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Samantha cheng

Samantha is a Registered Clinical Counsellor offering individual counselling and clinical supervision. She specializes in supporting folks navigating life transitions, experiencing grief and loss, or exploring questions of meaning and identity.

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Online
Individual Counselling
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Lisley Siqueira

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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Online
Relationship, Family and Individual Counselling
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Allahna Somji

Allahna is a pre-licensed associate counsellor. Her therapeutic approach is centered around collaboration, meeting all clients with empathy and non-judgement. She hopes to create a safe and accepting space for her clients, allowing for empowerment, encouragement, and connection.

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​In-Person and Online
Individual Counselling- Children to young adults
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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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Jenn Napier

Jenn is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She welcomes your full humanity, and shows up with warmth, curiosity, and levity. Jenn's approach is collaborative, adaptive, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed. Her practice draws upon narrative, systems & parts work, and somatic (body-based) theories grounded in queer celebration, fat liberation, and radical acceptance.
​In-Person and Online
Individual Counselling
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Emily Franklin

Emily is a biracial, cisgender Pre-Licensed Associate Counsellor. She is passionate about supporting clients in discovering their personal strength and autonomy in their lived experiences. Clients can expect sessions to be collaborative, safe, and welcoming.


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​In-Person and Online
Individual Counselling
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Laura Guenzel

Laura is a Canadian Certified 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.

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Online
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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​In-Person, Outreach and 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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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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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.
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Relationship, Family and 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.

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​Online
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.

In-Person and Online
Relationship and Family Counselling
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Mich Norkowski

Mich is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. They offer relationship, family and individual counselling to all folks, with experience working with/in the 2SLGBTQIA+, poly, sex work, neurodivergent and veterinary communities.

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​In-Person and Online
Relationship, Family 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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Lina fang

Waitlist for New Clients
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Lina is a queer, autistic and bi-cultural Canadian Certified Counsellor. She works with marginalized clients including 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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Elise Barber

Waitlist for New Clients
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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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​​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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nicole kauppi

Waitlist for New Clients
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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.
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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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CLINICAL SUPERVISORS/Consultants

The Folks Who Collaborate Alongside Associates and Practicum Students

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Jessica Rathwell

Jess is a Registered Clinical Counsellor offering individual counselling sessions and clinical supervision. Jess brings a wealth of clinical and lived experience to their work with young people and adults. Social justice and accessibility are key values in their practice. Trauma, neurodiversity, chronic illness, brain injury and sexuality are all areas in which Jess has additional skills and knowledge.
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​Online 
Clinical Supervision and 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.

​Online
Clinical Supervision and Individual Counselling​
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Sam Kaplan

Sam is a Registered Clinical Counsellor who works alongside folks navigating identity, traumas and relationships.  Currently with space for Hormone Readiness assessments and clinical consultation.  





​Online

Clinical Supervision and Individual Counselling
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Thoko Moyo​

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Tiffany Wu​

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