Sinéad Sullivan-Paul

is a trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming practitioner with a strong foundation in cultural integration, liberatory, body and land-based healing frameworks.

Sinéad identifies as a spiritual nomad, experienced in individual and group facilitation, ethical consultation, crisis intervention, and program development on every continent.

Passionate about somatic and inclusive modalities, Sinéad has been serving marginalized and system-impacted communities, including the Canadian houseless, incarcerated, Indigenous, and underserved youth for over 20 years. Her experiential wisdom as educator, facilitator, wilderness guide, and community counsellor, now culminates as licensed psychotherapy and spiritual care clinic.

She is author and presenter at this year’s Canadian Association for Spiritual Care National Conference. Her consultation work is in development of specialization certificate training programs for professional spiritual care providers and registered psychotherapists in safe and effective use of ceremony.

Current Research

Member of Canadian Association of Spiritual Care Sacred/Entheogenic Medicines Circle & Psychedelics Therapies Circle

Internal Family Systems, ACT, ethical frameworks for challenges associated with religion, meditation, leadership, power dynamics and spiritual ideas

Cultural competency for spiritual care practitioners in non-ordinary states of consciousness -MAPS Podcast

Indigenous Mindfulness & Neurodecolonization

Adverse events in contemplative experiences

Neurodivergence, creativity, liminal spaces, hallucinations, extra-sensory perception, precognition, ASD, ADHD.

Evidence-based psychotherapeutic frameworks for ethical engagement with spiritual spaces, retreats, ceremony, and land-based medicine. 

Cultural Interventions Repertoire

Protection practices & Indigenous Intellectual and land property rights of Maasai in Kenya

Land-based communication w/ Chippewa First Nations of Georgina Island

Non-violence in times of political persecution, physical and technological lockdown w/ Kashmiris

Body Protection Protocols and the Male Gaze w/ Muslim women of Zanzibar, Tanzania

Land stewardship and reciprocity for protection and healing w/ Māori of New Zealand

Intergenerational trauma processing w/ descendants of residential school survivors

Ethics policy, protocol, and reclamation of power after predatory behaviour w/ Zen Buddhist Monastery

Abolitionist labour rights against subordination of first generation and newly arrived Canadians

what a session may include:

Somatic Processing

Mindfulness-based modalities rooted in harm-reduction

Spiritual development stages

left/right brain communication

Recovery from adverse events of spiritual experiences

integrating non-ordinary states of consciousness

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Internal Family Systems

  • Culturally-rooted, evidence-based mindfulness practices can help to create more harmony, ease, and communication in our relationships and environments.

  • We look at relationships, parts of self, and values as means to meeting our needs and the demands of daily life. Breathwork, pendulation/titration, and tapping into neurological reward systems are some of the ways we can approach difficulty with sustained progress.

  • Using trauma-informed practices, we explore the cause and effect of our decisions. Bringing awareness to our internal compass helps check which behaviours, practices, habits, relationships are congruent with our values. By learning to discern between internal triggers and external patterns we can know what step may lead us to betray ourselves, and which may bring us closer to the peace and clarity we are longing for.