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
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
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
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
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
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
Mercedes Miller (Full)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner, Trauma Informed Yoga Facilitator (She/They)
Mercedes works with trauma and PTSD, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, substance use and addiction and psychedelic integration. They also love supporting clients with sexual and gender identity exploration, spirituality, and relational challenges and identifies as queer herself. Mercedes also offers bi-weekly mindful yoga classes at New Tides
Approaches: · EMDR · Internal Family Systems (IFS) · Trauma-Informed · Mindfulness and Yoga Based Techniques · ACT · Anti-Oppressive Therapies · Compassion Based
Morgan McKusick (Full)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Yoga Facilitator, Clinical Director (She/Her)
Morgan is Founder and Clinical Director of New Tides. Her practice focuses on trauma and attachment, anxiety, self-worth, emotion regulation, identity, emotional awareness, and relational challenges, with particular interest in supporting those who want to develop a sense of embodiment and awareness, other counsellors, counsellors-in-training and highly self-sufficient people. Morgan also offers bi-weekly candlelight yin yoga at New Tides.
Approaches: EMDR · Somatic (Sensorimotor Psychotherapy) · Trauma Informed Stabilization (Parts Work) · Attachment-Focused · AEDP · Solution Focused · Emotion Focused · Mindfulness and Yoga Based Techniques
Sophie Bakerscott (Full)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner (She/Her)
Helpers and caregivers experiencing burnout and adults who appear high-functioning but feel overwhelmed make up much of Sophie's practice, with particular attention to women and gender-expansive clients exploring agency, voice and how they want to show up in the world. Sophie also enjoys supporting clients who are new to therapy and seeking a gentle start, and those who are looking to grow in areas of boundary setting & relational healing.
Approaches: Somatic · Narrative · CBT · EMDR · Parts Work · Mindfulness · Nervous System Education · Strengths-Based · Trauma-Informed · Attachment & Relational