WHO WE ARE
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Founder & PAT Professional
Kaitlin is a born and raised Yukoner, adventurer, clinical counsellor, and a student of love. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counselling with Psychedelic Assisted Therapist (PAT) training.
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Founder & PAT Professional
Emily is a long-time Yukoner, mother, clinician, and community organizer with a postgraduate diploma in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) currently pursuing a Master’s degree.
Taproot Wellness is inspired by Emily’s Master’s Thesis Establishing Safe and Ethical Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Services in Yukon in the Absence of a Regulatory Framework.
Values Aligned Work
Kaitlin Stephens & Emily Hoefs are trained professionals in the psychedelic assisted therapy field.
They work with other healthcare providers with the aim of providing culturally appropriate, trauma informed, integrative care. They strive to provide safe and caring spaces for all clients, including LGBTQIA2S+ community members.
Taproot’s commitment to working in responsible, reciprocal, and respectful ways is paramount as they subscribe to the Indigenous worldview of relationality between all things. Emily & Kaitlin are grateful to the original stewards of these lands, the 14 Yukon First Nations, and specifically the local Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwach’an Council. They consider payment on a sliding scale as part of their actions towards reparations.
Our Namesake
The taproot is the main source of health in plant life. It acts as an anchor connecting the plant between the earth and the light it needs. Its many offshoots burrow and transport nutrients that feed the entire plant. The rootlets reach wide in complex patterns, which keeps the entire structure secure and grounded, no matter the conditions above ground. It is a system unseen. A hidden world. And yet the health and strength of the taproot is a direct reflection of the state of the plant or tree as a whole. Buds, flowers, leaves and fruit bearing branches are the result of much work done underneath what we see.