Amina Virgolici, RCC

Associate Counsellor
(she/her/hers)

In-Person and Virtual Sessions

Amina is currently accepting new clients!

If you are interested in connecting with Amina, please contact amina@collective-healing.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.

No person or experience exists in a vacuum. Within a confidential space, where the client can feel safe, challenged and have autonomy to explore whatever is on their mind; Amina recognizes and employs a framework conscious of intersectionality. As such, she aims to facilitate a space for counselling in which there is an emphasis on collaboration and personal growth. She specializes in working alongside all genders, sexualities, desires and relationship structures.

Amina (she/her) is a cisgender, queer, Romanian immigrant who humbly and gratefully acknowledges that she is an uninvited settler on the unceded, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples.

Growing up as an immigrant, Amina’s therapy journey started when trying to understand her own identity and sense of self. Both life and work experiences have provided Amina with a nuance of awareness, especially navigating systems of power and social oppressions. Main approaches are rooted through an anti-oppressive, pleasure positive and trauma informed lens.

She aims to foster a compassionate and welcoming space where clients can explore and freely discuss their anxieties, traumas, kink/fetishes, self-esteem, and barriers within existing relationships. She provides counselling to all individuals and has ample experience working within the 2SLGBTQIA+, poly, sex work and neurodivergent communities. Her therapeutic areas of interests are solution focused therapy, narrative therapy, intersectional feminism, and sex positive interventions within a holistic trauma informed framework.

When not working as a counsellor, Amina can be found practicing shibari, climbing rocks and cuddling animals.

Amina’s Rates

15 min Phone Consultation
No Cost

Individual Counselling

50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $150
Generous: $155+

75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $210
Generous: $215+

Relationship Counselling

50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $190
Generous: $195+

75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $245
Generous: $250+

Amina’s Availability

Location: Art Therapy Studio, Virtual

Days and Hours:

Tuesday 2:30pm - 9:00pm (Art Therapy Studio & Virtual)
Wednesday 11:00am - 7:00pm (Virtual)
Thursday 10:00am - 6:00pm (Virtual)

Approaches in Therapy

Attachment
Cognitive Behavioural
Emotion-focused
Internal Family Systems & IFIO
Gottman
Kink Affirming & Pleasure Positive
Narrative
Somatic
Sensate Focus
Trauma- Informed

Licensures & Degrees

Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association

Selected Professional Training

RaceAnd Gendre Binary, Race Forward, The Centre for Radical Justice Innovation
Boundaries: The True Power in BDSM with Nicki Line, Pineapple Support PESI
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) Level 1 Certificate with Susan Johnson, EdD via
Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 and Level 2 via Gottman Institute
Mindful CBT Certification with Seth Gillihan, PhD via PESI
Treating Affairs and Trauma via Gottman Institute
Putting Polyvagal Theory into Practice with Deb Dana
San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training - San'yas Anti-Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) via IFS Institue (in progress)