Ivan Leonce (he/him/his)
Languages: English
Ivan is in practicum mid-May until late August 2023.
Please email samkaplan@expressivewellness.ca if you would like to be connected with Ivan
Languages: English
Ivan is in practicum mid-May until late August 2023.
Please email samkaplan@expressivewellness.ca if you would like to be connected with Ivan
Availability
Tuesdays 10AM - 3PM (virtual)
Wednesdays 1PM - 7PM (In Person Mt. Pleasant or virtual)
Thursdays 10AM - 3PM (virtual)
Ivan is a student counsellor in his final months of social work training at the University of Victoria where he is completing a BSW grounded in Indigenous approaches to helping & healing.
Every part of you is welcome in your counselling conversations with Ivan - the tender, the tough, and all the tricky parts in between. The stories you have told a thousand different ways and the ones just waiting for a soft place to name out loud for the very first time. The part of you that is pretty sure this might be a good next step, and the part that might still be a little nervous anyway. Ivan works with those in his care to help make sense of it all, together.
Ivan’s healing work is shaped by his lived & cultural experiences as a Black, queer immigrant of mixed Afro-Caribbean, Tamil & Kalinago ancestry as well as his professional training in trauma-informed, decolonial approaches. His counselling style integrates humanistic, relationship-focused, and experiential therapies including aspects of narrative, somatic, attachment & parts work.
As a new counsellor, Ivan is currently most experienced working with queer, trans, BIPOC, immigrant, refugee, and HIV positive young adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship issues, burnout, intergenerational & systemic trauma, life transitions and identity exploration.
Selected Professional Training
Tuesdays 10AM - 3PM (virtual)
Wednesdays 1PM - 7PM (In Person Mt. Pleasant or virtual)
Thursdays 10AM - 3PM (virtual)
Ivan is a student counsellor in his final months of social work training at the University of Victoria where he is completing a BSW grounded in Indigenous approaches to helping & healing.
Every part of you is welcome in your counselling conversations with Ivan - the tender, the tough, and all the tricky parts in between. The stories you have told a thousand different ways and the ones just waiting for a soft place to name out loud for the very first time. The part of you that is pretty sure this might be a good next step, and the part that might still be a little nervous anyway. Ivan works with those in his care to help make sense of it all, together.
Ivan’s healing work is shaped by his lived & cultural experiences as a Black, queer immigrant of mixed Afro-Caribbean, Tamil & Kalinago ancestry as well as his professional training in trauma-informed, decolonial approaches. His counselling style integrates humanistic, relationship-focused, and experiential therapies including aspects of narrative, somatic, attachment & parts work.
As a new counsellor, Ivan is currently most experienced working with queer, trans, BIPOC, immigrant, refugee, and HIV positive young adults navigating anxiety, depression, relationship issues, burnout, intergenerational & systemic trauma, life transitions and identity exploration.
Selected Professional Training
- Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate, with Kai Cheng Thom & Scott Lyons
- Racial & Generational Trauma: Somatic Approaches for Black, Indigenous & People Colour, with Chinwé Williams
- Trauma Informed Responses to Racial Injustice: Supporting Immigrant Communities, with Charissa Pizarro
- Internal Family Systems Immersion, with Frank Anderson & Richard Schwartz
- Healing Cultural Trauma with Internal Family Systems, with Deran Young