Alison brings authenticity, warmth, and compassion to her work. Through collaboration, empathy, respect, and evidence-based interventions, Alison strives to instill hope and inspire change while encouraging clients to bring awareness to their capacity for growth. By examining client patterns and understanding how clients get stuck, she can help create a path toward real and sustainable positive change. A person-centered approach guides Alison as she applies solution-focused, strength-based, and cognitive behavioural therapy techniques to her practice. Alison’s areas of interest include anxiety, stress management, depression, interpersonal issues, and life transitions. As a mother of two young children, she is also passionate about parenting and how to navigate its challenges.

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Hi, I’m Jennica—a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor who believes in the healing power of connection, empathy, and being truly seen and heard. I’ve always been curious about people—why we feel the way we do, what shapes our choices, and how we grow through life’s ups and downs. That curiosity turned into a calling to support others with compassion, understanding, and care.

I studied at The Vancouver College of Counsellor Training. I have been practicing for a counsellor for Two Years, and I now work with individuals, couples, and families of all ages. My approach is gentle, collaborative, and tailored to each person. I use a mix of talk therapy, creative tools like art-based methods, and proven techniques like CBT and DBT to support emotional healing and personal growth.

My goal is to create a safe, welcoming space where you can explore what’s going on in your life—whether you’re dealing with anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, or just feeling stuck. We’ll go at a pace that feels right for you, and work together toward greater clarity, confidence, and well-being.

To recharge, I love spending time in nature—hiking, camping, and discovering new places. I also enjoy curling up with a good book, traveling to new spots, and trying out new recipes in the kitchen.

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Maggie is committed, dedicated and passionate about creating a space of safety, comfortability and inclusivity where humans can experience whatever they need to flourish into who they truly want to be. Maggie has supported 1-on-1 with neurodiverse children between the ages of 4-17 mainly diagnosed (but not exclusive to) with Autism, and ADHD for the past 8 years, and additionally supported staff in the management and HR management role to promote mental health wellness and work life balance for the past 4 years. She has experience in how to navigate the system of Autism funding, supported families in navigating those services, and has collaborated with Behaviour Analysts, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and school teachers/staff (integrating Individualized Education Plans [IEP’s] into 1-on-1 goals). Maggie strives to be the open, approachable, caring, empathic, compassionate, bubbly, and a humorous person in your life. She takes a person-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based, collaborative and play-based (for the younger ones!) approach.

Additionally, Maggie’s approach is grounded in Narrative, and Acceptance and Commitment therapy, while weaving and sprinkling in aspects of Solution Focused, Dialectical and Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic techniques to discover our potential and strength, while recognizing our resiliency towards an ever-growing life journey. Finding an approach that feels right for you is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. ​

You are Maggie’s number one priority, and fostering the therapeutic relationship and alliance is something she emphasizes. She is passionate about working with neurotypical and neurodivergent children (ages 6+), adolescence, teens, adults and anyone just trying to find their place in the world. Maggie completed her Masters in June of 2025, and is now slowly working towards becoming a licensed play therapist. Additionally, she hopes to continuously grow her repertoire of ways she can wholeheartedly develop into a better support person for her clients.

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Many people I work with find it difficult to be at peace and to live full, meaningful lives—let alone enjoy them. This is often because they feel overwhelmed by painful emotions, memories, and thoughts, or because they feel alone and stuck in unwanted emotions such as anger, fear, sadness, shame, or guilt. Often, they have been let down by others and carry lingering feelings of hurt and resentment. They may be hard on themselves—judging, criticizing, and expecting rejection. They tell themselves things like, “I’m not good enough,” “I’m not lovable,” “my life is all wrong,” “it’s not supposed to be like this,” or “where do I go from here?” Sometimes, they even come to hate themselves and what their life has become.

Many have tried to “push it down” or “walk it off,” only to find that the unpleasant feelings continue to follow them. Some, new to therapy, worry that therapy won’t help—or might even make things worse. Others come to me with hope and expectations that a new approach will help issues lingering after years of therapy. I am passionate about working with adults, young adults, and older adolescents (ages 16+). I am available to provide ADHD/psychodiagnostics assessments (ages 18+).

My clinical experience includes working in a trauma clinic, an immigration clinic, a long-term care home, and private practice. I provide psychotherapy services to individuals experiencing anxiety, adjustment difficulties, depression, grief and loss, interpersonal challenges, life transitions, stress management concerns, and trauma. In my practice, I strive to create a warm and safe space grounded in unconditional positive regard and authenticity, where clients can explore their struggles and deepest wounds. I aim to understand and meet each person’s unique needs. I am collaborative in that I respect the boundaries of my clients and bring a wealth of knowledge about effective therapeutic approaches that will be helpful, including cognitive-behavioural therapy, cognitive-processing therapy, emotion-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new cafés and restaurants. I am grateful for the mild weather and four seasons Victoria has to offer—you’ll often find me admiring flowers, hiking, walking along the waterfront, or visiting local beaches.

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Jessica is a relationship-driven counsellor and educator that works from a person-centered lens to connect adults, youth and children with their best selves. Jessica has a passion for social justice, and believes we all deserve to live happy, fulfilled lives. This includes advocating for the rights of neurodivergent as well as disabled individuals, promoting body positivity and speaking out about the importance of national reconciliation and healing within our country. Jessica recognizes that she lives and works on the traditional territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Lkwungen-speaking peoples and that she has a role in reconciliation.

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Ali was born and raised in Victoria, BC, where she lives with her husband and their rescue dog, Lena. Ali is a high school art and psychology teacher. Through her work in public education, Ali has become a strong advocate for inclusive education and creating a safe space for diversity and growth. With over a decade of experience working in education, community art, yoga, and mindfulness, Ali brings a wide-ranging and empathetic approach to her counselling practice. She strives to create a safe, supportive space where clients feel heard, valued, and empowered to explore their goals for therapy. Ali believes there is no one-size-fits-all model to healing. She works collaboratively with her clients, drawing on Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, as well as creative and mindful practices, to tailor the process to each person’s unique needs.

Ali is passionate about supporting adults, youth, and children through challenges with anxiety, depression, and stress. She also focuses on life transitions, identity exploration, self-compassion, and building stronger relationships and communication skills. Additionally, Ali has a specialty focus area working with individuals and couples navigating infertility, reproductive health challenges and family-building journeys. In this meaningful work, she brings deep compassion and a trauma-informed lens, along with lived experience and research expertise.

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Deborah is a dedicated and passionate teacher, counsellor, and mom to three children. She completed her M. Ed. in school counselling in 2023 and is a registered clinical counsellor (RCC) with the BCACC. Deborah has been an educator for ten years in learning support and inclusive education. Deborah worked as a middle school counsellor throughout her practicum and internship in her master’s program and is now an elementary and middle school counsellor in the Sooke School District along with being a counsellor at Heartwood Family Wellness.

Deborah takes a trauma-informed, person centered, and solution focused approach, believing that we all have the inherent ability to find the strength and resiliency within ourselves for growth and change. Deborah’s empathy, care, and presence allows clients to feel safe, seen, and heard. Deborah is particularly passionate about child advocacy, building confidence, self-worth and social skills. She is experienced in supporting families and children with navigating school challenges such as social and emotional regulation, anxiety (general, separation, social, performance, test), academic strategies for learning, Ministry Designations and Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), chronic absenteeism, and teacher and school staff collaboration.

Deborah is well-informed in the areas of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide ideation, attention difficulties, and neurodivergence. Deborah is experienced in working with those who have suffered childhood trauma, such as physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, grief and loss, and refugee and immigration trauma. Deborah is culturally sensitive in her work and is open to working with individuals of all backgrounds; she acknowledges and respects her client’s cultural background, beliefs, and practices. Deborah is also a strong ally to the 2S/LGBTQQIA+ community.

Deborah recognizes the pain and suffering that colonization has had and continues to have on the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island, including forced displacement and assimilation, intergenerational trauma and suffering, and systemic discrimination and marginalization. She is committed to truth and reconciliation and decolonization. Deborah acknowledges that she lives, works, and learns on the traditional, unceded, and occupied territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and Coast Salish peoples, the Lək̓wəŋən peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and the T’Sou-ke and Scia’new Nation and Nuu-chah-nulth: Pacheedaht Nation.

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Shyla strives to create a supportive and judgement-free space in which clients feel safe and empowered to explore their struggles and reach their goals. Driven by a desire to understand and meet the unique needs of each individual, Shyla draws on a number of effective therapeutic practices, including, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy when working with her clients. With a focus on client strength and resilience, Shyla believes in an individual’s capacity to grow, change, and to build healthier life patterns.

Shyla is passionate about working with both adults and youth and her areas of interest include, but are not limited to, depression, anxiety, life transitions, grief and loss, interpersonal issues, and parenting.

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