A Counselling Collective
That Actually Gets It

We are a counselling practice that supports the healing, growth, and liberation of people who are targeted and marginalized by systems of structural power.

We prioritize working with BIPoC folks, 2SLGBTQAI+ folks, and sex workers.

We work with people whose lives don't fit into boxes. Real support for real people.

 
Team members stand in a group in front of trees, while looking at the camera and smiling warmly.
 

Who We Are: Our clinicians bring real lived experience to this work. We're not detached observers—we know what it's like to be impacted by systemic barriers, and we do this work because healing matters for collective liberation.

What we offer:
Individual counselling, relationship therapy, sex therapy, supervision, and groups. In-person in ‘Vancouver’, and online in British Columbia.

Why We're Different: Many people come to therapy expecting to be fixed or told they're wrong. We're not that. We work with people whose lives, identities, and choices don't fit neatly into the boxes most counsellors know how to handle. Whether you're navigating racism, queerness, sex work, neurodivergence, or just feeling like an outsider in every room you enter—we get why that matters. We're not going to ask you to separate your trauma from the world that caused it or pretend your identity isn't central to your healing.

 
 
 

Counselling, Consulting, & Facilitation

We believe that understanding the context in which harm has occurred (familial, cultural, societal, etc.) is a necessary step towards true healing and transformation.

We offer our services in support of the idea that individual healing brings about healing on a collective scale and, in so doing, disrupts harmful systems of structural power.

 

 Services

 

Individual Counselling

 

Relationship Counselling

 

Consultation & Clinical Supervision

 

Group Offerings

 

Sex Therapy

 

Hormone Readiness Assessment

 

Facilitation

 
 
 

 Our Rates

Our counsellors offer their services at Sliding Scale, Standard and Generous rates.

Sliding Scale

Standard

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Generous

 
 

By offering a sliding scale fee structure, we are doing our part to acknowledge that financial barriers often prevent individuals from receiving the support they deserve. As we commit to providing services that acknowledge the structural power that causes us harm, using a sliding scale allows us to draw attention to financial barriers while encouraging accountability from clients who are currently in a secure financial situation.

 
 

Meet the Team

 
 

Sam Kaplan (Expressive Wellness) and Luisa Ospina provide practicum student counsellors with clinical supervision via our practicum program. This ensures clients receive ethical support as the student counsellors complete their education. Student counsellors are available to work with individuals, relationships, families, children and teens.

Our student counsellors offer lower-cost in-person and virtual services at sliding scale rates.