{"id":325,"date":"2026-04-02T16:37:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/?page_id=325"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:53:19","slug":"practice-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/counsellingconcepts.ca\/decolonizing-health-healing-care\/practice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice 2 Decolonization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Practice 2 Decolonization: Centring Indigenization<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

By Sandra Collins, Melissa Jay, Gwendolyn Villebrun, Randy White<\/em><\/em>, and<\/em><\/em> Jamie Consoli<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book: Decolonizing Health, Healing, and Care<\/a>
Published: June 1, 2025
Publisher: Counselling Concepts<\/a>
Chapter DOI: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.71446\/ud38495793<\/a>
Book ISBN: 978-0-9738085-6-8
Format: ePub
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In Practice 2 Decolonization Melissa invites readers into a learning and unlearning circle to open and hold space for all as both teachers and learners. The authors acknowledge that helping professions have offered, and continue to offer, a limited view of health and healing based most often on dominating, eurowestern worldviews. They reflect on the ways coloniality is threaded through the current theory and practice of counselling and psychology. They then paint a picture of what it might look like to apply the principle of decolonization to the theory and practice of counselling and psychology, inviting consideration of how our individual and collective vision of health and healing may be defined (i.e., what possibilities are included) and confined (i.e., what possibilities are excluded) based on our worldviews. The authors define decolonization as a commitment to upholding reciprocity, respect, and care for all our relations (humans, animals, the land, and ecosystems). Decolonization calls for an unlearning of the practices of colonization. The call for reconciliation is an invitation into proper and healthy relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples based on mutuality, respect for dignity, and inclusivity. By centring and uplifting Indigenous worldviews, the authors aim to enhance cultural safety and care within the professions of counselling and psychotherapy. Indigenizing, in this sense, is about centring Indigenous-led, supported, culturally relevant, and responsive practice for Indigenous clients. The authors link decolonial practice to the \u201cCalls to Action\u201d of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sandra and Melissa are honoured to profile the contributions of the following co-authors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n