ARTFEELS COUNSELLING AND ART THERAPY
Come as you are,
from wherever you are,
to a soft place to land and heal,
where you can be
whole-heartedly human.
🤍 healing ❤️ is 💚 liberation 🖤 is
🤍 healing ❤️ is 💚 liberation 🖤 is
A Chinese femme person with dyed green hair sits on a wooden bench, smiling with their arms relaxed in their lap. They have tattoos on their arms, and a lush forest is visible in the background.
Hello! My name is Xu Wang (they/them) and I am the creator of Artfeels Counselling and Art Therapy.
Colonially, I’m known as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC # 14331) and an Art Therapist.
I’m a “therapish” who blends anti-oppressive, decolonizing practices to support folks from the global majority, as well as trans, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and parenting communities. My approach is grounded in nuance—anti-carceral, anti-binary, and deeply curious about each person’s unique experience.
I aim to create a space where your identity is respected, your story is honored, and there’s room for openness, vulnerability, and a little bit of magick along the way.
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Talk and Art Therapy
I offer talk and art therapies, and I’m trained in modalities often described—perhaps through a colonial lens—as feminist, narrative, somatic, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapies.
At heart, though, my most authentic practice is rooted in Taoist teachings. In the therapy room, this looks like tending to both the Yin and the Yang — attending not only to what you say, but also to what remains unspoken yet is expressed through your body, energy, and presence.
Some might recognize this as akin to shadow work or depth psychology, informed by shamanic and mythological lineages that invite exploration of the unconscious as a path to transformation. Yet in our work together, the process is shaped less by fixed frameworks and more by a shared felt sense — an intuitive, emergent unfolding guided by your body’s wisdom, ancestral knowing, and the relational field we co-create.
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Hormone Readiness Assessment
As a trans-affirming practitioner, I offer hormone readiness assessment (AKA Hormone Care Planning) for clients seeking gender-affirming care, following WPATH guidelines to provide compassionate, informed, and individualized support throughout their journey.
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Consultation and Mentorship
I offer clinical supervision for practicum students and mentorship for community healers. My role is to support those seeking to decolonize care and radicalize psychotherapy, working together to dismantle systemic barriers.
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Community Building Workshops
I design and facilitate workshops on building value-based communities and collective spaces. Informed by my experiences as a queer mentor, multigenerational caregiver, and labour union activist, my work offers practical tools rooted in care ethics, labour equity, and disability justice. Through experiential learning, I support learners in practicing skills that strengthen collective spaces with accessible, sustainable approaches that foster empathy, accountability, and long-term care.