Leesa Renée Hall

Mental Health Advocate, Inner Field Trip®

I'm a mental health advocate with an interest in helping us protect and improve our mental wellness during these tense and tough times. I'm completing a graduate degree in counselling psychology and working towards becoming a licensed therapist.

Media

3 Things Pandemic Living Has Changed that May Be Affecting Your Mental Wellness

Is pandemic living driving up your anxiety? Are you feeling as if living through the pandemic is a form of trauma? Stumble bravely with Leesa as she shares the 3 personal items that have changed that may be affecting your mental wellness and some tips on how to protect your emotions during this tough and ever-changing time.

What are unconscious biases (and why should you even care)?

What are unconscious biases? How do they differ from systemic biases? How are unconscious biases formed? Why should we even care? Stumble bravely with Leesa as she shares answers to these questions.

Become Fluent In the Language of Your Mental Wellness

Talking about mental wellness is nothing to be ashamed of, but what are the clues that inform you that your mental wellness needs improvement? #StumbleBravely® with Leesa Renée Hall as she shares why becoming fluent in the language of your mental wellness is the most important skill you can develop during these uncertain times.

Identity, Algorithms, and Your Authentic Soul

Awarepreneurs, August 28, 2017Radio/Podcast

URL: https://www.awarepreneurs.com/podcast/2017/8/28/ep-012-identity-algorithms-and-your-authentic-soul

In this episode, Paul Zelizer, founder of Awarepreneurs, talks with Leesa Renee Hall, author, futurist, and speaker. Leesa has had great success over the years as a technology thought leader and online marketing expert. This interview explores how technology and social media algorithms are shaping our lives - often in ways that are not in alignment with our true purpose - and how expressive writing can help us reconnect with and live from our authentic soul.

Knitting website's war on Trump forces crafting community to confront racism

The Guardian, June 25, 2019Online

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/25/knitting-is-political-how-trump-forced-the-craft-community-to-confront-racism

The knitting community may be seen as apolitical, but a conversation has been building over race, hate speech and the president of the United States writes Kari Paul for The Guardian.

Systemic Bias vs Implicit Bias: Why the Difference Matters When Reviewing the Report by the Ontario Human Rights Commission on Racial Profiling by the Toronto Police Services

Medium, December 10, 2018Online

URL: https://medium.com/@leesareneehall/systemic-bias-vs-implicit-bias-why-the-difference-matters-when-reviewing-the-report-by-the-e2fdd8da6574

The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) released an interim report in December 2018 looking at racial profiling and discrimination by Toronto police toward the city’s black community. Although the light is being shed on implicit and unconscious biases with the Toronto Police Department (TPD), understanding the difference between systemic and unconscious biases is critical to knowing that this problem is for all of us to solve.

Biography

Leesa Renée Hall is a mental health advocate with a deep interest in human behaviour and psychology. She's the Founder and Lead Tour Guide of Inner Field Trip®, a community helping Highly Sensitive, Highly Perceptive, Deep Feeling and Neurodivergent people explore unconscious biases so they protect their energy, be on the side of justice, and become better ancestors. As a counselling psychology graduate student, Leesa uses evidence based methods, such as play, music, expressive arts, and expressive writing to help her clients meet their Inner Oppressor so they decolonize and deconstruct while enhancing their self-awareness and self-compassion. Her advice have been featured in The Guardian and American Express OPEN, along with television, radio and podcast appearances. You can find out more about Leesa and the Inner Field Trip® community by going to www.innerfieldtrip.com.

Expertise

  • expressive writing
  • expressive arts
  • music therapy
  • ancestry research
  • systemic bias
  • anti-bias
  • implicit bias
  • unconscious bias
  • generational trauma
  • historical trauma

Education/Éducation

  • Yorkville University
    Counselling Psychology
    Masters, 2024
  • University of Toronto (OISE)
    History
    Masters

    Completed one year, but then innovation came calling, so I withdrew from the program before completing my degree.


  • York University
    History (Honours)
    Bachelor of Arts, 1997