small business and health-care practice, we are committed to the spirit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, including Call to Action #92: Business and Reconciliation. This includes continued learning about Indigenous histories, rights, treaties, and contemporary realities; strengthening intercultural competency; addressing racism within professional practice; and working toward respectful and accountable relationships with Indigenous Peoples and communities.

We recognize reconciliation as an ongoing practice rather than a statement of completion. Our commitment is to continue learning, listening, reflecting, and translating that learning into how we practise, teach, supervise, lead, and participate in the communities we serve.