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
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
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