Tiffane Friesen, LCSW

I’m a therapist and social practice artist. I create spaces where people can come back into relationship with themselves and each other.

My work lives at the intersection of therapy, community, and creative practice. I work with people moving through grief, trauma, identity, and life transitions, drawing from EMDR, attachment-based, somatic, and expressive approaches. My background includes community mental health, hospice, and healing arts. I pay attention to how disconnection takes hold, not just within us, but in our relationships, communities, and the systems we’re living within.

I don’t believe people need to be fixed. I think most of us need space to be honest, to feel what’s actually there, and to not have to carry everything by ourselves.

Circles of Remembrance have been evolving since 2013, after the unexpected loss of my mother. I began making mandalas as a way to get through it, gathering materials, arranging them, and trying to make sense of something that didn’t make sense.

What started as a personal daily ritual slowly became something shared, and over time grew into a practice that I now facilitate with others.

These circles aren’t only about grief. They’re about stepping outside of the roles and expectations we’ve been shaped by, even for a moment, and returning to something more honest underneath.

At the core of it is a simple belief. Underneath what we’ve been told we are, by culture, systems, and experience, there’s something more whole, more connected, and still there. This work is about remembering who we are and what connects us, to ourselves, to each other, and to something larger.