About Us
This farm is not just my work, it is our way of life.
My children (ages 12 and 15) are an active part of the farm experience, often helping host and create many of the farm activities alongside their friends.
It is part of a deeper vision of building a space where young people can learn, take responsibility, and grow in connection with the land, animals, and community.
Everything is supported and guided, but also rooted in trust, collaboration, and real-life learning.
Arthi Bala, RP (CRPO), CCC (CCTNB)
Hi, I’m Arthi.
My work as a therapist was not something I simply chose.
It is something I was shaped into through loss, love, pain, and a deep longing to understand what it means to truly heal.
A Loss That Changed Everything
When I was five years old, my mother died by suicide.
It is a sentence that still feels heavy to say.
At that age, I didn’t have the language to understand what had happened only the feeling of something important disappearing, and a quiet emptiness that followed me into my growing years.
As a teenager, that grief began to surface in deeper ways.
There were moments of isolation, and times when life itself felt overwhelming to hold.
Searching for Home
I believed that changing my environment might change how I felt.
Moving from India to North America, I hoped for a sense of belonging. Instead, I found myself navigating relationship struggles, the heartbreak of losing a baby, and an ongoing search for where I truly fit.
There were chapters of my life where things felt fragile, uncertain, and deeply human.
Love, Relationships, and the Reality of Healing
My journey through relationships including walking alongside a partner navigating addiction brought me face to face with the complexities of love, pain, disconnection, and repair.
It taught me that relationships are not just about connection
they are about understanding patterns, wounds, intimacy, and the delicate balance between masculine and feminine energies within ourselves and with each other.
This is what drew me into couples and sex therapy.
Not from theory but from lived experience.
From seeing how deeply we long to be seen, desired, understood, and safe in connection.
Healing Beyond Words
My healing did not come from talking alone.
It came through therapy, through movement, through being witnessed
and through something unexpected: animals and nature.
There is something deeply regulating about being in a space where nothing is demanded of you.
Animals do not ask you to explain yourself.
They meet you exactly where you are.
And in that space, something softens.
Something begins to open.
Why This Work Exists
Dancing Goat Therapy Farm was born from this understanding.
Not as a business but as a space that I wish existed when I needed it most.
A place where healing feels:
less clinical
more human
connected to nature
supported by animals
grounded in real life experiences
Here, I work with individuals, couples, children, and families integrating psychotherapy, relational work, and nature-based approaches.
The Life I Choose to Live
Today, I live a life that once felt impossible.
I spend parts of the year between Canada and India, unschooling my children, traveling, and intentionally choosing a slower, more connected way of living.
I believe deeply in community, in returning to basics, and in creating spaces where families can experience a different rhythm of life one that allows for presence, connection, and healing.
This philosophy is not separate from my work it is woven into everything I offer.
From My Story to Yours
I know what it feels like to carry grief.
To feel disconnected.
To search for something that makes sense.
And I also know that healing does not happen all at once.
It happens in moments
in safe spaces,
in connection,
in being seen without judgment.
You don’t have to have it all figured out to begin.
Come as you are.