My Story

Founded by Nora Smyth, Join the Constellation is the culmination of my journey to elevate mental health care and build intentional community. As a clinician, my heart is in providing warm, authentic clinical supervision and transformative CEU training for practitioners looking to deepen their practice. My passion for systemic advocacy also led me to create the FLIRT advocacy shop—a space where self-care meets social action to support domestic violence awareness and survivor organizations.

I owe the clinician I am, the mother I am to my daughter, and my ability to give back to the community to the unwavering support of my parents. They are my ultimate anchor, and honestly, my absolute favorite love story. They met in New Zealand while both traveling the world, got engaged, and then spent months apart writing letters and talking on the phone while my dad finished his travels. They married six months later and remain deeply happy and in love to this day.

While you'll see a picture featured here of my wonderful mom and best friend—who, fun fact, was actually voted Ms. Sweetheart in high school!—our deep bond goes back generations. Through her passion for genealogy, we became certified members of the American-French Genealogical Society, tracing our lineage directly to two fiercely brave ancestral matriarchs.

We are the proud descendants of Marguerite Maddeleine Morisseau, a Fille à Marier who emigrated from France to New France in 1661 promised absolutely nothing but the raw possibility of a better life—and she took it. We are also descendants of Barbe Ménard, a Fille du Roi who arrived in 1669. These women endured terrifying transatlantic voyages and the brutal, freezing wilderness of a new world, acting as the fundamental pillars that built the very population and survival of their colony. It is that exact collective love, fierce grit, and unbreakable resilience—passed down from the women who came before us—that fuels my capacity to build this constellation of support for others today.