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Julia is not accepting new clients. Julia Ossipova is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. With 10 years in the mental health field, Julia is experienced in helping individuals, couples, and families address a wide variety of life challenges and improve their mental health and relationships. Julia often combines multiple therapeutic approaches in order to provide comprehensive, well-rounded care to her clients. She uses elements of Narrative, Cognitive-Behavioural, Acceptance-Commitment, and Solution-Focused therapies and remains open to drawing from other theories to suit the needs and personalities of her clients.

Julia likes to think of the counselling process as a shared journey. She feels privileged to be invited to join her clients on their unique and adventurous travels towards meaningful change. Coming from a client-centred, strengths-based, culturally-sensitive approach, she envisions clients as the captains of these journeys, trusting their wisdom, experience, and intuition. She is not afraid to join them in the darkest hours of the trip, invests fully into helping them navigate the maps, and is there to celebrate the joys along the way.

Julia has a wealth of experience working with trauma stemming from childhood experiences, crime and violence, unexpected events, and challenging life situations. She uses a trauma-informed approach in her therapy, shares knowledge about the effects of trauma, and remains attuned to client’s unique needs along the way. Julia’s gentle and respectful approach often helps couples and individuals find their way through relationship difficulties and towards healthier partnerships grounded in collaboration, mutual support, and effective communication. She is likewise experienced in helping clients through the end of their relationships. In addition, Julia has years of experience working with youth, young adults, and families, and is knowledgeable in the intricacy of challenges faced by young people today. Julia welcomes clients of all ages, cultural backgrounds, identities, and walks of life into her practice and is ready to help them address a wide variety of concerns.

Areas of Expertise:

Anxiety Depression Emotion Regulation Life transitions Perfectionism Personal growth Relationship difficulties Self esteem Social skills Stress Management Trauma Youth and Young Adult challenges

Languages: English, Russian

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**Yanna is currently not accepting new couples or youth clients **

Yanna is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with over 5 years of experience in diverse clinical and educational settings. Her personal and professional experience enable her to intuitively uncover unconscious patterns that hold clients back in their lives. She believes that shame and unresolved trauma cause the majority of obstacles to a healthy relationship with self and others. Collaboratively, she uses a solution focused approach to create lasting changes.

Yanna is most joyful climbing and mountain biking in the wilderness of the West Coast.

Therapeutic Approach Yanna’s therapeutic work is person centered, and as such is tailored specifically to every client’s unique background and life challenges.

Yanna is specialized in numerous therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), and Attachment Theory. In addition, she utilizes a model based on Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) to aid in identifying and expressing core emotions. Across all modalities, her work is rooted in increasing self-compassion and working through beliefs and habits that are no longer helpful. Yanna is currently being trained in EMDR, a specialized modality that is efficient in processing trauma memories.

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Areas of Expertise

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Self-worth/self-esteem
• Parenting, Co-parenting
• Relationship Issues
• Trauma
• Life Transitions
• Burnout

Yanna also works with Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP)

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Linda is not accepting ICBC clients at this time.

Linda is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). She holds a Master of Arts degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Toronto and brings over 18 years of experience providing counselling services to children, youth, adults, and families with the Ministry of Children and Family Development. It is Linda’s genuine, caring, and compassionate approach that is instrumental in creating a safe and empowering relationship with her clients to support them to reach their true potential for a more fulfilling life.

Therapeutic Approach:

At the root of Linda’s treatment philosophy is a belief in the importance of developing a trusting and collaborative therapeutic relationship and in the power of individuals to harness their strengths to make real changes in their lives. Everyone comes with a unique experience and with unique personal struggles. Linda believes that people are extremely resilient and so with the proper support they are able to overcome obstacles and find healing, personal growth, and lasting change.

Linda is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Attachment Repair and Processing Therapy (ARPT), Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Trauma Focused CBT (CBT-TF). Linda works with her clients from a person-centred approach to strengthen healthy communication, emotional regulation, and coping skills.

Areas of Expertise:

Anxiety

Depression

Trauma

Emotion Regulation

Relationship issues

Family Issues

Parenting

Couples counselling

Life Transitions

Life Coaching

Personal Growth

Stress management/burn out

Languages:

English, Mandarin, Cantonese

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PEGAH ONLY AVAILABLE FOR VIRTUAL SESSIONS FROM JULY 6TH TO 19TH

Pegah Behbehani is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (#18073) with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. Her passion is to help people overcome personal crises towards deep healing and personal success. Her new journey began when she immigrated to Canada, and decided to radically shift from her career in business and industrial management to a one that was more meaningful and served others. As an immigrant, she had to overcome many challenges. Through this process, she learned to connect with her inner strengths and developed insights into the untapped potential that we all have to gain strength from our setbacks and to thrive from them. Pegah has a long history of working with individuals from diverse backgrounds. In addition to a Master’s in Counselling Psychology from Adler University she also has both a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering. Pegah has two decades of international experience in business and management settings as a software programmer, systems analyst, management consultant, and human resource specialist in different manufacturing organizations as well as her role as a Teacher Assistant and academic researcher at universities in Iran. Her passion for research inspired her to publish a book about Iranian Entrepreneur Organization: IT Domains in Tehran. Pegah draws from a variety of therapeutic approaches including Mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Act Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Bowen family systems therapy, Narrative therapy. Pegah collaborative style of counselling is informed by trauma-informed therapy, strength-based therapy and multicultural and diversity approach. Pegah is also working toward additional specializations in EFT (Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy) and EMDR therapy. Services: Pegah provides individual, couple, and family counselling.

Languages: English, Farsi

Areas of Focus: • Depression • Anxiety • Low Mood • Stress Management • Emotional Regulations • Anger Management • Trauma • PTSD • Social Anxiety • Life transitions • Phase of Life Adjustment • Codependency • Grief & Loss • Relational Issues • Women’s Issues • Self-esteem issues • Isolation & Loneliness • Social Skills • Life Coaching

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Dan Monument is a Register Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. Dan brings over 10 years of experience working with families, parents, and youth from diverse backgrounds who experience challenges related to trauma, addiction, and mental health. In his work with individuals and couples, Dan utilizes solution-focused strategies and trauma-informed principles to help clients develop effective means of self-regulation and build healthy relationships.

Theoretical Orientation:

Dan approaches each and every individual and couple as a unique entity deserving of a unique therapeutic approach. Developing a foundation of trust through listening and understanding each client’s personality and accounts of their relationship experiences, personal and family histories, is vital to creating an strong therapeutic partnership and plan for effective treatment. Dan draws upon training from a variety of therapeutic modalities including Solution-Focussed Brief Therapy, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness practices, and Bader-Pearson Couples Counselling.

Call/text. 778 316 8080 for an appointment

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