Amina Virgolici (she/her) - Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)
Languages: Romanian and English
If you would like to be connected with Amina, please email her at [email protected]
Languages: Romanian and English
If you would like to be connected with Amina, please email her at [email protected]
Availability
Mondays 8:00 am - 11:00 am (Virtual)
Tuesdays 2:30 pm - 9:00 pm (In person at Mount Pleasant)
Wednesdays 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Virtual)
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
15-min Phone Consultation: No Cost
Individual Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $150
Generous: $155+
75 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $225
Generous: $230+
Relationship and Family Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Full/Closed
Standard $190
Generous $195+
75 min
Sliding scale: Full/Closed
Standard: $260
Generous: $265+
Mondays 8:00 am - 11:00 am (Virtual)
Tuesdays 2:30 pm - 9:00 pm (In person at Mount Pleasant)
Wednesdays 11:00 am - 7:00 pm (Virtual)
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
- Sensate Focus
- Trauma- Informed
Selected Trainings
- #RaceAnd Gendre Binary, Race Forward, The Centre for Radical Justice Innovation
- Boundaries: The True Power in BDSM with Nicki Line, Pineapple Support PESI
- Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 Certificate with Susan Johnson, EdD via
- 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
- San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training - San'yas Anti-Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
- Open, Poly, Consensual, Swinging, Monogamish and More with Modern SexTherapy Institute
- Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) via IFS Institue
15-min Phone Consultation: No Cost
Individual Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $150
Generous: $155+
75 min
Sliding scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $225
Generous: $230+
Relationship and Family Counselling
50 min
Sliding scale: Full/Closed
Standard $190
Generous $195+
75 min
Sliding scale: Full/Closed
Standard: $260
Generous: $265+