Joe Letwin, Master's in Counselling Psychology, RCC
Working with clients is a collaborative and creative process of discovery and healing. My role as a counsellor is to offer understanding, support, and compassion to help the process unfold. I believe in and am committed to creating a safe, open, and caring relationship with clients as they look more deeply into their lives. My work as a counsellor is influenced by several therapeutic orientations and theoretical approaches, and is uniquely tailored to the individual views, needs, and goals of the client. Drawing upon my clinical skills and experience, I creatively work with thoughts, feelings, behaviours and spiritual concerns in a holistic and integrative way. Clients benefit from a transformative journey that involves greater self-awareness, understanding, and freedom as they take the steps that lead to change. They find and connect with their natural wisdom, strength, and healing capacity. As they stand within the truth of their own experience they can more meaningfully and effectively deal with life challenges.
I hold a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology and am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. I have received clinical training in many areas, including cognitive-behavioral, narrative, family systems, trauma, and existential approaches along with somatic and mindfulness practices. I have worked extensively with individuals, families, and couples. helping clients identify and heal emotional wounds, find effective ways to deal with depression and anxiety, manage addictive behaviours, and reduce and manage stress.
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Lisa Harrison, Master's in Counselling, CCC
Lisa has a Masters in Counselling from City University of Seattle and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Lisa became passionate about counselling from Outreach and Advocacy work. Lisa’s experience as an EAP Counsellor allows her to facilitate a solution-focused and short-term counselling approach to a diverse set of clients dealing with various personal issues including relationships, stress, trauma, addiction, grief, loss, anxiety and depression that may or may not be work-related. Lisa incorporates cognitive restructuring and exposure-based protocol for clients to develop skills and strategies to begin managing depressive, anxiety and PTSD symptoms. The therapeutic alliance is critical for one to feel safe, empowered and grow more capable in making adaptive responses to life’s daily challenges. Lisa collaboratively works to assess and evaluate clients thought patterns, values and belief systems to set objectives and develop a strategy to problem-solve and achieve personal and professional goals. In her spare time Lisa enjoys running, yoga, and dog walks with her Daschshund.
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Ryan Leiderman, Master's in Counselling, RCC
Ryan is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, with a Master’s degree in Counselling from City University. In his work, he helps individuals dealing with depression and anxiety, addictions, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Ryan sees therapy as collaborative, and his clients’ own wisdom and life experiences as highly valued in the process. His approach to counselling uses non-judgmental compassionate inquiry to gain insight into how we’ve gotten here, along with mindfulness to meet the present moment, and solution-focused therapy to guide the path forward.
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Megan Kadler, Master's in Counselling, RCC
Megan is a believer in possibilities, connections, hope, and transformation. Her dedication is to honoring and valuing the unique perspectives, life experiences, and wisdom of each person she works alongside. Megan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Counselling degree from City University of Seattle. Her thesis focuses on articulating aspects of a novel approach to therapy using collaborative practices, horses and a nurturing and normal environment for clients to heal, recover and transform from trauma and mental health challenges. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and has post-graduate training in Collaborative-Dialogic and Narrative practices. Megan comes from a background of providing services for folks of all ages and abilities struggling with various challenges in their lives including problematic substance use and relational and behavioral challenges. She is passionate about the idea that all people can heal when they are seen and treated as people.
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Paul Slakov, MA, CCC
I am a Canadian Certified Counsellor with over 15 years of counselling experience. It takes courage to seek and begin therapy, and I value and respect that. I provide you with a compassionate and non-judgemental space which helps you feel free to share and work on whatever is most important to you, be it your deep strengths or that which you have felt you must hide. We all need to understand how we make sense of what has happened and what is happening in our lives. You can change the beliefs that hold you back. You can improve your relationships: with intimate partners, family, friends, your community, yourself. Unconditional support and acceptance is something necessary to therapy. This is a central focus for me, something I offer and encourage in my clients. It is what helps us to unite in the movement towards contentment, integrity and personal success. This inner work can be painful and exhilarating – it is always worth it.
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Jason Somersett, Master's in Counselling Psychology, RCC
Jason received his Masters in Counselling Psychology, and he is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors. He has experience working with adults, youth, and families struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, career and life transitions, chronic pain, ADHD, and self-harming behaviour. Jason uses an integrative approach that encompasses aspects of Person-Centered Therapy, Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, and Observed Experiential Integration, depending on the needs and wishes of the client. Jason states, “As a counselor, there is nothing more important than developing a trusting relationship with my client. Part of this responsibility is to foster an environment whereby the client feels safe to discuss issues that can be very difficult. Much of the work in therapy involves developing awareness; this includes recognizing personal strengths, as well as the patterns in situations, behaviors, thoughts and, emotions. It can take a great deal of courage and work to face these things, and I believe that it is an honor to be present with a client during this journey of self-exploration.
Outside of counseling, one of the things I enjoy is being active, which includes hiking along some of the great trails in BC with my dog”.
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Alexandra Regier, Master's in Counselling Psychology, MEd, RCC
Alex is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and obtained her Masters’ degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia. She brings her life experience and a background in working with LBGT+ individuals, chronic illness, and loss to her practice. Alex works with diverse individuals who are experiencing a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders, self-esteem issues, interpersonal difficulties, and life transitions. Alex’s approach is collaborative, strengths-based, and holistic (mind, body, spirit), incorporating Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and experiential techniques to accommodate the unique needs of each individual client. Alex states, “Discovering that there is a different way to do things allows us the freedom to change and make healthier choices for ourselves. We all have the ability to move towards healing and self-acceptance and away from the old patterns of thinking and behaviour that bring pain. When we realize what is truly meaningful to us, and brings us joy, we are open to our genuine self. We are then able to re-direct our energy towards finding a deeper peace, greater life balance, and higher level of personal strength and contentment”.
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Donna Chen, RCC
Donna (she/her) believes that our mental health struggles are powerful, meaningful, and appropriate responses to harmful systemic forces, experiences of relational trauma, and a deep loss of safety, trust, connection, or culture. She sees counselling and the therapeutic process as a conduit for reclaiming sensations, feelings, resources, and choices that can mobilize us toward aliveness, dignity, ease, rest, and joy.
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Donna is passionate about working with clients to identify and honour triggers and patterns that stem from survival strategies and defences, while collaborating on growing curiosities, skills, and capacity to transform these strategies. Most of her clinical experiences are with communities and individuals living with Complex Trauma, in supporting them around navigating anxiety, depression, anger, grief, chronic pain, substance use, sexual abuse and assault, intimate partner violence, life transitions, relationship conflict, and racial-cultural identity struggles in a variety of settings.
Donna’s therapeutic approaches centre culture, the body, creativity, and resilience, and combine somatic and expressive arts modalities with narrative, internal family systems, solution-oriented and cognitive behavioural approaches for meeting clients where they are. She is purposeful in integrating rituals in the therapeutic context, especially when accompanying clients in their explorations of intergenerational and ancestral healing.
Donna’s ancestral name is 棠棠 Tangtang (pronounced as t-ong t-ong), given to her by her great grandfather to mean crab apple blossoms.
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Anita Stocker, Master's in Counselling Psychology, RCC
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Roz Sayani, Master's in Counselling Psychology, RCC
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor(RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. I have a Master’s in Counselling Psychology from Adler University as well as a Certificate in Addictions Counselling.
In my spare time, I love to play hockey and other sports and enjoy outdoor activities such as kayaking and walking in the wilderness. I enjoy reading and listening to music which comprises part of my self-care. Meditation and my own personal growth are also key components of my self-care. I use the pronouns she/her and identify as a queer woman and am a visible minority which puts me in a unique position to understand and work with individuals with various intersectionalities not only using my academic knowledge but also my lived experience to help guide therapy and assist others in growth.
My primary goal is to create a safe space for my clients which fosters change and growth. My main modality is Narrative Therapy however, I use a variety of interventions and techniques in my work from various modalities where needed to help clients on their journey, such as DBT, CBT, Mindfulness, Attachment theory, Gottman’s theory for couples counselling and Family Systems Theory when working with families. I enjoy working with youth and adults, inclusive of all genders. I operate from a traumainformed approach and have a great deal of experience with addictions, trauma and mood disorders. My primary goal is to create a safe space for change, growth and healing
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