Susan (she/her) is of Afghan and Syrian heritage. Living with multiple identities—Muslim, Arab, Middle-Eastern, Canadian, someone with an invisible disability, student, and survivor—Susan understands the complexities of life and the burnout that comes with it. She is committed to social justice and addressing issues of oppression, colonialism, and injustice worldwide.

Susan comes from supporting families affected by domestic violence, as well as working alongside autistic children and youth. She hopes to work alongside individuals from diverse backgrounds and with a variety of experiences. This includes those experiencing regular burnout at the workplace, survivors of domestic violence, individuals who are neurodivergent, people dealing with intergenerational trauma, those facing health conflicts, and individuals experiencing oppression.

Susan approaches counselling with curiosity and respect, recognizing that clients are the experts in their own lives. She aims to create a comfortable, open space where clients can be themselves. She welcome feedback to ensure the work together is effective and meaningful. She draws from somatic experiencing and narrative therapy, focusing on a client-centered approach. Prioritizing the unique needs and goals of each person, helping them lead their own healing process.

Standing at 6’1”, her height might suggest a career in basketball, but her true passions lie in martial arts and volleyball. Susan holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has honed her skills on the volleyball court for many years. In her free time, she enjoys watching TV in bed, cooking hearty meals, and spending quality time with loved ones. She aspires to be the representation she needed as a 12-year-old, striving to contribute positively to the world around her.

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Hannah Jarvis (They/She) is a non-binary, queer, small-fat, settler living and working on traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Hannah holds a BA from SFU in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and is completing their Masters in Counselling at City University of Seattle (Vancouver campus). They worked for many years in both anti-violence and arts organizations where they continually noticed the ways that art and creative ways of being are intricately connected to healing.

Hannah’s lived experience with sexuality and gender exploration, grief and loss, and fat joy informs their therapeutic specialities. They wish to be a soft place to land for clients from marginalized identities who may not have had a safe enough place to explore these concerns. Hannah supports clients through identity exploration, sex, pleasure, desire concerns, and kink. They specialize in supporting clients who are in polyamorous or non-traditional relationship structures, survivors of sexual violence and they are sex worker affirming.

Hannah’s counselling style is warm, collaborative, non-judgemental, and adaptive. Their therapeutic approach is deeply rooted in previous experience as a support worker and their involvement in community activism. They are led by feminist, queer, and anti-oppressive values that center community care and harm reduction. Hannah honours clients as the experts of their own experience and is ready to meet clients where they are at with their goals for therapy. Hannah’s work is integrative and recognizes how systemic oppression impacts our health and well-being. They are passionate about Emotion-Focused Therapy, somatic based approaches, narrative therapy, and are grounded in trauma-informed practices.

Hannah works with individuals and couples. They offer sessions in English and are also learning conversational ASL. They have prior work experience with folks who have physical disabilities, cognitive disabilities, or are neurodivergent and are practiced at supporting overlapping and sometimes contradictory access needs. Hannah offers both in person and online sessions and is interested in exploring how they can make sessions as accessible as possible for their clients.

Outside of work, you can find Hannah frequenting thrift shops, bouldering, dancing, working in fat-affirming fashion spaces, and searching for the best lavender latte in the city. They love the joy of connecting with their friends and partners, bringing community members together, and collective care. Hannah is so excited to meet with you!

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I often work alongside folks processing personal, collective, and systemic traumas. Specifically I often work with current and former youth in care, neurodivergent folks, folks navigating chronic pain/disabilities, queer/trans folks, sex workers, poly folks and topics around identity exploration.

In working alongside folks I often weave in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), somatic-attachment, art therapy, narrative therapy , trauma centred engagement and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). I see people as experts in their own lives and it is really important to me to work collaboratively alongside people and to co-create space for healing. ​ In my personal life, I love the woods, the ocean, making art, gardening, and animals. I am non-binary (they/them), neurodivergent, and of European and Arab Jewish background. I am decidedly Pro-Palestine and anti-genocide. I strive towards anti-oppressive, social justice oriented practices, and also recognize that this is ongoing work of listening and learning and unlearning.

I am located on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples. ​ Counselling Approaches Healing Centered Engagement Centring Anti-Oppressive Learnings EMDR Harm-Reduction Coping Strategies Serve Purposes Somatics Art Therapy​

​ Selected Professional Training Foundations of Clinical Supervision- University of Ottawa Somatic Attachment Two-Year Training ​Somatics with Queer and Trans Folks EMDR Comprehensive Training Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Core and Advanced Trainings DBT Comprehensive and Advanced Trainings Early Psychosis Intervention Certification San’ya Cultural Competency Training Response-Based Training

Sam’s Rates *15 min Phone Consultation: No Cost

Individual Counselling/Clinical Consultation

50 minute sessions: standard $150, sliding scale full *75 minute sessions: standard $200, sliding scale full *$300 per Hormone Readiness Assessment (two 40-minute sessions)

​Relationship or Family Counselling: *50 minute sessions: standard $200, sliding scale full *75 minute sessions: standard $250, sliding scale full ​(all rates include GST) ​

Sam can work with folks utilizing the Residential Historical Abuse Program, First Nations Health Authority funding, Crime Victims Assistance Program, and Autism Funding Unit.

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My name is Jessamine (she/her) and I am a practicum student counsellor and uninvited settler on stolen xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) lands. I am a cisgendered, queer, first generation Filipino-Taiwanese immigrant and diasporic writer, artist, and facilitator. My approach to therapy is intersectional, social justice-oriented, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed. I believe that experiences like healing and trauma are multi-layered, non-linear, and rarely occur in isolation to systems, communities, and the environment. I also believe that counselling is a bi- or multi-directional process where the client(s) and counsellor learn from and impact one another. You can expect me to be collaborative, warm, and curious.

I work with individuals and couples exploring concerns and themes around anxiety, depression, complex family dynamics, grief, identity exploration, relationship conflict, religious trauma and spiritual exploration, and navigating diasporic connection/disconnection to ancestry and culture.

I use an eclectic and integrative approach but am drawn to Narrative Therapy, Art Therapy, Internal Family Systems/ parts work, and Somatic Therapy. I hope to be able to co-create spaces to dream alongside one another, collaborate together, and foster space for BIPOC magic, ancestral wisdom, and learning from non-human kin.

Outside of counselling, I find joy in anime and manga, music, games, collaborative and parallel art-making, and community.

My name is Jessamine (she/her) and I am a practicum student counsellor and uninvited settler on s... Read More