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
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
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
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
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