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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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Rebecca has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University (NYU). She is a Registered Social Worker with the British Columbia College of Social Workers and has been providing counseling for over 12 years. She can work in English and Mandarin and enjoys working with children, youth and adults who wish to improve their self-esteem, strengthen their relationships, and develop the courage to take on new challenges.  Rebecca specializes in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy, which are the primary orientations of her work. She may discuss one’s conscious and unconscious thoughts, dreams, and fantasies to understand one’s desires, conflicts, anger, and fears… Rebecca does her best to provide a safe and trusting space for exploring one’s emotions, relationship patterns, and the problems one feels stuck in life.

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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 wishes to become certified as a play therapist as soon as she completes her master’s degree. Finally, 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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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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Becca is dedicated to working with children, youth, and families of all walks of life. She believes in working collaboratively with families to identify their personal and family goals. Becca has experience working with both neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals and enjoys learning from the perspectives of those with whom she works.

Becca practices positive behavioural support as well as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). She believes in using evidence based practices while maintaining a strong therapeutic relationship. Becca is a Category A Behaviour Consultant on the Registry of Autism Service Providers.

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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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Reilly works with children, youth, and adults of all ages facing a range of challenges including anxiety, depression, gender and sexual identity, trauma, disordered eating, and obsessive-compulsive behaviours. She has a practice interest in working with gender diverse and queer youth, as well as with individuals who have experienced trauma. She utilises a strengths-based, person-centred, social-justice oriented approach in her work with clients.

Reilly employs a variety of therapeutic modalities, including narrative therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness-based therapy, and somatic experiencing in her work with clients. She aims to create a safe and trusting therapeutic environment where empathy is at the forefront, ensuring clients feel deeply understood and supported in their journey towards change and healing.

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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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Sophie comes from a background of working within community not-for-profits in the Greater Victoria area. She embodies the practice of trauma-informed, client-first care in her work, stemming from her career in crisis-response and community-led cooperatives. She brings an open, authentic, and curious approach to her practice, creating a safe space for clients to explore what brings them to counselling. Sophie works within a range of experiences, including anxiety, depression, grief and loss, crisis, trauma, self-esteem, and identity exploration.

Using different therapeutic modalities, Sophie works with clients to overcome negative behaviors and create new thought patterns, mindful habits, and positive self-reflection. Sophie is well-versed in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Brief Solution Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Somatic Therapy and she holds a special place in her heart for Compassion-Based Therapy. Sophie utilizes clients own strengths and collaborates with clients to endorse positive self-reinforcement, and is open to using a variety of techniques with her clients.

Sophie (she/her) is a graduate from Yorkville University and recently received her Master of Counselling in Psychology. In her spare time, you can find Sophie hiking with her three dogs and exploring the beautiful wilderness that Victoria has to offer.

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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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