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Mostly Salish Consulting lies in the balance between head and heart. Research and Therapy are our two passions.

Carrie Reid, Registered Art Therapist Mostly Salish Consulting began in 1998: half whim and half desperation as Carrie Reid took a leap of faith and left her real job at Malaspina University-College. In the fall of 1998 Carrie began working on her Master of Arts in Conflict Analysis and Management at Royal Roads University and at the same time set out on the precarious limb of self-employment with a 386K laptop and some combination of determination and fear.

The company operated out of a garage—and Carrie traveled locally doing small contracts, facilitation and training. Some days the fear of having enough income to pay the bills was real. In the summer of 1999 though, things took off.

Carrie worked on contract with the Ministry of Education as a Regional Coordinator for Aboriginal Education. This seemed to further open floodgates and Mostly Salish Consulting began what has become a successful business operating across Canada.

In 2002 Carrie began training as an Art Therapist and branched into more facilitation and therapy with our people, most often elders. In 2005 she officially became a Registered Art Therapist and also began work towards a PhD in Expressive Arts Therapies at the European Graduate School in Leuk Switzerland. http://www.egsuniversity.ch/
Art yard space

Mostly Salish Garden

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associates

Over the years the work has shifted the business has grown. Carrie has found it necessary to subcontract work. So now Mostly Salish has several Associates who help meet the growing demand for Aboriginal people helping Aboriginal people. These incredible people who make up the Mostly Salish Associates include...

~ Rupert Arcand, BEd

- Jeff Bob

- Nola Jeffrey, BA

- Yvonne Rigsby-Jones

- Gary Simpson

~ Carol White