Offerings

julialouiseaplin@gmail.comMovement and Somatics

Founded in the Mitzvah Technique One on one private session-hands-on body work to relieve stress and pain. A session may also include guided movements for postural alignment.  Sliding sliding scale $100-$135 plus HST

email julialouiseaplin@gmail to enquire or to book

 

Psychotherapy

My embodied, nature connected and mindful approach is collaborative, person-centred, strengths-based and feminist. I combine creativity with therapeutic methods and dialogue to support you. I will collaborate with you to listen, explore, process and contemplate. I will walk with you (literally and/or figuratively) along the pathways and I will sit and ponder with you at the crossroads. Embodied, sensory, creative and curious, my approach is down to earth with a blue sky imagination. I have decades of lived experience with the creative process that I bring to my therapeutic work.I offer one on one psychotherapy sessions both online and inperson walk and talk therapy. I am a registered psychotherapist (qualifying) and a student art therapist working under supervision. 

$85 per session no HST

email julialouiseaplin@gmail to enquire or to book

Breathe
Ecotherapy 

Nature is the therapist and I am your guide. 

I share attunement practices that are grounded in mutual respect and care for developing therapeutic relationships with trees and other beings. I use outdoor leadership protocols and combine them with arts based imaginative practices to hold space for you to explore what is arising in you. Through nature immersion, this session offers the potential to improve physical and mental wellbeing while also offering care for the earth. 

One on one and group session are available. 

“It feels like I have had a spiritual massage.”  L.K. 

email julialouiseaplin@gmail to enquire or to book

 *please note that these sessions are not psychotherapy or Art Therapy.

cost varies per session depending on number of participants and location

Mid Week Movement Online Class

30 minute Online Movement Class

It’s not a dance class but it’s very dance-y.

We will move the whole body through a range of motion as we explore aspects of agility, balance, focus, creativity, strength, balance, articulation and alignment. It includes practices of attunement to self, others and place.  

 It is all adaptable.
I’ll open the zoom room 10 minutes before class to say hello and settle in. Movement starts at 8:30 sharp. Zoom will stay open for 10 minutes after class for questions and conversations.

It is a pragmatic, poetic, creative morning movement that I developed over the last decade through my teaching work with actors. I have distilled and connected a lot of my practices into this morning sequence. I like the sequence so much that I practice it almost everyday for myself, adapting it to where I am and how I’m feeling. The practice has helped me to feel more embodied and grounded and capable as I move through my day. The sequence visits different aspects and body parts but the focus is always on the wholeness of our embodied creative, social and spiritual being.

Everyone shows up differently each day, some days you feel like moving, some days you don’t. This sequence has become a grounding way to check in and move forward into your day as best as you can just as you are.

email julialouiseaplin@gmail to enquire or to book