Amina Virgolici (she/her) - Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
Languages: Romanian and English
If you are interested in connecting with Amina, please email [email protected]
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Languages: Romanian and English
If you are interested in connecting with Amina, please email [email protected]
or
Availability
Tuesdays 2:15 pm - 9:00 pm (In person at Mount Pleasant)
Wednesdays 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thursdays 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (Virtual)
About
No person or experience exists in a vacuum. Within a confidential space, where the client can feel safe, challenged and have autonomy to explore whatever is on their mind; Amina recognizes and employs a framework conscious of intersectionality. As such, she aims to facilitate a space for counselling in which there is an emphasis on collaboration and personal growth. She specializes in working alongside all genders, sexualities, desires and relationship structures.
Amina (she/her) is a cisgender, queer, Romanian immigrant who humbly and gratefully acknowledges that she is an uninvited settler on the unceded, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples.
Growing up as an immigrant, Amina’s therapy journey started when trying to understand her own identity and sense of self. Both life and work experiences have provided Amina with a nuance of awareness, especially navigating systems of power and social oppressions. Main approaches are rooted through an anti-oppressive, pleasure positive and trauma informed lens.
She aims to foster a compassionate and welcoming space where clients can explore and freely discuss their anxieties, traumas, kink/fetishes, self-esteem, and barriers within existing relationships. She provides counselling to all individuals and has ample experience working within the 2SLGBTQIA+, poly, sex work and neurodivergent communities. Her therapeutic areas of interests are solution focused therapy, narrative therapy, intersectional feminism, and sex positive interventions within a holistic trauma informed framework.
When not working as a counsellor, Amina can be found practicing shibari, climbing rocks and cuddling animals.
Approaches
Selected Trainings
Individual Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $140
Generous: $145+
75 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $185
Generous: $190+
Relationship Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Open to Discussion
Standard $180
Generous $185+
75 min
Sliding scale: Open to Discussion
Standard: $230
Generous: $235+
Tuesdays 2:15 pm - 9:00 pm (In person at Mount Pleasant)
Wednesdays 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thursdays 10:00 am - 6:00 pm (Virtual)
About
No person or experience exists in a vacuum. Within a confidential space, where the client can feel safe, challenged and have autonomy to explore whatever is on their mind; Amina recognizes and employs a framework conscious of intersectionality. As such, she aims to facilitate a space for counselling in which there is an emphasis on collaboration and personal growth. She specializes in working alongside all genders, sexualities, desires and relationship structures.
Amina (she/her) is a cisgender, queer, Romanian immigrant who humbly and gratefully acknowledges that she is an uninvited settler on the unceded, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples.
Growing up as an immigrant, Amina’s therapy journey started when trying to understand her own identity and sense of self. Both life and work experiences have provided Amina with a nuance of awareness, especially navigating systems of power and social oppressions. Main approaches are rooted through an anti-oppressive, pleasure positive and trauma informed lens.
She aims to foster a compassionate and welcoming space where clients can explore and freely discuss their anxieties, traumas, kink/fetishes, self-esteem, and barriers within existing relationships. She provides counselling to all individuals and has ample experience working within the 2SLGBTQIA+, poly, sex work and neurodivergent communities. Her therapeutic areas of interests are solution focused therapy, narrative therapy, intersectional feminism, and sex positive interventions within a holistic trauma informed framework.
When not working as a counsellor, Amina can be found practicing shibari, climbing rocks and cuddling animals.
Approaches
- Attachment
- Cognitive Behavioral
- Emotion-focused
- Internal Family Systems & IFIO
- Gottman
- Kink Affirming & Pleasure Positive
- Narrative
- Somatic
- Trauma- Informed
Selected Trainings
- Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 Certificate with Susan Johnson, EdD via PESI
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 and Level 2 via Gottman Institute
- Mindful CBT Certification with Seth Gillihan, PhD via PESI
- Treating Affairs and Trauma via Gottman Institute
- Putting Polyvagal Theory into Practice with Deb Dana
- Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) via IFS Institue (in progress)
Individual Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $140
Generous: $145+
75 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $185
Generous: $190+
Relationship Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Open to Discussion
Standard $180
Generous $185+
75 min
Sliding scale: Open to Discussion
Standard: $230
Generous: $235+