Kira at Celeste Counselling

A reintroduction for those new to this page, hello welcome! I’m Kira Celeste, I’m a depth psychologist, counsellor, writer and white settler on unceded K’omox territory. I’m passionate about racial integrity and accountability, as well as providing supportive care for individuals’ healing journeys. I also see these subjects as very intertwined. The personal is political, the political is personal. As such, on this page you will see a mix of counselling topics and settler accountability ones. Feel free to ask any questions or tell me a bit about yourself! Looking forward to continuing to engage with you in this work. ~K #comoxvalley #counsellor

What what would it look like to feel like you were living life fully? It’s an honour to spend my days sitting with that question with people and witnessing as they discover their personal answers to it. #soulwork #embodiment #counsellingroom #showingup #intothedepths #depthpsychology #ameaningfullife #therapy #knowthyself #thebravework #jung #jungian

Where do you find your sense of belonging? #DepthWork #Counselling #therapy #Belonging #MeaningMaking #fulfillment #JungianTherapist

Listening to the body. #embodiment #somatictherapy #psychesoma #marionwoodman #pacificagraduateinstitute #jungian

Therapy: a place we come to find ourselves. So proud and awed by the brave work my clients engage with in the therapeutic process. The confrontation with our selves, our pasts, our histories can be so scary, but the depth of empowerment, freedom, hope and meaning on the other side is a process I am honoured to get to witness daily. Time to light the lanterns. #TherapyRoom #SuchBraveWork #Individuation #Counselling #KnowThyself #EmilyDickinson #Dickinson #CourtenayTherapist

It takes so much bravery to enter into counselling and face the wounds and hardships and patterns of the past and present and be vulnerable enough to express desire for a different way of being in the world today. I have so much appreciation, and gratitude for all my clients, each of whom are so brave in their work and engagement with the counselling process. I am often filled with awe in my sessions at the strength and bravery I get to witness on a daily basis. I'm biased, b...ut I think taking that leap to look inwards and tend whatever it is one finds, and then to leave the office to engage with the world as a changed person is some of the most inspiring work in the world. I'm continuously blown away that every day I get to be ally and witness for people as they undertake that journey. #SetSail #TakeThePlunge #Counselling #Therapy #Healing #PersonalIsPolitical #ClarissaPinkolaEstes See more

#Creativity #InnerWell #ACreativeLife #CreativeExpression #WeAreAllCreatives #SoulExpression #Embodiment #LivingThisLifeFully #CounsellingInsights #Vitality

What is calling your attention, contribution, care, tending today? There are so many different paths of ways to contribute to the lives of those around us, our communities and world. For some today that path might look like some self-care. We are better able to contribute when we ourselves are grounded, well and nourished, and from that well of strength, we can take action. #ConsciousDecisionMaking #HowWillIContributeToday #Calling #CommunityCare #Accountability #Therapy #Counselling

#GentlenessWithSelf #SelfCompassion #SlowingDown #DeepBellyBreaths #TuningIn #NaturalRhythms #YouGotThis #presence

#EmilyDickinson #Dickinson #Counselling #CareForTheWorldAroundUs #Soulwork #Therapy #ComoxValley #CourtenayTherapist #Poetry

#MayaAngelou #TherapyRoom #BeHeard #FindYourVoice #TellYourStory #Counselling #Healing #CourtenayTherapy #drcelestetherapy

#TellingOurStories #Therapy #DepthPsychology #ClarissaPinkolaEstes #Jungian #Stories #Mythology #Healing #FindingYourVoice #IntoTheDepths #Counselling #CourtenayCounsellor #ComoxValley

#MarionWoodman #JungianPsychology #Jung #JungianTherapist #DreamWork #PacificaGraduateInstitute #Dreams #SoulWork

DEPTH PSYCHOTHERAPY In a culture where depth, soul, purpose, meaning, vocation and rites of passion are not always emphasized, accessible or valued, depth psychotherapy has been a healing balm in my own life, studies, research and counselling practice. Based on the writing and teachings of psychotherapists such as Carl Jung, James Hillman and Marion Woodman, depth psychotherapy addresses the whole person, and honours the importance of the body, psyche, soul, images and drea...mwork in a person’s healing and individuating process. For me depth psychotherapy is an invitation into the creative, murky waters of being and embodiment. It has beckoned me deep into its reaches. Do you feel called by it? #CarlJung #JamesHillman #MarionWoodman #DepthPsychotherapy #therapy #therapy #counsellor #counselling #DrKiraCeleste #DrCelesteTherapy #Jung #Hillman See more

Therapy is so much more than just getting help through a crisis (though that is important, too!). Therapy can help you learn, grow, and break barriers!

I love this. I’d much rather prescribe this!

The #YouCanBeABCs with Sam is the pick me up that we could all use right now @rsamuelw3

Experiential education at its finest. The best way to learn is through positive doing!

"Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one." ~ John Lennon

What do you need to work on healing within you to be a better ally? #allyship #whitefragility #settlercolonialism #deconstructingwhiteness #colonialconsciousness #antiracism #colonialism #racism

I think about this question almost every day. How does being a settler-colonial define who I am, my relationship to land, history, privilege, power and the specific unceded territory on which I recede (currently unceded K’omox territory). I don’t know if in this lifetime I’ll find the answer of what it means to be a settler living in integrity on stolen lands, or if that integrity is even possible. But I will continue to be with the discomfort of not having the answers, and continuing to learn, listen and question how I can do better. #settlercolonial #colonialism #privilege #unsettling #landback

#witnessingoneanother #willingnesstolisten #firststeps #ethicalencounters #growthzone

Have you read My Grandmother’s Hands yet? In it, Resmaa Menakem shares his profound insights on how racialized trauma lives in our bodies and nervous systems. He writes about how white individuals have to deal with the white body supremacy living within their own bodies to be in integrity in their continued work towards allyship. To tend the racial supremacy and trauma within ourselves is our responsibility in this work. Resmaa Menakem leads us through beginning this process ...from his perspective as a trauma informed somatic therapist in My Grandmother’s Hands, which includes many guided exercises and reflections for the work. When you think of white supremacy, or colonialism, what sensations arise in your body? Can you name what discomforts comes up? This can be a clue as to what needs more processing within ourselves in our antiracism work. #resmaamenakem #colonialism #whitesupremacy #somatictherapy #whiteness #antiracism See more

This work is hard. And can be difficult to navigate when there are so many, at times contrasting, views on how to engage with integrity. I recently listened to the On Being interview with Resmaa Menakem and Robin DiAngelo where they talked about how white people will never get this work right. We will never get it right. And yet we have to keep trying. Reckoning with the discomfort of knowing we won’t get it right 100% of the time and we will mess up is an important part of ...the process. And we need to learn to educate ourselves after we’ve messed up, take accountability and repair from there. But we can’t stop because it’s uncomfortable for us, because that discomfort doesn’t compare to the oppression facing BIPOC. And so we must continue to do the work, educating ourselves, getting out on the streets protesting, donating as much as we can, and dismantling the white supremacist systems within ourselves and the worlds around us. Here, fumbling along with you, towards a just, anti-racist, better, joyful world, Kira. #antiracism #keepshowingup #learning #unlearning #socialjustice #dismantlingwhitesupremacy #whiteness #decolonize #decolonization #fumbling See more

Does it feel possible to feel settled in your body, grounded and have a regulated nervous system while discussing colonialism? What emotions arise when you hear the word colonialism? #wehavetotendtoournervoussystemstobegoodallies #whitefragility #buildinguptoleranceforracialdiscomfort #racialdiscomfort #antiracism #somaticracism #somatichealing #emotionalregulation #healingracism #racism

Lee Maracle addressing white Canadians in Conversations with Canadians. If you participate in dismantling the master’s house and ending all forms of oppression you are helping yourself (p. 49). An absolute must-read for settler Canadians. * #settlercolonialism #colonialism #dismantlethemastershouse #ourliberationistied #leemaracle #antiracism #amplify #myconversationswithcanadians

What do you need to work on healing within you to be a better ally? #allyship #whitefragility #settlercolonialism #deconstructingwhiteness #colonialconsciousness #antiracism #colonialism #racism

https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/canada-online/ * https://www.cbc.ca//canadian-right-wing-extremism-online-1 * https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform-custom/deadly-force... * Last chance to sign petition!!! Canadian parliament meet in House of Commons Tomorrow the 8th, let’s get as many last minute signatures as we can for Jagmeet Singh to bring the petition forward tomorrow! * https://www.ndp.ca/indigenous-justice * https://www.ndp.ca/racism Link in bio * #jagmeetsingh #justintrudeau #ndp #racism #canada #cdnpoli #meanwhileincanada #whitesupremacy #antiracism #decolonize #colonization #canadiancolonization #houseofcommons #canadianracism #canadianparliament #wecandobetter #4chan #signthepetition #socialjustice #hategroups #socialjusticewarrior #proudcanadians #policebrutality #police #defundthepolice #rcmp #defundthercmp See more

What does being in integrity as a settler mean to you. Is it possible...? #settlercolonialism #colonialism #decolonize #integrity #allyship #whiteness #antiracism #racism #privilege #uncheckedprivilege #canada #reconciliation #cdnpoli #isreconciliationdead

What action could you take to be more in integrity with the land, and the people who have been on it since time immemorial? Do you know the history of the land you are on? Have you signed the NDP anti-racism petition (link in bio)? What are the Indigenous activists, leaders, speakers, calling for in your region? What can you do to support and answer those calls? Are there protests happening near you? What’s the latest Indigenous written book you’ve read? There’s amazing lists of Indigenous written fiction and non-fiction to chose from for our summer reads to add to some concrete action we take in our lives towards integrity #settlercolonialism #colonialism #decolonize #complicity #allyship #deconstructsettlercolonialism #whiteness #whiteprivilege #independenceday #4thofjuly

@resmaamenakem ‘s book My Grandmother’s hands is filled with amazing explanations and exercises to process and transform the racism and white supremacy within our nervous systems and bodies. My Grandmother’s Hands is a profound look and practical guide to the importance of, and pathway to, regulating our nervous systems in relation to race, racism, roles as allies and the specific healing different bodies must undergo to engage in integrity with this work. I couldn’t be more grateful or recommend this book more highly! #Mygrandmothershands #resmaamenakem #racism #colonization #nervoussystemregulation #somatichealing #allyship #settlercolonialism #canadiancolonialism #healingandactivism #antiracism #whiteness #whitesupremacy #decolonize