Jotika Chaudhary Samant

Jotika is a Queer, Disabled, chronically ill, cis, femme of Colour. She is an Expressive Arts Therapist and Registered Social Worker. She is passionate about the arts as profound and powerful tools to support re-connecting to our bodies.

BIPoC Identified, English, Associate Counsellor, Sliding Scale Available, RSW, Accepting New Clients, Art Therapy, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Expressive Arts Therapy, Queer IdentifiedLuisa OspinaMay 6, 2024Individual Counselling, Virtual, Phone

Olivander Day, RCC

Olivander (He/Him) is a Registered Clinical Counselor and Registered Social Worker. If you are curious about trauma-focused counseling, talk therapy, EMDR, Somatic therapy, and an attachment-based therapeutic approach, connect with Olivander. He is a white settler, queer, trans, and neurodivergent.

English, Associate Counsellor, RCC, EMDR, Queer Identified, Hormone Readiness Assessment, Neurodivergent, RSW, CVAP Provider, Accepting New ClientsLuisa OspinaMarch 20, 2024Individual Counselling, Virtual, In-Person, Relationship Counselling, Family Counselling

Ivan Leonce, RSW

Ivan is a Registered Social Worker keen to support folks through all the tough, tender & tricky parts of simply being alive and in this world. His counselling style invites an exploration of our unique stories, and relationships to the people, places & practices important to us as sources of wisdom on ways forward.

BIPoC Identified, English, Queer Identified, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Sliding Scale Available, Accepting New Clients, Associate Counsellor, RSW, Available in the EveningLuisa OspinaJanuary 3, 2024Individual Counselling, Virtual, In-Person

Surya Govender

Surya is an Art Therapist with a feminist, trauma informed perspective, focused on compassion, harm reduction and finding joy. Surya is a parent with a deep understanding of the ways our chosen/birth families shape us. She is biracial, queer, able bodied and cisgendered.

Queer Identified, English, BIPoC Identified, Art Therapy, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Sliding Scale Available, Accepting New Clients, Associate CounsellorLuisa OspinaDecember 21, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, In-Person, Relationship Counselling

Sawlat Tirtha, RSW

Sawlat is a first generation Bengali immigrant raised in Canada. She is a Registered Social Worker who works alongside folks navigating life transitions, anxiety, depression, relational struggles, sexuality, and trauma.

BIPoC Identified, English, Associate Counsellor, Sliding Scale Available, Accepting New Clients, RSW, Available on Weekends, Available in the Evening, FNHA ProviderLuisa OspinaDecember 21, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual

Luisa Ospina, RCC

Luisa is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Supervisor who works primarily with people who have experienced trauma, including sexualized violence, experiences of ongoing oppression, and family separation. You can expect sessions with her to be light-hearted, validating, critical of structural barriers, and educational.

Shana Soo

Shana (she/they) is a student counsellor who is passionate about providing a safe, validating, and collaborative space for clients. Their practice is anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and harm reducing, with a touch of playfulness.

English, BIPoC Identified, Sliding Scale Available, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Queer Identified, Available in the Evening, Neurodivergent, Associate Counsellor, Accepting New ClientsLuisa OspinaAugust 2, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, In-Person, Relationship Counselling

Sam Kaplan, RCC

Sam is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and RCC-Approved Clinical Supervisor (provisional), who works alongside folks navigating identity, traumas and relationships. Currently with space for Hormone Readiness assessments and clinical consultation.

Steph Blandino, RCC

Waitlist for New Clients. Stephany is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She sees counselling as an opportunity to walk beside folx, co-creating safety and dignity as they navigate their healing journeys and call in their own wisdom. She believes her role is one of facilitating and collaborating, and that each client brings their own expertise, gifts, and the seeds for resilience.

BIPoC Identified, Queer Identified, English, Available on Weekends, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Associate Counsellor, RCC, Available in the Evening, FNHA Provider, EMDR, CVAP Provider, Waitlist Available, SpanishLuisa OspinaApril 5, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, In-Person, Family Counselling

Emily Franklin, RCC

Emily is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She is passionate about supporting clients in discovering their personal strength and autonomy in their lived experiences. Clients can expect sessions to be collaborative, safe, and welcoming.

BIPoC Identified, English, Available in the Evening, Associate Counsellor, Accepting New Clients, RCCLuisa OspinaApril 5, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, Phone, In-Person

Alice Kim, RCC

Alice is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She works from a trauma and attachment informed and justice centred framework. Alice is passionate about supporting around relational challenges and trauma, and she approaches her work with warmth, sensitivity, compassion, transparency, and shared vulnerability.

BIPoC Identified, English, Associate Counsellor, RCC, Accepting New Clients, Conversational Korean, EMDRLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, Relationship Counselling

Angel Sukkau, RCC

Waitlist for New Clients. Angel is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. She is a cisgender queer, Egyptian/German-Canadian settler living in British Columbia. She often works through a harm reduction, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed lens. She is passionate about incorporating nature, music, art, and writing into therapy.

BIPoC Identified, Queer Identified, English, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Associate Counsellor, Available in the Evening, RCC, FNHA Provider, EMDR, Waitlist AvailableLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, Phone, In-Person, Relationship Counselling

Pin-Han Hsu, RCC

Pin-Han is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Pin-Han's approach to therapy is person-centred, strengths-based, and trauma-informed. Pin-Han provides anti-oppressive and nonjudgmental care to marginalized individuals who are in the 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, immigrants, who use substances, and survivors of violence.

BIPoC Identified, Queer Identified, Available on Weekends, English, Taiwanese, Mandarin, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Accepting New Clients, Associate Counsellor, RCC, FNHA Provider, CVAP ProviderLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Virtual, Phone, Individual Counselling

Mich Norkowski, RCC

Mich is a Registered Clinical Counsellor. They offer relationship, family and individual counselling to all folks, with experience working with/in the 2SLGBTQIA+, poly, sex work, neurodivergent and veterinary communities.

English, Associate Counsellor, Queer Identified, Available in the Evening, RCC, Non-Binary Identified, Neurodivergent, Hormone Readiness Assessment, Available on Weekends, FNHA Provider, Accepting New ClientsLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, Phone, Relationship Counselling, In-Person, Family Counselling

Laura Guenzel, RCC

Laura is a Canadian Certified Counsellor. Their counselling style is warm and nonjudgmental, creating space for you to share your story at your own pace. Laura’s focus is on providing affirming counselling for fellow ace, aro, queer, non-binary, disabled, COVID-conscious, neurodivergent, and fat people.

English, Available in the Evening, Non-Binary Identified, Queer Identified, Conversational ASL, Associate Counsellor, Available on Weekends, CCC, RCC, Sliding Scale Available, Neurodivergent, Hormone Readiness Assessment, Accepting New ClientsLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual

Samantha Cheng, RCC

Waitlist for New Clients. Samantha is a Registered Clinical Counsellor offering individual counselling and clinical supervision. She specializes in supporting folks navigating life transitions, experiencing grief and loss, or exploring questions of meaning and identity.

BIPoC Identified, English, Associate Counsellor, RCC, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Queer Identified, Available in the Evening, EMDR, Waitlist AvailableLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual

Jess Rathwell, RCC

Waitlist for New Clients. Jess is a Registered Clinical Counsellor offering individual counselling sessions as well as clinical supervision and consultation. Their values are guided by being trauma-informed, social justice, and anti-oppressive and they offer tools from narrative therapy, family systems, somatic approaches, expressive arts, and parts work.

English, Associate Counsellor, RCC, Queer Identified, Clinical Supervisor, CCC, Expressive Arts Therapy, FNHA Provider, Waitlist Available, NeurodivergentLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Consultation/Supervision, Phone, Virtual

Christie Ma, RTC

Christie is an Associate Counsellor who engages the arts as a way to access and tangibly contend with trauma, feelings, and experiences held in our bodies. They seek to connect with you where you are at and offer a collaborative therapeutic experience that honours your ways of knowing.

Queer Identified, English, Art Therapy, BIPoC Identified, Cantonese, BIPoC & Queer Identified, Accepting New Clients, Associate Counsellor, Non-Binary Identified, Available in the EveningLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, Phone, Relationship Counselling

Beth d’Aoust, RCC

Waitlist for New Clients. Beth is a Registered Clinical Counsellor offering a collaborative, client-centred, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approach. Her practice is heavily informed by systems thinking, intersectional feminism, harm reduction, non-binary values, queer theory, attachment theory, and somatics.

Queer Identified, English, Available in the Evening, Associate Counsellor, Hormone Readiness Assessment, Neurodivergent, RCC, Waitlist AvailableLuisa OspinaApril 4, 2023Virtual, Individual Counselling, Relationship Counselling, In-Person, Family Counselling

Allahna Somji, CCC

Allahna is a Canadian Certified Counsellor. Her therapeutic approach is centered around collaboration, meeting all clients with empathy and non-judgement. She hopes to create a safe and accepting space for her clients, allowing for empowerment, encouragement, and connection.

Queer Identified, English, BIPoC Identified, Accepting New Clients, Available in the Evening, Associate Counsellor, Waitlist Available, CCC, EMDR, FNHA ProviderLuisa OspinaMarch 30, 2023Individual Counselling, Virtual, In-Person