Sam Kaplan, RCC

• Sam's Rates

  15 min Phone Consultation
  No Cost

  Clinical Supervision and Consultation

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $150
  Generous: $160+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $225
  Generous: $235+

  Relationship or Family Counselling

  50 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $200
  Generous: $210+

  75 min
  Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
  Standard: $275
  Generous: $285+

  Hormone Readiness Assessments
  $270 (per two 40-minute sessions)

• Approaches in Therapy

  • Healing Centered Engagement

  • Centring Anti-Oppressive Learnings

  • EMDR

  • Harm-Reduction

  • Coping Strategies Serve Purposes

  • Somatics

  • Art Therapy​ 

• Selected Professional Training

  • Foundations of Clinical Supervision- University of Ottawa 

  • Somatic Attachment Two-Year Training

  • ​Somatics with Queer and Trans Folks

  • EMDR Comprehansive Training

  • EFFT Core Training

  • DBT Comprehensive and Advanced Trainings

  • Early Psychosis Intervention Certification

  • San'ya Cultural Competency Training

  • Response-Based Training

Bio

I often work alongside folks processing personal, collective, and systemic traumas. Specifically I often work with current and former youth in care, neurodivergent folks, folks navigating chronic pain/disabilities, queer/trans folks, sex workers, poly folks and topics around identity exploration.

In working alongside folks I often weave in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), somatic-attachment, art therapy, narrative therapy , trauma centred engagement and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT).  I see people as experts in their own lives and it is really important to me to work collaboratively alongside people and to co-create space for healing. 

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) Peoples.

Image Description: Sam is wearing a black sleeveless shirt, thus tattoos are visible on their left arm. They have a pink mullet hairstyle and a septum nose ring. They are smiling with their lips closed, and standing in front of a white wall with a blurred out vine plant.

Sam Kaplan

(they/them/theirs)
Clinical Counsellor and Supervisor
RCC

Virtual Sessions

Sam is currently only accepting new Clinical Supervision and HRT assessment clients!

If you are interested in connecting with Sam, please contact samkaplan@expressivewellness.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.