Sam Kaplan (they/them)- Registered Clinical Counsellor/Clinical Consultation
With the exceptions of RHAP clients, clinical supervision and hormone readiness assessments, I am currently full with a closed waitlist. Contact samkaplan@expressivewellness.ca to connect.
For the last fourteen years, I have been working as a counsellor with children, youth, adults, and the important people in their lives. I especially enjoy working alongside neurodivergent children and young adults (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder), gender creative kids, and people who have coping strategies they would like to explore shifting. I am also able to offer support to parents or caregivers who wish to find effective ways to support the children, youth, and young adults in their lives.
After completing my Master’s degree, I engaged in further training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Art Therapy, EFFT (Emotion Focused Family Therapy), Somatic-Attachment, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Early Psychosis Intervention. In working with clients, I draw on these approaches to support people in developing skills and strategies that are practical and creative. I am really drawn to somatic and trauma centred engagement approaches to create space for the body to heal.
I see people as experts in their own lives and it is really important to me to work collaboratively alongside people.
In my personal life, I love the woods, the ocean, making art, gardening, and animals. I am non-binary (they/them), neurodivergent, and of European and Arab Jewish background. I strive towards anti-oppressive, social justice oriented practices, and also recognize that this is ongoing work of listening and learning and unlearning.
I am located on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
With the exceptions of RHAP clients, clinical supervision and hormone readiness assessments, I am currently full with a closed waitlist. Contact samkaplan@expressivewellness.ca to connect.
For the last fourteen years, I have been working as a counsellor with children, youth, adults, and the important people in their lives. I especially enjoy working alongside neurodivergent children and young adults (such as Autism Spectrum Disorder and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder), gender creative kids, and people who have coping strategies they would like to explore shifting. I am also able to offer support to parents or caregivers who wish to find effective ways to support the children, youth, and young adults in their lives.
After completing my Master’s degree, I engaged in further training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Art Therapy, EFFT (Emotion Focused Family Therapy), Somatic-Attachment, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Early Psychosis Intervention. In working with clients, I draw on these approaches to support people in developing skills and strategies that are practical and creative. I am really drawn to somatic and trauma centred engagement approaches to create space for the body to heal.
I see people as experts in their own lives and it is really important to me to work collaboratively alongside people.
In my personal life, I love the woods, the ocean, making art, gardening, and animals. I am non-binary (they/them), neurodivergent, and of European and Arab Jewish background. I strive towards anti-oppressive, social justice oriented practices, and also recognize that this is ongoing work of listening and learning and unlearning.
I am located on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.