Youphoria Consulting

Youphoria ~ the experience (or affect) of pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness.

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Why Youphoria?

Youphoria Consulting is the culmination of our consultants’ experiences as 2S/LGBTQ+ people who research, practice and live within the complex and nuanced systems where accessing affirming spaces, services and people takes place. As tensions rise, it becomes increasingly important to create identity-affirming practices, and through this we strive to disrupt the rhetoric of challenge, tragedy and struggle. Although yes - 2S/LGBTQ+ populations use resilience to overcome various forms of discrimination - there is also joy, happiness and brilliance that the community inherently has. By tapping into these strengths, we are confident that your workplace, organization or business will not only be more affirming for 2S/LGBTQ+ populations, but you will be able to do so with a sense of pride and joy.

What We Do

We support staff, leaders, managers, healthcare workers, service users, and workplaces in creating and upholding an environment where folks who are Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (2S/LGBTQ+) and beyond can thrive, as they are meant to. We are pleased to offer education sessions, lunch and learn sessions, and interactive workshops, all with the goal of increasing awareness and providing actionable take-aways.

As occupational therapists, we also work with 2S/LGBTQ+ clients and their families when school, work, play, socializing, self-care, routines and other meaningful and important parts of life become challenging or interrupted. As a holistic health profession, we look at the whole picture - the person in the context of their life, the environments where they carry out their life, and the roles and tasks that are important to them.

Identity-affirming actions can take many forms - we invite you to book a free consultation to discuss if our services are right for you.

Our services

  • Education

    Sessions designed to dive into understanding 2SLGBTQ+ identities, experiences, common barriers and actionable steps towards allyship and advocacy. These sessions are longer and more in-depth than the Lunch and Learn sessions.

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  • Workshops

    In-person interactive sessions that are tailored to your workplace needs such as working through conflict, case studies, problem solving and discussing tangible actions at different levels.

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  • Lunch & Learn

    A 45 minute presentation introducing 2SLGBTQ+ identities, basics of inclusive language, identity-affirming strategies and a 15 minute dedicated Q&A.

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  • Occupational Therapy

    Whether related to gender-affirming care, coming into a new identity, life transition, disability, mental health, chronic condition, injury or many other reasons that our activities get interrupted - occupational therapy supports people to get back to or discover what they want and need to do.

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Who We Are

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    Holly Reid

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    Kirby Way

More About Us

Bring youphoria into your business.

Are you curious about the role of occupational therapy in gender-affirming care? Let’s chat about it.

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