Welcome to the Four Winds of Healing of the Northern Shire.
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We appreciate your patience and understanding as we grow.
Four Winds of Healing is a holistic mental health, neurodivergent and trauma recovery provider using ever expanding healing modalities. Four Winds of Healing currently offers individual treatment, community treatments and educational sessions. We are pleased to serve Lac Ste Anne and Parkland County including Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Onoway, Alberta Beach, Alexis First Nation, Paul First Nation, Darwell, Gunn and Edmonton.
We are also the visionary behind Roots & Branches, and intensive family trauma and addiction community. Our mission is to support families to heal trauma at its root, break generational cycles, help families thrive, and reduce systemic dependency on crisis-based services. We sustain this work by modeling self reliance through corporate wellness revenue and diversified internally generated streams, which strengthens program integrity and protects Indigenous sovereignty. We join the ranks of many who are advancing systemic change, creating healthier families, workplaces and communities for all.
Our Vision
Reimagining Care: A Call to Heal, Not Just Manage
For too long, our systems—education, child welfare, healthcare, and mental health—have been built on rigid, standardized frameworks that don’t reflect the complexity of human lives. But healing, growth, and trauma recovery are not one-size-fits-all.
Raising children with unique needs while living through the challenges of poverty gave me a front-row seat to how deeply these systems can fail and even harm those they are meant to serve. Often, they weren’t built with healing in mind. And while many compassionate professionals work within these systems, their hands are often tied by policies that prioritize structure over support, efficiency over empathy, and procedure over science.
Rather than supporting people in times of crisis, these systems tend to respond only when symptoms become unmanageable. We wait until people are drowning before we throw them a line—if one is available at all. Instead of addressing the roots of trauma, we focus on short-term fixes. Instead of investing in real healing, we spend hundreds of billions to managing dysfunction.
These systems often leave professionals burned out, overwhelmed by the powerlessness they feel working within structures that don’t allow for real change. In order to survive the system themselves, many lose their capacity to care—not because they don’t want to, but because the system doesn’t make space for it. Over time, this creates a more inhumane society—one where systemic harm is perpetuated not just by design, but by the exhaustion and disconnection of those within it. The system itself becomes part of the trauma story.
Our prisons, hospitals, and social services are filled not because people are inherently broken, but because they were never given the right support to thrive in the first place. And while there are many programs in our society that do good work, they are also fragmented, full of gaps, and insufficient or inaccessible for some of the most vulnerable people.
We believe that regulated people build stronger communities. When people feel safe, supported, and empowered, they engage in their communities, build connections, and create meaningful contributions. We believe that at the core, humans are good. It is only when we are in a desperate fight for survival that dysfunction—whether in the form of harming others, self-destruction, or greed—takes hold. People who feel secure do not need to manipulate or take from others. But when basic needs—safety, connection, dignity—are unmet, we see the worst of what humanity is capable of. We all pay the price of this. But there is a better way.
A New Approach: Roots & Branches Family Healing Community
Roots & Branches was created to do what the system does not: to heal instead of manage, to build instead of break, and to restore instead of control or punish. Through lived experience, research, and hands-on practice, we have built a model that is flexible, diverse, and fills the gaps left by traditional systems.
Our approach sees the whole person, the whole family, and the whole community as part of the healing process. We work outside the constraints of standardized, ineffective systems to provide trauma-informed, individualized care that meets people where they are. Our entire model is a paradim shift.
Healing can only come from within. By meeting people where they are—rather than forcing them into a mold—we can build them up and change the trajectory of their future. True healing happens when we honor the uniqueness of each person’s journey, not when we ask them to conform to a broken model.
This isn’t just about addressing trauma—it’s about changing the way we support families, empower individuals, and create lasting change. It’s about shifting from a crisis-based system to one that gets to the root of suffering and offers real solutions.
Join Us in the Movement to Help Heal Families
Trauma, anxiety and depression do not have to be a life sentence. The system has failed too many for too long. It’s time for something different.
- Donate to help fund holistic trauma healing.
- Partner with us to create real systemic change.
- Share our mission and be part of the movement.
Every action counts. Together, we can rewrite the story—for this generation and the next.
I believe there is ALWAYS Hope.
I believe in Empowerment.
I believe in Grace.
I believe in Integrity.
I believe there is Purpose.
I believe EVERYTHING is an Opportunity.
I believe in HEALING!!!
I invite you to explore the website to see what we are all about. Let me, Lianne White R.Ac, know if you have any specific areas of interest, I’m always looking for ways to better meet the mental, emotional and spiritual needs of the communities I serve. I love to support my clients through the many transitions of life, both past and present. I encourage you to follow and share my Facebook Page for updates. Or Subscribe to our newsletter. In a society where we are constantly bombarded with information, I promise to be considerate of your mental health by not overwhelming your inbox.
“Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty.
Enjoy the beauty of becoming.
When nothing is certain, anything is possible.”
Gold In the Shadows
There is a space where mind body and spirit meet. In this vast space is a beautiful landscape, always in flux, never still but full of stillness. A land of mystery lost in symbols waiting to be discovered. Where time stands still, where yesterday and today are one, and both can be unwoven. For in this place the dreams of tomorrow are found. It is a place of total silence where every particle longs to be heard, and will speak to any brave enough to enter. It is a land of pure truth and pure dilution twisted together as one. It speaks of battles lost, of courage found and the hope of a rebuild. It speaks of despair and hope, of chaos and total purpose misunderstood, of betrayal and trust, of confusion and clarity yet to come. This land is now the playground of an explorer and curious wonderer too weary for the journey. The heaviness of ions weights down, my feet drag through a sludge so thick but we cannot stop. I am not alone, for in me is the strength generations. The call of thousands pushes me on. So once again I enter this land of shadows, wondering what gold is to be found this time?
– Lianne White
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