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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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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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Deborah is a dedicated and passionate teacher, mom to three children and is finishing her M.Ed. In school counselling. Deborah has been an educator for eight years in learning support and inclusive education. Over the past two years, she has worked as a middle school counsellor throughout her practicum and internship in her master’s program. 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 and working with the LGBTQ2SI+ community. She is experienced in supporting families and children with navigating school challenges such as social and emotional regulation, separation anxiety, academic strategies for learning, Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and teacher and school staff collaboration. Deborah is well-informed in the areas of anxiety, depression, attention difficulties, neurodivergence, child abuse, and trauma. 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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Panida has worked with youth, adults, couples, and families who face a range of mental health and relationship concerns such as anxiety, depression, traumas, dissociation, family/marital/couples conflict, workplace conflict, life transitions, self-esteem, identity, problematic eating behaviours, grief and loss, and spiritual development.

She takes on a strength-based and culturally sensitive approach to help clients understand challenges presented, explore the underlying issues, develop new skills and capacities, support them through changing and healing processes, and facilitate growth. It is empowering each unique therapeutic journey by finding and focusing on clients inner strengths and reconnecting with their authentic selves.

Panida is interested in issues arising from childhood trauma, relational trauma, and unresolved grief. Trauma can be difficult to recognize because it can manifest differently for each client ranging from mental, emotional, physical, behavioural, to relational reactions to trauma. It often goes hand-in-hand with relationship issues and other mental health issues such as anxiety and depression as well as physical health problems. Panida helps her clients with addressing the comprehensive impact of unresolved trauma and grief on their lives. She collaboratively works with her clients in a safe, trauma-informed and creative non-intrusive way to promote improved holistic health.

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Amanda brings 10 years of social work practice to her relationships with clients. She has worked with individuals and families, providing casework and psychotherapy. Amanda holds hope for her clients’ futures when they struggle with finding hope for themselves. She also believes everyone can live a full, meaningful life regardless of their barriers and stressors.

Amanda works with clients (and their families) of all ages, with goals of addressing mental distress. She has a practice interest in working with people going through transitions, such as becoming a parent, infertility, addressing a loss or grieving, being overwhelmed with responsibilities, or returning to work. Amanda also maintains a practice interest in supporting men addressing complex situations, such as the transition into fathering.

Amanda’s practice style is compassionate but direct. She eclectically incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, narrative therapy and brief (solution focused) therapy, into her sessions. She strives to ensure sessions are safe, comfortable and meaningful. Sessions can be conducted in person or virtually.

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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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