A queer-led space for bodywork,
therapy and counselling
welcome to SPARK
We are a collective space where care, creativity, and support come together. We offer bodywork, therapy, and counselling in an environment that acknowledges queer and marginalized experiences. Whether you’re seeking care, a place to practice, or room to create - you’re welcome here.
Find a Practitioner
Connect with bodyworkers, counsellors, and therapists offering professional care for your well-being.
Join Us as a Member
Are you a practitioner looking for something more than just a workspace? Find out how to join our collective.
host an event at SPARK
Looking for a space for your workshop, artistic project or event? Rent our space for the weekend
Support the Collective
Like many alternative, anti-capitalist spaces, we often struggle to cover rent, repairs, and basic costs. Your support helps us move from survival to thriving, so we can continue offering accessible, donation-based or free healing practices to our wider community!
About Us
Existing as we are is inherently political: our work challenges systems of oppression and is grounded in intersectionality, queerness, body-based healing, and community action. At SPARK, you can find support that holds your full dignity and worth, and a collective that makes space for the complexity of your lived experience.
Many of us offer sliding scale pricing to make access to care more possible while still surviving within capitalism.
From the perspective of bodywork and therapy: we go within working with our inner worlds and our body; supporting you to slow down, feel, rest, find joy and pleasure, and be seen exactly as you are. We believe that care begins with honoring our own needs and boundaries so that we can show up fully for one another.
Values
Queer
We embrace queerness to live authentically, rejecting mono- and heteronormativity, sexual and gender politics.
Joy
Our way of reclaiming agency, by engaging in activities and interactions that are fun, curious, playful, and pleasurable.
Community
We practice solidarity by existing, supporting, and collaborating with and for communities such as queer, TIN, BIPOC, migrants, neurodivergent, displaced and lower-income people.
Resilience
Making it through under pressure and/or in hard times as a collective, leaning on one another and honoring each person’s capacities.
Care
We offer empathic care through co-regulation to each other and people who find us.
Resistance
We make care work as accessible as possible while also trying to survive capitalism ourselves.
Critical Thinking
Our way of understanding and approaching society, observing, analyzing, and questioning different power structures that affect people’s bodies and minds.
Intersectionality
We aim to dismantle privilege and oppression through offering a variety of practices at the intersection of art, talk therapy, and bodywork.