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
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
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
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
Camille Labonté Raymond (Full)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner (She/Her)
Camille is an EMDR Practitioner who works with self-worth, self-criticism, and the experience of feeling disconnected from your own emotions, drawing from mind and body-based approaches. She helps clients build awareness of their needs and boundaries, and holds space for showing up as you are, whether you're navigating difficult emotions or working to rebuild a sense of safety and connection with yourself and others.
Approaches: EMDR · Trauma-Informed · AEDP · Emotion Focused · Mindfulness · Feminist Therapy · Attachment Focused
CAMILLE’S BIO & BOOKING →
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
Courtney Orser (Full)
RCC, EMDR Practitioner, Clinical Coordinator (She/Her)
Courtney is Clinical Coordinator of New Tides and works with trauma and complex PTSD, neurodivergence, anxiety, depression, self-worth, attachment and relationships; she identifies as queer and neurodivergent herself, and also supports clients exploring gender and sexuality, queer and kink relationships, chronic pain and life transitions. She also enjoys working with clients who are new to counselling, and men who are excited about exploring their own personal growth
Approaches: · EMDR · Attachment-Focused · Trauma-Informed · Emotion-Focused · IFS & Parts Work · Narrative · Adlerian · Anti-Oppressive & Feminist
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