Cilla Holmes (she/her) is a parent, a registered counsellor and group facilitator, a multimodal artist and wild-foraged ink maker, and a nature-connection mentor and training consultant.  As an integrative practitioner certified in both expressive arts therapy and nature-based therapy, Cilla works from a somatic, ecological, and strength-based perspective. 

Cilla’s work is informed by her background in therapeutic and studio arts, wilderness skills and rite of passage work, and embodied play.  Her toolbox of therapeutic modalities includes somatic parts work, Jungian dream work, focusing-oriented psychotherapy, and solutions-oriented therapy.  Cilla completed her BA, MFA, and other postgrad certificate studies in literature, creative writing, grief and crisis counselling, and fine arts and design.  

Cilla grew up kayaking, writing stories, and making art on the traditional Wabanaki Dawnlands coastal territory of the Algonquin and Penobscot people.  As a sixth generation settler of Scottish, Irish, and Swedish descent, she holds gratitude for loon song at dusk, and for each day she spends in relationship with Coast Salish lands.

Email: cilla.thrivingroots@gmail.com

Booking Details

Our counselling team is not currently taking on any new clients - if you’re interested in a similar nature-based counselling approach check out our friends over at Human Nature Counselling.