“You don’t fit the mold because you were born to break it.”

🌱 You know we live in deeply challenging and transformational times. You can see it and feel it all around you. You long painfully to be a part of the change, seeing the systemic ills, desperate to do something, feeling a calling, but you are blocked. You’re wounded and traumatized. Your environment limits you. You’re stuck. You’re in conflict with yourself or others. You’re lost. “If only I lived in a village,” you think. You know you need the multi-faceted consistency of relationship that can help you heal and grow through your personal challenges and rise into who you know you are meant to be, but cannot yet quite grasp.

You are an active or would-be change-maker feeling often like you’re in a desert. You need a watering hole to nourish. You need relief, mentoring, guidance, holding, and healing. You know the teachings and practices are in your ancestry. They are a birthright to the whole of humanity, but they are beyond your grasp. You’ve tried traditional talk therapy, different workshops, sought different experiences that bring you beauty and meaning, but nothing seems to crest the edge of that elusive threshold and help you step fully into yourself.

You long for something old, ancient, and connected to lineage. You long to settle into a trustworthy and experienced perspective, and to feel that you are cared for in heart, mind, body, spirit, and soul. You know that if you just got what you need, you’d be the help for others you see they need too.

You’d jump to make that bargain, if you’re healed you’d help others too, but you don’t know how.

Testimonials:

 “Matt McKinney’s grounded presence is a nourishing balm to the heart. His counselling gifts, methods and skills have anchored me back to my connection to self-worth and belonging. From the moment you arrive into his caring space, there is a deep land-based wisdom present in the room, in the field. His steadfast commitment to ever-growing his own connection to self, to teachings, to his teachers, to the Earth can be felt immediately. I was able to rest around the hearth-fire he creates as a counsellor, to be witnessed and held up inside my own innate resiliency and capacity, rewoven back to my own understanding of what it is to belong as human on this earth. I recommend sitting with Matt to anyone seeking deeper connection to themselves, to anyone seeking gentle but potent guidance on the journey of becoming whole.”- Client MM 

“Matt is a skillful, compassionate therapist. I worked with Matt during a very difficult time in my life. In our sessions, I felt deeply seen, supported, listened to, and safe to be honest with Matt and myself. Matt helped me tremendously to understand myself better and to move forward in positive directions. Thank you, Matt!” -L.G. 

“During my series of regular bi-weekly counselling sessions with Matt McKinney, over a few months that felt extremely productive for me, we explored together every worry, concern or uncertainty that I brought forth as I faced what felt like an uncertain future. Matt guided me into a level of clarity and empowerment I had never dreamed possible. He is a discerning listener. During our sessions I always felt perfectly safe, very well heard, and surprisingly well-understood, gaining insights and a level of self-confidence that I’d only imagined possible for myself.” – Client DL

“Matt is an excellent listener, through our sessions he provided deep reflections that helped me to let go and forgive myself and others. His work is rooted in compassion and I highly recommend his services.”- Client LM