Meet Josée
Founder of
Authentic Connection Psychotherapy & Reiki
The Heart Behind the Work
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My name is Josée Wright, and I am an RPN Psychotherapist devoted to creating spaces where truth, safety, and self-connection can return.
My work is rooted in honour — for you, your story, and the journey that shaped you.
I believe every person holds an innate wisdom that knows how to heal. My role is simply to help you slow down enough to listen — to notice the patterns, emotions, and protective parts that have been guiding your life, often quietly beneath the surface.
Many of us learned to survive by disconnecting from our truth — by people-pleasing, over-functioning, or carrying more than was ever ours to hold. Through curiosity and compassion, we begin to see these patterns not as flaws, but as evidence of strength, intelligence, and care. From there, we gently learn new ways of being — ones rooted in self-awareness, integrity, and choice.
My approach integrates the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical dimensions of healing. Together, we explore what alignment feels like — when your inner world begins to support your outer life. This work invites you to come home to yourself, to build resilience through awareness, and to restore the balance between caring for others and caring for your own heart.
In our time together, I hold space that is grounded, safe, and honouring.
You are never a problem to be solved.
You are a whole being in the process of remembering your truth.
This is not about perfection — it’s about presence.
It’s about learning to communicate with yourself and others in ways that are clear, kind, and real.
When we do that, we don’t just heal our pain — we transform the way we live, love, and lead.
Therapeutic Style
My approach is rooted in safety, curiosity, and honour — honour for you, your story, and the pace at which your healing unfolds.
Over the years, both my professional training and my own lived experience have shaped a way of working that is attuned, heart-centred, and grounded in presence. I believe healing happens through relationship — through being seen, understood, and met with compassion exactly where you are. Together, we create space for awareness to grow, truth to surface, and self-trust to return.
My personal journey has included many human experiences — loss and love, trauma and repair, moments of disconnection and profound reconnection. These experiences have become the soil from which my empathy, patience, and understanding continue to grow. They have taught me that true healing isn’t about perfection; it’s about learning to stay present with what is — to meet both pain and possibility with tenderness and truth.
I recognize patterns quickly — not to label or fix, but to bring them into awareness so you can begin to understand how they once protected you and how they might be transformed. Through this process, we gently invite the parts of you that have been silenced, guarded, or weary to return to connection.
It is my deepest honour to walk beside you — not as someone who has all the answers, but as someone who believes in your capacity to heal, to grow, and to remember your wholeness.
The Use of Spiritual Practices in Healing
and the Gentle Awareness of Spiritual Bypassing
Spiritual practices — such as meditation, breathwork, yoga, prayer, or positive intention — can be deeply supportive tools on the path of healing. They help us reconnect to our breath, body, and spirit, creating moments of stillness and presence that nurture balance and peace.
However, these practices can sometimes become a way of avoiding what truly needs to be felt or faced. Spiritual bypassing happens when we use light to avoid looking at what is tender or painful within us — when practices meant to connect us are unconsciously used to protect us from discomfort.
It’s not wrong or shameful — it’s simply a sign that a deeper layer is asking for our attention.
True healing invites us to stay curious about what lies beneath the calm surface. Meditation, affirmations, and breathwork can support us in meeting our pain — but they are not meant to replace the honest work of feeling, grieving, and understanding ourselves.
When we pair spiritual practices with self-awareness, reflection, and grounded support, they become powerful allies. They remind us that spirituality is not about transcending our humanity, but about embracing it — allowing both the light and the shadow to coexist in compassion and truth.
​Beliefs
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Healing begins with reconnection.
Many of our wounds stem from early disconnection — from ourselves and from the relationships that once shaped our sense of safety. Healing invites us to gently return to those places within, to restore self-trust, and to create new experiences of attunement, safety, and belonging. -
Safety is the foundation.
True healing happens in spaces where we feel seen, respected, and safe to be vulnerable. I believe safety allows truth to emerge and growth to unfold naturally — at your own rhythm and pace. -
Communication is healing.
Learning to express ourselves openly, honestly, and vulnerably — while remaining rooted in compassion — is both an art and a practice. Every honest conversation becomes a step toward freedom and connection. -
Every feeling has wisdom.
Emotions, behaviours, and reactions all carry messages. When we meet them with curiosity instead of judgment, they reveal what needs understanding, care, or release. -
You are the expert of your own life.
My role is not to direct, but to walk beside you as you rediscover your innate capacity to heal, make choices, and live in alignment with your truth. -
The body tells the truth.
Our physical symptoms often mirror what the heart and mind have been carrying. When we listen gently to the body’s signals, we can begin to restore balance and harmony from within. -
Society can shape our disconnection.
Many of our struggles are not individual failings but natural responses to systems and cultures that have not supported emotional safety or authenticity. Healing involves releasing those inherited narratives and reclaiming your right to live from truth rather than conditioning. -
Context matters.
We are each shaped by the environments, families, and cultures we come from. Empowerment begins when we start discerning what truly belongs to us and what was learned or inherited — and then choose differently, with awareness. -
Time alone doesn’t heal — awareness does.
Unfelt emotions don’t disappear; they wait for our attention. Healing asks us to turn inward with love, to listen to our needs, and to understand our attachments and history. With awareness, self-compassion, and presence, new pathways open. -
Triggers are teachers.
The moments that stir discomfort often point toward something still asking to be seen and soothed. Each trigger is an invitation to awareness, not a sign of failure. -
Awareness creates choice.
The old patterns were created for survival. When we begin to notice them, we can meet them with compassion and choose differently — not by rejecting who we were, but by honouring who we are becoming.
Let's Work Together
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
What I'm Passionate About
I am passionate about supporting others in coming home to themselves — in remembering that healing is not about becoming someone new, but about reconnecting with who you’ve always been beneath the layers of protection and survival.
This is the work of Self-Connection — learning to meet yourself with honesty, compassion, and curiosity. It’s about gently bringing awareness to the old systems of protection that once kept you safe, and choosing new ways of being that align with your truth.
Through our work together, you’ll learn to build a grounded, unconditional relationship with yourself by:
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🌱 Living with Intention — responding rather than reacting, guided by what truly matters.
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💫 Building Self-Trust — learning to honour your intuition and inner knowing.
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💗 Practicing Self-Compassion — meeting your humanity with kindness and patience.
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🌿 Connecting to Your Inner Guidance System — listening to the wisdom of your body, emotions, and spirit.
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🔆 Living from Your Core Values — aligning your choices with your truth.
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✨ Advocating for Your Needs — expressing what supports your well-being and balance.
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🌸 Setting Healthy Boundaries — creating space for safety, honesty, and authentic connection.
This journey is not about perfection — it’s about presence.
It’s about walking with awareness, honouring your story, and creating space for your most authentic self to lead the way.
Body Sensations and Awareness
Our bodies hold the stories of our lives — the moments of love, fear, protection, and survival. Together, we will gently bring awareness back to the body, learning to listen to its language with curiosity and compassion.
It is through feeling and presence — not avoidance — that authentic healing unfolds. Many of us have learned to disconnect from our bodies as an act of survival. In moments of pain or overwhelm, the body and spirit instinctively found ways to protect us: by numbing, shutting down, dissociating, or staying hyper-alert. These adaptations were not wrong — they were brilliant responses to what was once too much to bear.
Over time, those protective patterns can begin to shape how we relate to ourselves and others. What once kept us safe may now keep us distant from our emotions, our needs, and our truth.
Through our sessions, we’ll bring gentle attention to what the body is communicating — the sensations, tension, or stillness that arise — without judgment or rush. As you learn to listen and respond to your body’s signals with kindness, you begin to restore connection between your physical, emotional, and spiritual selves.
This process is not about fixing what is broken, but about honouring the wisdom that has always been there — and learning to trust your body again as a guide on your healing journey.
The Inner Child
Why the inner child? Because the part of us that learned how to love, fear, attach, and protect was formed long before we had words to explain it. Our earliest experiences — from the womb through childhood — shaped the way we see ourselves, relate to others, and navigate the world.
Much of what we carry today began in those formative years. When our caregivers were unable to meet us with emotional attunement, safety, or presence — often because of their own unhealed pain — our nervous systems adapted. We learned to protect rather than express, to please rather than need, to survive rather than thrive.
These early experiences might have shown up as:
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frequent anger or conflict in the home
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addiction, avoidance, or emotional unavailability
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various forms of neglect or abuse
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anxiety, hypervigilance, or emotional numbness
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over-responsibility or people-pleasing
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disconnection caused by technology, busyness, or emotional absence
Each of these experiences shaped how the inner child learned to find safety — and those early strategies often follow us into adulthood.
Reconnecting with your inner child isn’t about re-living the past. It’s about meeting those younger parts of you with compassion, curiosity, and care — offering them what they didn’t receive then: understanding, safety, and unconditional love.
In our work together, we gently bring awareness to these parts, allowing them to be seen and heard at a pace that feels safe. Through this process, you begin to repair the relationship within — creating space for more authenticity, freedom, and self-trust.
The Journey
Healing is not a destination — it’s a return.
A return to truth, to presence, and to the parts of yourself that have been waiting to be seen with compassion.
Within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, we explore what it means to meet life — and yourself — with awareness and gentleness. Together, we bring understanding to your emotions, patterns, and responses, helping you build a deeper sense of self-acceptance and clarity about what you need to thrive.
We can’t always control what life brings, but we can learn to move through it with greater ease and grace. The challenges that once felt heavy can become gateways to wisdom, resilience, and growth when met with awareness and support.
The healing journey is not about seeking acceptance from others — it’s about learning to accept yourself, to honour where you come from, and to extend love toward the parts of you that once had to protect and hide. Those very parts hold the key to your wholeness.
This is your path — an individual journey of reconnection and remembering.
It’s not about becoming someone new; it’s about coming home to who you already are.