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 JEssie (本潔) Chen

Jessie Bian-Jie (本潔) is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Jessie is dedicated to creating a safe, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed space with clients. Jessie is honoured to walk alongside her clients in their healing journey.
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​Online
​Individual Counselling
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Angel Sukkau

Angel is a cisgender queer, Egyptian/German-Canadian settler living in British Columbia. She often works through a harm reduction, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed lens. She is passionate about incorporating nature, music, art, and writing into therapy.
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​In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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Elise Barber

Elise seeks to create a trusting space that supports your insights, growth and wellbeing. You may be sitting with grief, anxiety, hurt or uncertainty. Elise supports you to uncover your capacity to navigate stressors, communicate effectively, and establish boundaries to care compassionately for yourself and others.
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In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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ALICE KIM

Alice is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC). She works from a trauma and attachment informed and justice centred framework. Alice is passionate about supporting around relational challenges and trauma, and she approaches her work with warmth, sensitivity, compassion, transparency, and shared vulnerability.
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Relationship and Individual Counselling
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LJUDMILA PETROVIC

Ljudmila Petrovic is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who does individual and relationship counselling around trauma, sexuality, and identity. Her approach is collaborative, anti-oppressive, playful, trauma-informed, and strengths based.

​In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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Mich Norkowski

Mich offers individual, family and relationship counselling to all folks, with experience in the 2SLGBTQIA+, poly, sex work, and neurodivergent communities. Mich has also worked in veterinary medicine for 20 years, and has experience in assisting those in the animal care fields and pet grief

​In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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Laura Guenzel

Laura is a pre-licensed associate counsellor. Their counselling style is warm and nonjudgmental, creating space for you to share your story at your own pace. Laura’s focus is on providing affirming counselling for fellow ace, aro, queer, non-binary, disabled, neurodivergent, and fat people.
Online
Individual Counselling
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Kaitlin Wu

Kaitlin holds a person-centered, social justice framework and focuses on supporting marginalized communities and neurodivergent folks. She approaches each session with compassion and curiosity.

​Online
Individual Counselling
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Kaitlyn Kraatz

​Kaitlyn is a queer and genderqueer Counsellor. They see counselling as a way for people to become empowered in their own healing. Kaitlyn’s approach has been described as warm, open, and creative. Their practice is trauma-informed, which means you can expect a space that prioritizes your needs.
Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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Beth D'Aoust

Beth centres offering a collaborative, client-centred, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approach. Her practice is heavily informed by systems thinking, intersectional feminism, harm reduction, non-binary values, queer theory, attachment theory, and somatics.
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In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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Stephany Blandino

Stephany sees counselling as an opportunity to walk beside folx, co-creating safety and dignity as they navigate their healing journeys and call in their own wisdom. She believes her role is one of facilitating and collaborating, and that each client brings their own expertise, gifts, and the seeds for resilience.
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​Outreach and Online
Individual Counselling
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​Pin-Han hsu

Pin-Han's approach to therapy is person-centred, strengths-based, and trauma-informed. Pin-Han provides anti-oppressive and nonjudgmental care to marginalized individuals who are in the LGBTQ2S+ communities, immigrants, who use substances, and survivors of domestic violence.
Online
Individual Counselling
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nicole kauppi

Nicole is a queer, non-binary Autistic therapist and parent of ND children. They offer an ongoing collaborative process guided by a social justice framework and trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirmative principles. They primarily work with youth, adults, and parents from neurodivergent, 2SLGBTQIA+, and/or ENM/polyam communities.
Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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BRÉA KANE

Waitlist for New Clients
Bréa is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Certified Perinatal Mental Health Professional. She works alongside folks whose sense of dignity has been damaged, devalued, and misunderstood. You can expect Bréa to offer a warm, empathic, and non-judgmental space to co-create paths for mind-body healing.
In-Person and Online
Individual Counselling
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Lisley Siqueira

Waitlist for New Clients
Lisley is a queer, Black- Brazilian, and fat. As a birth worker and counsellor, Lisley is passionate about providing care to people who are experiencing trauma, grief, infertility, and major life transitions.
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​In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling

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​​Maryanne Wong

Waitlist for New Clients
​Maryanne is a queer, bicultural Associate Counsellor and Registered Social Worker with both lived and professional experience. Their perspective is informed by an intersectional social justice lens. She approaches her counselling work with a collaborative, inquisitive spirit and trauma-aware, harm-reduction approach.

In-Person and Online
Individual Counselling
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Lina fang

Waitlist for New Clients
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Lina works with marginalized individuals including, but not limited to, BIPOC, neurodivergent, 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, immigrants, and poly communities. Her practice is trauma-informed and you can expect a therapeutic space that prioritizes authenticity and empowerment.
​Online
Individual Counselling
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Sandra Suasnabar

​Sandra is passionate and committed to offering a safe, transparent and nourishing holding space for Clinical Supervisees and Consultees. Sandra specializes in supporting survivors of trauma (intergenerational, gender-based and sexualized), folks navigating identities and life transitions, grief and loss, and historical systemic oppression.
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Sam Kaplan

Sam works alongside folks navigating identity, traumas and inter-relationships.  Currently with space for Hormone Readiness assessments and clinical consultation.  
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