Honouring Home: Clinical Counselling
Beyond the Therapy Room
Healing and learning don’t stop at the therapy room door.
Here you’ll find community fundraisers, podcasts, research, and writing that shape my practice and support a slow, grounded, and reflective approach to care.
Anniversay
Fundraiser!
Honouring Home Clinical Counselling is celebrating one year of offering mental health support to queer, gender-diverse, (dis)abled folks and allies in the community.
To celebrate, join us for a gentle, hands-on afternoon of wet felting, reflection, and community connection. Together, we’ll create a beautiful felted vessel while exploring the idea of what we hold—our experiences, relationships, responsibilities, emotions, and the people we care for.
Through the process of shaping wool, we’ll consider how we can soften, make room, and expand our capacity for what we hold, while recognizing that we don’t have to hold everything alone.
In keeping with Honouring Home’s commitment to community care, all proceeds after material and venue costs will be donated to Island Sexual Health to support their programs serving queer and gender-diverse communities.
No art experience necessary. Come as you are, make something with your hands, and share in a conversation about capacity, care, and community.
Only 10 spots available. Workshop is intended for Adults.
*Please arrive between 2:50pm-3:00pm - Little Gladstone Studio - Enter through back of the building - Wheelchair Accessible*
$300 was donated!
Thank you Everyone!
Socials
The Waiting Game:
Why We Can't Stand Waiting Around
June 3, 2026 | 21:00 | S1:E114
Episode Summary
Do you have a handle on how to wait for things without getting irritated?
Nisreen Abdel-Majid spun her vent sessions on "hate having to wait" into an episode unravelling the psychology behind anticipation.
Dillon Lewchuk, Founder of Honouring Home: Clinical Counselling, unpacks what goes on in our brains when we wait, and suggests coping strategies for the anxieties, impatience, and potentially negative narrative-building that come along with the in-between times.
From sitting through TV commercials to waiting in line for the washroom, Reflections team members Kelly MacDonald, Beth Deer, and Grace Scoffield give us food for thought on the seemingly minor waiting scenarios that manage to make major impacts on us.
And we hear about Nisreen's lifetime realities of chronically waiting for specialist appointments to be scheduled, waiting for hours in waiting rooms, endless delays on public transit, and other waiting situations exacerbated faced by people living with disabilities.
Podcasts
White Lies:
Pulling Apart the Social Glue of our Little Deceits
March 19, 2026 | 25:00 | S1:E84
Episode Summary
From sparing someone’s feelings to smoothing over awkward social moments, most of us tell white lies more often than we confess to.
Are these little lies harmless or is honesty really the best policy? Nisreen Abdel-Majid unpacks the psychology behind white lies.
Clinical Counsellor Dillon Lewchuk explains why we all feel compelled to bend the truth and offers us empathy to help us sit with these social choices.
Jim Krysko shares his humble opinions as a parent; when he believes honesty matters, and when a small white lie is more appropriate for the situation.
We hear white lie confessions from friends and colleagues, as well as their justifications behind those very human moments.
Sometimes the truth is simple… Sometimes it’s complicated.
The Anxiety of Small Talk:
Why Simple Conversations Don’t Always Feel Simple
November 14th, 2025 | 28:00 | S1:E34
Episode Summary
For some of us, chatting about the weather or weekend plans comes easily, and for others it’s a source of stress and self-doubt. Why does something as ordinary as small talk spark such big feelings? Nisreen Abdel-Majid gets to the bottom of small talk psychology. Arslan Abakarov is a software developer at AMI who grew up in Russia where small talk is never the norm. Elysia Yardley lets us in on her perspectives on communication and connection, as someone who works in Human Resources at AMI, along with her tips navigating chit-chat at work. Dillon Lewchuk, Clinical Counsellor, Art Therapist, and Educator helps us get to the core of small talk, by unpacking the deeper emotional layers behind everyday interactions. From cultural differences to social anxiety, let's figure out the complexities under surface conversations.
Title: “Working Therapeutically with Gender & Sexually Diverse Clients"
Time: 1-3 Hours
Presentation: Virtual or In Person
Abstract: This presentation will introduce a trauma-informed framework aimed at enhancing clinicians' knowledge, skills, and comfort when working with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in therapeutic settings. Clinicians will gain a deeper understanding of the complexities faced by this marginalized community, with a focus on the historical and ongoing oppressive impacts of social, educational, religious, and governmental institutions in what is now called Canada. Topics such as gender, sexuality, language, best practices, intersectionality, potential risks, barriers, interventions, and case studies will be explored throughout. The goal is for clinicians to engage in reflexive practice and adopt a mindset of curiosity, integrating theory, history, and lived experiences into their work to provide better understanding and support for this ever-evolving and diverse community.
Fee: Depending on time and number of participants
*Email for inquiries*
