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
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
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
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
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
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