Shana Soo, RCC

Associate Counsellor
(they/them/theirs or she/her/hers)

Virtual Sessions

Shana is currently accepting new clients!

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

Areas of Focus

I have experience both professional and lived in various areas such as:

  • neurodivergence and/or disabilities

  • navigating changes in relationships (such as opening or closing relationships, boundaries around kink or poly/nonmono, alternate relationship structures)

  • exploring sexuality and gender identity

  • complex trauma and chronic suicidal ideation

  • chronic health concerns

  • COVID concerns

  • recovering from religious institutes

Who I Work With

  • ND/ADHD/disabilities/spoonies

  • 2SLGBTQIA+

  • BDSM/kinky/leather

  • QTBIPOC

  • Poly/ethical non-monogamy

  • Chronic illnesses

What to Expect

Guided by anti-oppression, intersectional feminism, disability justice, harm reduction, and anti-colonialism, Shana continues learning to dismantle and disrupt systems to better advocate for safe spaces both in and outside of the counselling room. They try to weave in pieces of DBT-informed skills building, parts work, and narrative therapy. You can expect Shana to be collaborative, compassionate, inviting, and nonjudgmental. She hopes to co-create safe spaces for exploration and processing, however that may look for you.

Background

Shana has a background working with children, youth, and young adults who face mental health challenges. Their work in the nonprofit and public health system includes working with those facing crises, suicidality, houselessness, substance use, sex work, employment or educational challenges, identity, trauma, and neurodivergence.

In their own time, you can find Shana dancing in the studio, bonding with animals, creating art, or in nature searching for some water. She also enjoys spending time with her friends and family (including two black cats and a cornsnake!).

They are located on stolen, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Shana’s Rates

15 min Phone Consultation
No Cost

Individual Counselling

50 min
Sliding Scale: Waitlist
Standard: $140
Generous: $145+

75 min
Sliding Scale: Waitlist
Standard: $200
Generous: $205+

Relationship Counselling

50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $170
Generous: $175+

75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $235
Generous: $240+

Shana’s Availability

Location: Virtual

Days and Hours:

  • Tuesday 1:00pm - 5:00pm (Virtual) 

  • Wednesday 1:00pm - 6:00pm (Virtual)

  • Alternating Fridays 11:00am - 7:00pm (Virtual)

Approaches in Therapy

  • DBT

  • Parts/IFS

  • Narrative

Licensure & Degrees

  • Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

  • Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association

Selected Professional Training

  • TBA

Shana Soo
RCC, CCC

Image Description: Shana is wearing a purple collared long sleeve shirt with a pink rose and leaf print. She is wearing square glasses and is smiling in front of a river with rocks. Her hair, which is black, is styled half up and half down and the ends of her hair are blonde.

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