About Me:

Who am I?

Hi, I’m Azra Poe (they/them/she/her). I work as a somatic therapist based in rural Nova Scotia, where I live off-grid working with the land. I pay attention to how much water I use to wash my dishes, not because I want to because I have to. My home and practice are rooted in slowness, care, and relationship—with land, with self, and with others and aften in contradiction to a fast paced world.

I hold a Master’s in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco. My training centered anti-oppressive, trauma-informed care and the belief that healing is political. Before private practice, I worked in community-based somatic therapy clinics and facilitated consent and harassment prevention programs in remote workplaces—because I believe collective healing matters just as much as individual healing.

My work is grounded in disability justice, anti-capitalist values, and the ongoing work of depathologizing distress. I don’t see diagnoses as life sentences—I see them as adaptations to environments that may have failed to meet your needs.

I live with my own mental health challenges, and I don’t pretend to have it all together. I’ll make mistakes. I’ll invite conversation, repair, and shared insight. Healing, for me, is not about perfection—it’s about being in relationship, noticing how we show up, and learning to trust what’s alive in us.

I see therapy as a space to explore liberation. To practice presence, healthy boundaries, and accountability. To unlearn the ways capitalism, white supremacy, and ableism have taught us to shrink, over-function, or disappear ourselves. I’m continually learning from my clients, my mentors, peers—especially those in disabled and queer communities who model what care and resistance can look like.

This work is both deeply personal and profoundly collective. I’m honored to walk alongside people on their path back to connection, body, and truth.