Nadine Nakagawa
Languages: English
If you would like to be connected with Nadine, please email [email protected]
or
Languages: English
If you would like to be connected with Nadine, please email [email protected]
or
Availability
Tuesdays 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm (Virtual)
Fridays 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm (In-person at Mount Pleasant & Virtual)
Sunday 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (Virtual)
About
Hello and welcome! I am a Certified Canadian Counsellor working from an intersectional, anti-oppressive, and harm reductive approach that considers collective and community healing. I live and work as a settler on the unceded and stolen territory of the hənq̓əminəm, speaking people.
I identify as a queer, non-disabled, Hāfu, cis-woman and I strive to bring art, creativity, and embodiment to my practice. In our sessions together, you can expect gentle affirmation and validation of your lived experiences with incorporation of the structural and systemic factors that impact and oppress us.
Outside of counselling, I am a creative writer, a nature and animal lover, a community organizer, and a fledgling painter. I live with two cats (allergy alert for in-person sessions), run a campaign school for underrepresented people, and am a City Councillor in New Westminster. I have a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on leadership and communication.
The approaches that are most aligned with me:
I would love to work with:
Selected Training
Nadine's Rates
50-min
Standard: $130
Sliding scale: $85
Generous: $135+
75-min
Standard: $180
Sliding scale: $120
Generous: $185+
Tuesdays 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm (Virtual)
Fridays 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm (In-person at Mount Pleasant & Virtual)
Sunday 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (Virtual)
About
Hello and welcome! I am a Certified Canadian Counsellor working from an intersectional, anti-oppressive, and harm reductive approach that considers collective and community healing. I live and work as a settler on the unceded and stolen territory of the hənq̓əminəm, speaking people.
I identify as a queer, non-disabled, Hāfu, cis-woman and I strive to bring art, creativity, and embodiment to my practice. In our sessions together, you can expect gentle affirmation and validation of your lived experiences with incorporation of the structural and systemic factors that impact and oppress us.
Outside of counselling, I am a creative writer, a nature and animal lover, a community organizer, and a fledgling painter. I live with two cats (allergy alert for in-person sessions), run a campaign school for underrepresented people, and am a City Councillor in New Westminster. I have a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on leadership and communication.
The approaches that are most aligned with me:
- Narrative therapy – exploring our stories and beliefs as external to our identities
- Parts work – working with different parts that may have conflicting feelings or positions
- Person-centred therapy – focusing on empathy and unconditional positive regard
- Somatics – focusing on connecting mind and body to understand how emotions may show up in our bodies
- Arts and creativity – exploring non-verbal ways of knowing and understanding through visual, embodied, or written arts
I would love to work with:
- People in leadership positions, whether in politics, labour, arts, or community work
- Those involved in making positive change in the world
- Queer and racialized folks navigating how to show up as themselves in an often-painful world
- People interested in incorporating nature-based therapy
Selected Training
- Culturally Affirming Boundary Setting - provided by Central Coast CAMFT
- Narrative Therapy Level 1 – provided by Strategic Interventions
- Trauma Informed Practice Training Level 1 – provided by the Trauma Informed Practice Institute
- Attachment Trauma Treatment Specialist Certificate: Clinical Skills to Repair Anxious, Disorganized and Avoidant Attachment Styles – provided through PESI
- EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma: Somatic Techniques to Decrease Defensiveness and Facilitate Trauma Processing – provided through PESI
- Foundations of Neuro-Affirming Practice: Experiential Training for Working with High-Masking Autism, Burnout, PDA and More – provided through PESI
- Polyvagal Theory: Pathways to Stillness – provided through PESI by Deb Dana
- Healing Betrayal Trauma & Grief - provided through PESI by John & Julie Gottman and David Kessler
Nadine's Rates
50-min
Standard: $130
Sliding scale: $85
Generous: $135+
75-min
Standard: $180
Sliding scale: $120
Generous: $185+