Indigenous Perspectives in Practice : Live Drop in Circle

Before You Sit Down Live Session Add-on , or a stand alone circle

Course Summary

Join this 75-minute live learning circle for counsellors and therapists who want to deepen their understanding of Indigenous perspectives on health, healing, and wellness.
This isn’t supervision — it’s a reflective and interactive session where you’ll explore:

How Indigenous worldviews shape understandings of balance, healing, and relationship.
Key differences in how “helping” is understood across cultures — and what that means for therapy.
Practical ways to bring anti-oppressive and decolonizing principles into your daily work.
Guided self-reflection questions and peer discussion in small breakout circles.
An open Q&A where you can bring real questions from your practice.

Facilitated by Alanah Woodland, MSc , MSW, RSW, an Indigenous mental-health clinician and educator, this live roundtable offers one Indigenous perspective — rooted in relational practice, humility, and cultural safety — to support you in becoming more confident and grounded when working across difference.

(CPD-eligible | Certificate of Attendance can be provided)

Course Curriculum

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- Live Session Jan 12, 2025 1:30 -2:45 pm (Vancouver , BC Time Zone)
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Alanah Woodland

Alanah Woodland BSc, MSc, MSW (she/her)

Holistic, Integrative, Culturally Inclusive, Trauma-Trained Therapist and Facilitator/Consultant, Artist, Helper, Listener, Intuitive, Storykeeper

Ámham Therapy (Ucwalmicwts: to make something better) is Alanah’s business. Ámham offers culturally inclusive, and anti-oppressive counseling, consulting, and facilitation, incorporating creativity, body, and land-based modalities from an understanding and training in trauma and resilience. Alanah meets clients where they are, inviting curiosity and courage to look at the place or space they want to grow, understand or heal. She keeps an eye to look and help identify and work with the strengths within individuals, families and organizations.

Alanah is an Indigenous (St'at'yemc/Nlaka'pamux) registered social worker-psychotherapist who works online in two provinces (British Columbia, and Ontario) and in-person in her workspace in Lillooet, British Columbia, or the gorgeous green spaces nearby.

This flexibility with meeting spaces is one of the ways Alanah incorporates land-based modalities helping people on their healing journey. She walks beside clients on their healing journey finding ways to support oppressed and excluded people to find and receive what they need, creating a better wellness environment for her clients.

Alanah’s business utilizes Indigenous ways of engaging, which positively disrupts the current prevailing business environment created and structured by Colonialism. The way of being and work includes facilitating training for organizations, especially those in the community service or education fields, helping them to understand the impacts of trauma using Indigenous lens and stories that link traditional teachings and western psychotherapy.

Alanah holds a BSc, an MSc, and an MSW. Alanah’s first Master degree was in Community Health Sciences and Population Health sciences. Later she retuned to another Master degree focused on Indigenous trauma and resiliency, the combination allows Alanah to move from the individual experiences to the macroscopic, wide lens required to weave the bigger picture of how things like “income, different social statuses, history, and gender come into play, whether you’re Indigenous or not.” Her initial work in community health laid the groundwork for her enjoyment and creative integrative approach to facilitation and training.

The foundation of Alanah’s approach is built upon the cultural and spiritual work she’s done with her elders which has guided incorporating the land and water and spirit ;there is a cultural vein that runs through everything Alanah does in her business. She augments this foundation with expressive play, somatic body work , Indigenous focusing oriented therapy, land-based therapy and humour to help bring lightness and fluidity into the work of healing.

Alanah’s approach is best described through water, joining the flow within each client’s river of life, meeting them where they are and helping them navigate the often turbulent waters, with upstream impacts that can last for generations.

John Smith

Developer

Highly Recommended Course. Easy to Understand, Informative, Very Well Organized. The Course is Full of Practical and Valuable for Anyone who wants to Enhance their Skills. Really Enjoyed it. Thank you!!