Lauren Gula
RCC (They/Her)
Collaborative · Authentic & Human · Gentle Warm & Validating · Welcomes Humour · Challenges Clients · Client-Led · Skills & Tools · Mind-Body · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
LAUREN’S BIO & BOOKING →
Lauren brings a collaborative, open and human presence to counselling. They allow time for you to settle in without pressure, and become comfortable, with space for harder and deeper conversations once trust is built. Lauren brings lived experience as a longtime performer and artist, queer and neurodivergent person, and brings social justice, compassion and body acceptance into her work. The strives to create a space where each person can be fully themselves without the need to filter or hide who they are.
SPECIALTIES Neurodivergence · LGBTQIA+ · Anxiety & Panic · OCD · Depression · Burnout · Attachment · Family Relationships · Inner Child Work · Life Transitions
APPROACHES Somatic · DBT · IFS · Fat Liberation & Body Acceptance · Mindfulness · Anti-Oppressive · Narrative · Emotion Focused · Attachment-Focused · ACT · Trauma Informed · Sex Positive · Neurodivergent-Affirming
Tanya Griffiths
RCC, Relationship/Couples Counsellor (She/Her)
Collaborative · Authentic & Human · Gentle Warm & Validating · Humour · Challenges Clients · Can Listen Without Fixing · Skills & Tools · Mind-Body · Land & Spirit Connection · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
TANYA’S BIO & BOOKING →
Tanya brings a calm, grounded presence to the room and provides spaciousness for whatever feelings arise. She doesn't rush to tell you what to do, but stays curious about what matters to you and where you want to go. Tanya is especially drawn to supporting people through the complicated places where we can feel lost, alone or untethered, including when we're caught between cultures, family expectations, old roles and who we're becoming. Her work also makes room for connection with the body, the land and your own inner knowing.
Tanya offers counselling in English and Tagalog.
SPECIALTIES Life Transitions · Relationships & Attachment · Belonging & Loneliness · Anxiety · LGBTQIA+ & BIPOC Clients · Immigration & Multi-Cultural Experiences · Intergenerational Trauma · Cultural Identity · Family Distress · Substance Use · Non-Traditional Relationships
APPROACHES Somatic · Culturally Sensitive · Emotionally Focused · Humanistic · Parts Work · CBT · Trauma-Informed · Humanistic · Neuroaffirming · Relational Justice-Centred · Decolonial · Culturally Sensitive · Spirituality · Land-Based
Nicole Atkins
RCC, EMDR Practitioner (She/Her)
Collaborative · Validating · Humour · Human · Growth-Oriented · Comfortable Challenging Clients · Directive & Guides Sessions · Logic & Mindset · Skills & Tools · Mind-Body · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
NICOLE’S BIO & BOOKING →
Nicole comes to counselling with a background as an engineer, bringing a naturally curious, thoughtful way of looking at how things work, including the patterns that can keep us stuck. She is also a parent and is comfortable working with the messier, more complicated parts of life, including complex trauma and times when old ways of coping aren't working anymore. Nicole offers space to process while also stepping in with direction when that’s useful.
SPECIALTIES Complex Trauma & PTSD · Anxiety · Life Transitions · Grief & Loss · Burnout · Relationship Challenges · Feeling Stuck · Self-Worth & Identity · Traumatic Birth & Miscarriage
APPROACHES EMDR · Anti-Oppressive & Trauma-Informed · CBT · Attachment-Focused · Sex-Positive · Mindfulness · Kink-Friendly · Parts Work
Esther Wei
RCC (She/Her)
Gentle · Collaborative · Humour · Authentic & Human · Can Challenge Clients & Guide Sessions · Can Listen Without Fixing · Skills & Tools · Action-Oriented · Mind-Body · Emotional Focus
ESTHER’S BIO & BOOKING →
Esther brings a warm, gentle and collaborative presence to counselling. She listens closely and knows when to slow things down rather than rush to fix or solve, while still bringing in practical tools when they’re helpful. She has a particular interest in the ways childhood, relationships, culture and identity shape how we move through the world.
SPECIALTIES BIPOC & Cross-Cultural Experiences · Educators & Caregivers · Attachment · Burnout · Neurodivergence · Spirituality · Perfectionism · Life Transitions · Body Image
APPROACHES Somatic · Mindfulness · Attachment-Focused · Narrative · IFS · DBT · Emotion-Focused · AEDP · Neurodivergent-Affirming
Cassidy Causey (Virtual)
RCC, Relationship/Couples Counsellor, EMDR Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Yoga Facilitator (She/Her)
Collaborative · Authentic & Human · Humour · Validating · Challenges Clients · Directive, Structured & Guides Sessions · Skills & Tools · Mind-Body · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
CASSIDY’S BIO & BOOKING →
Cassidy works with clients at all stages, but particularly loves working with people who feel like therapy hasn’t “worked” for them yet. She brings a direct, grounded approach while paying close attention to the body and nervous system and enjoys helping people make sense of the survival patterns we develop to navigate difficult experiences and learn how to move forward. She also offers couples and relationship counselling for partners navigating neurodivergence in their relationships. Cassidy is a firm believer that there should also be room for laughter and joy alongside the harder parts of therapy.
RCC, Relationship/Couples Counsellor, EMDR Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Yoga Facilitator (She/Her)
SPECIALTIES Family Patterns · Complex PTSD & Childhood Trauma · BPD · Neurodivergence · Dissociation · Anxiety · Religious Trauma · Domestic Violence · Relationship Counselling · Spiritual Exploration
APPROACHES TIST · Polyvagal-Informed · Somatic · IFS · DBT · EMDR · Satir · Mindfulness · Feminist-Informed · Anti-Oppressive · Trauma-Informed · Neurodivergent-Affirming · Spirituality
Hannah Adam (Virtual)
RCC, RP(Q), Art Therapist (She/Her)
Validating · Warm · Collaborative · Authentic & Human · Humour · Challenges Clients · Direct & Guides Sessions · Skills & Tools · Logic & Mindset · Mind-Body · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
HANNAH’S BIO & BOOKING →
Hannah brings a direct, down-to-earth approach to counselling, moving between client-led and more directive work depending on what feels useful. As an art therapist working online in BC and Ontario, she brings creativity into the room as another way to explore and process experiences, emotions and patterns that can be difficult to put into words. She offers therapy-themed puns and enjoys supports clients in developing more self-compassion, strongly believing that self-compassion is a more powerful motivator than shame.
SPECIALTIES Seniors · Grief & Loss · Addictions & Substance Use · PTSD & Complex PTSD · Childhood & Sexual Abuse · First Responder & Veteran · ADHD · Spirituality · Anxiety · Depression · Self-Worth
APPROACHES Art Therapy · IFS · Trauma-Informed · CBT · Mindfulness · DBT · Social Justice · Sex Positive · Neurodivergent-Affirming · Client-Centred
Tori Keller (Virtual)
RCC (She/Her)
Validating & Collaborative · Gentle & Warm · Authentic & Human · Can Be Directive & Guide Sessions · Growth & Action-Oriented · Listens Without Fixing · Mind-Body · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
TORI’S BIO & BOOKING →
Tori brings a warm, curious and steady presence to counselling. With a background in teaching and experience with many career and life transitions, she understands how disorienting it can be when the life you're living no longer quite fits. Tori draws on attachment, parts work, and the brain-body connection to help clients understand why they think, feel and respond the way they do. She brings practical tools into the room and works collaboratively, but can be directive when helpful, supporting clients to try new ways of being and move toward what matters to them.
SPECIALTIES Burnout & Stress Management · Attachment & Relationships · Social Anxiety · ADHD & Autism · Communication Skills · Health & Wellness · Identity · Life Transitions · Parent Support · Teachers · Religious & Spiritual Exploration · Motivation · Adolescents
APPROACHES Mindfulness · Self-Compassion · Attachment-Based · Strengths-Based · Trauma-Informed · Spiritual · IFS · Systemic · AEDP · Neurodiversity-Affirming
Donna Hutchinson (Virtual)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner, Individual & Relationship Counsellor (She/Her)
Growth & Action-Oriented · Collaborative · Directive & Can Guide Sessions · Challenges Clients · Mindset-Focused · Insight & Patterns · Mind-Body Focus · Skills & Tools · Emotional Focus
DONNA’S BIO & BOOKING →
Donna brings a directive, action-oriented approach to counselling, with a particular focus on mindset and making meaningful changes in your life. With a background as a personal trainer, yoga instructor and health and wellness educator, she brings an understanding of the connection between mental and physical health into her work. She enjoys working with people who are ready to step outside their comfort zone and take an active role in their counselling.
SPECIALTIES Life Transitions · Attachment & Relationships · Anxiety & Panic · Trauma · Body Image · Health & Wellness · Physical Fitness · Self-Esteem · Gender Identity & Sexuality · Grief
APPROACHES EMDR · Attachment-Focused · IFS · CBT · EFT for Couples · Yoga-Based Techniques · Mindfulness · Imago
Utku Ucay (Virtual)
RCC, Relationship/Couples Counsellor, EMDR Practitioner (He/Him)
Warm & Validating · Collaborative · Authentic & Human · Humour · Mind-Body Focus · Patterns & Insight · Emotional Focus
UTKU’S BIO & BOOKING →
Utku brings a warm, curious and active approach to counselling. He enjoys working with those who already have a sense of what they're struggling with but want a deeper understanding of where those patterns came from. His work is shaped by psychodynamic work and Buddhism and brings together the mind, body and deeper patterns shaped by our early relationships, while making room for culture, identity, belonging and the relationships we have now. Utku offers reflections & guidance when useful, while keeping therapy collaborative and human, and weaves humour into the process
SPECIALTIES Couples & Relationships · Grief · Life & Career Transitions · Neurodivergence · 2SLGBTQIA+ · Substance Use & Addictive Behaviours · Sexual Assault & Abuse · Trauma · BIPOC · Immigration & Refugee Experiences · Professional Athletes
APPROACHES Psychodynamic · IFS · DBT · Somatic · EMDR · Person-Centred · Mindfulness · ACT · EFT for Couples · Feminist · Anti-Oppressive · Culturally Sensitive · Trauma-Informed · Spirituality · Neurodivergent-Affirming
Andrea Slamaj
Clinic Manager
RCC, OEI & EMDR Practitioner (She/Her)
Validating & Collaborative · Patient · Authentic & Human · Humour · Can Challenging Clients · Can Guide Sessions & Be Directive When Helpful · Mind-Body · Insight & Patterns · Emotional Focus
ANDREA’S BIO & BOOKING →
Andrea tends to work with those who are thoughtful, emotionally perceptive and used to holding everything together, while not always tending to themselves. She also enjoys supporting those have spent their lives feeling like an outsider or the “black sheep”, as well as those navigating the effects of controlling relationships. Andrea gently guides the broader direction of therapy in a collaborative and compassionate way that is process-oriented, allowing spaciousness for sessions to unfold organically towards greater self-trust, agency and freedom to live in a way that feels right.
SPECIALTIES Stress & Burnout ·. Anxiety · People-Pleasing & Perfectionism · Boundaries · Self-Worth & Trust · Identity · PTSD & Complex & Childhood Trauma ·. Abusive Relationships · Relationships & Attachment · Chronic Illness & Medical Trauma · Body Image · Religious Trauma · Grief · Life Transitions
APPROACHES Relational & Attachment-Focused · Trauma & Violence-Informed · Feminist · AEDP · Narrative · Parts Work · Sex Positive · EMDR · OEI · Neurodivergent-Affirming
Madison (Intern)
Intern Counsellor, She/Her
MADISON’S BIO & BOOKING →
Madison is an intern counsellor completing a Master of Counselling at City University; her approach is direct and collaborative, with an interest in helping clients slow down, notice connections between thoughts and physical sensations, and make space for the complexity of their experiences.
APPROACHES: Person-Centred · Existential · AEDP · Attachment-Based · Parts-Oriented
Amanda Lertzman (Waitlist)
RCC (She/Her)
Collaborative · Humour · Authentic & Human · Gentle, Warm & Validating · Can Listen Without Fixing · Challenges Clients · Insight & Patterns · Mind-Body Focus · Emotional Focus
AMANDA’S BIO & BOOKING LINK →
Amanda brings a warm, grounded presence to her work, with room for both depth and humour. She often works with those who feel stuck, disconnected, or caught in patterns they can’t quite seem to shift, and who want to slow down enough to get curious about what’s really going on. Amanda pays attention to the emotional and physical experience of being human, as well as the beliefs and relationship patterns that shape it. Her hope is to help people feel more at home in themselves, with more confidence, choice and ease in their lives.
SPECIALTIES Stress & Burnout · Relationship Challenges & Attachment Healing · Spirituality & Meaning · CPTSD & Childhood Trauma · Chronic Illness & Pain · Self-Criticism & Self-Worth · Emotional Awareness & Expression · Life Transitions
APPROACHES Relational · Neurodiversity-Affirming Lens · Emotion Focused · Mindfulness · Somatic Therapy (Bringing the Body Into Practice Program) · Systemic · Sex Positive · Attachment-Focused · Spiritual · Trauma-Informed
Andrea Jones (Waitlist)
RCC, Relationship/Couples Counsellor, EMDR Practitioner (She/Her)
Collaborative · Authentic & Human · Warm & Validating · Strengths-Focused · Curious · Insight & Patterns · Can Guide Sessions When Helpful · Emotional Focus
ANDREA’S BIO & BOOKING →
Andrea believes we’re all constantly in the process of becoming. She enjoys working with those who feel lonely or disconnected, even when they’re surrounded by others, or who find it hard to be vulnerable and ask for what they need. Andrea helps clients understand themselves in relationship to both themselves and others, while exploring who they want to become. She brings curiosity, creativity and a strengths-based perspective to the work, with the belief that counselling can be about more than feeling better: it can also be about finding more connection, authenticity and joy.
SPECIALTIES Attachment Patterns · Relationships & Communication · Self-Compassion & Self-Esteem · Complex Trauma & PTSD · Life Transitions & Stress · Grief & Loss · Family & Intergenerational Patterns · ADHD & Relationships · Perimenopause
APPROACHES Attachment Focused · Strengths Based · Trauma-Informed · Neurodivergent-Affirming · IFS · EMDR · Gottman Therapy & Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples
Claire Kimbley (Waitlist)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner (They/She)
Claire works with trauma, self-worth, body image, grief, anxiety, relationships and life transitions, as well as gender and sexual identity exploration; they identify as queer themselves, and particularly support LGBTQ2IA+ and Indigenous clients, including people navigating intergenerational trauma. Claire also offers gender affirming hormone readiness assessments.
Approaches: EMDR · Attachment-Focused · ACT · Mindfulness · Compassion-Focused · Systemic Therapies
Yuan Zhou (Waitlist)
RCC (She/Her)
Yuan offers counselling in English and Mandarin. Grief and loss, complex and developmental trauma, and perinatal concerns are central to her work, alongside relationships, anxiety, depression, identity and neurodivergence, including family-of-origin experiences, interracial relationships and parenting, and people of Asian Canadian heritage. She specifically enjoys working with first generation immigrants, as well as clients with other immigration or refugee experiences. Yuan亦可提供普通话的心理咨询， 欢迎线上及线下来访者，包括长者、成人、青少年，以及夫妻或家庭。如有兴趣，请先预约15分钟的免费咨询
Approaches: · Mindfulness · Attachment-Focused · IFS · Somatic (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy) · Emotion-Focused (EFIT) · CBT · ACT · DBT
Saffron W. Rose (Full)
RCC, EMDR & EMDR 2.0 Practitioner (She/Her)
Saffron works with self-worth, perfectionism, identity, body image, trauma and PTSD, life transitions and neurodivergence, with particular experience with complex trauma, university students, and clients navigating relational and attachment challenges. Saffron also has lived experience and enjoys supporting front line workers.
Approaches: · Attachment-Focused · Trauma-Informed · EMDR 2.0 · Parts Work · Brainspotting · AEDP · Mindfulness · CBT · Control Mastery Theory · Strengths-Based