Whether this is your first time considering therapy or you’ve been through this process before, welcome.
About Me
Hello! I’m Natasha. I’m a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC #11241387) based out of British Columbia, Canada. I offer compassionate, affirming, trauma-informed, and liberation-oriented individual virtual therapy services to adults (18+) in BC.
Read about my approach below, and consider booking 15 minutes to chat with me, free of cost, to see if I could be the right counsellor for you.
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How I Work
My work as a counsellor is an extension of me as a person. I approach each relationship from the heart with warmth, discernment, and care. Our work together will be conversational, creative, and collaborative.
I strive to offer a reliable container within which you can safely and gently explore your experiences, choices, relationships, and your inner world. Throughout this process we will also appreciate your innate dignity as well as the ways in which you skillfully enact your agency in the world.
Individual and collective wellbeing
Therapeutic relationships can allow for something truly profound to occur when two people sit together with the respectful intention of witnessing and responding to the emotional needs that surface for the client. This is one of the aspects of counselling that I appreciate most. I also hold to be true that the well-being and transformation of individuals, social systems, and land are closely intertwined. Therapy can help to process our emotional responses and the meaning we make of the challenges we face even as I honour that a person’s suffering cannot be fully understood or addressed by examining the individual alone. As I support clients to engage their precious agency in the world, I do not lose sight that discontinuing harm and enacting reparation must happen at every level of society, from individual relationships to governing institutions and social structures.
Interpersonal, experiential, & anti-oppressive
My approach is rooted in interpersonal connection, experiential transformation, and anti-oppressive principles. This means I keep in mind how power structures impact clients’ lives and that these dynamics can echo in the counselling relationship. I endeavour not to take myself too seriously and to embrace open communication, client feedback, and enacting repair as part of a healthy therapeutic process.
I uphold the dignity of clients through careful attunement and ally-ship. I will sometimes challenge and encourage you to explore and reflect on your assumptions, and will do so from a place of openness and respect and in alignment with your therapeutic priorities.
Therapeutic models
If you are looking for a specific kind of therapy, the following are some of the main therapies and philosophies that influence my work. If you do not have a specific therapy type in mind, you do not need to know what any of this means to begin therapy:
Anti-oppression
Solution-Focused Therapy
Narrative therapy
Existential therapy
Intersectional Feminism
Decolonization
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Somatic Experiencing
Response Based Practice
Neurodivergent Affirming
Counselling Topics
The following list is to give you a commonly recognizable list of the types of topics and experiences we might unpack together. In sessions, you get to decide on the particulars of how your story(s) is best described and expressed:
anxiety & depression
finding meaning & purpose
life transitions
loneliness & social anxiety
relationship conflict
burnout
chronic illness
substance use & addiction
grief & loss
thoughts of death and suicide
sexuality & gender expression
oppression (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.)
neurodivergence of all sorts
religious/high control group trauma
navigating bi-racial identity
response to violence
Some realities of therapy to consider
While I take great care to ensure that our sessions provide a safe container to explore difficult issues, clients should know that—like other treatment modalities—there are risks that may arise through the process of counselling. Although there are many potential benefits to therapy, emotions and memories may surface that lead to strong feelings or discomfort; changes in awareness may alter how you perceive yourself, and these changes may consequently bring about changes in your personal relationships. We will work together to find a pace and level of intensity that honours your existing capacity for change and agency, and to explore the supports available to you both in and outside of counselling.
My Educational Background
Masters in Counselling Psychology at UVic
Bachelor of Arts degree Major in Psychology at UVic
Internal Family Systems - Stepping Stone Training
Nature Based Therapy-trained with Human Nature Counselling Society
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy Level 1