Resource List
Meet some of my favourite practitioners!
This referral list is a collection of practitioners I know, trust, and recommend, who can support you alongside our work together, or instead of working with me if you feel someone else might be a better fit. In my own healing journey, I discovered that working with different practitioners at different times helped me in ways that one approach alone couldn’t.
While that’s not the case for everyone, I know that having options can make the journey feel a little lighter and more supported. Healing often takes a village, and depending on where we are in life, our body and soul may need different kinds of care. This list also includes services I don’t provide, like in-person sessions, and most practitioners are licensed in British Columbia, so clients can often access coverage through their extended health insurance.
Somatic Therapist Body Psychotherapist, RTC, SEP
Shama is a seasoned body psychotherapist, registered therapeutic counsellor, and somatic therapist with over 15 years of experience helping people navigate depression, anxiety, stress-related conditions, grief, and trauma. Her work integrates a blend of eastern and western therapeutic modalities—such as Somatic Experiencing®, somatic touch, bioenergetics, bodynamic psychology, breathwork, EFT and meditation—into bespoke sessions tailored to each client’s unique nervous system and healing needs. Shama’s approach is deeply rooted in supporting emotional, physical, and psychological integration, facilitating transformative growth and resilience along each individual’s journey.
Registered Counsellor & Healing Guide, MA, RCC
Katya is a Vancouver‑based counsellor whose work invites clients to deepen connection with themselves and reclaim strength, resilience and embodied wellbeing. She specializes in supporting people healing from trauma, anxiety, grief, loss and life’s complex emotional disconnections, drawing on an integrative approach that blends Western therapeutic modalities—including somatic and neuroscience‑informed practices—with Indigenous and ancestral healing influences passed down through her teachers and lineage. Katya creates a deeply held space where individuality, narrative and embodied experience are honored, helping clients move beyond coping into meaningful self‑discovery and emotional freedom. Her work is grounded in relational presence, curiosity and the belief that healing emerges from reconnecting with both self and the natural world.
Registered Clinical Counsellor
MC RCC RSW
Maryam offers evidence based counselling to adults and couples both in person in Coquitlam, BC and virtually across British Columbia. She works collaboratively with clients to navigate anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, relationship challenges, caregiver burnout and more, tailoring approaches to each person’s needs. Maryam has a particular focus on supporting the BIPOC community and brings experience and sensitivity to the unique challenges and strengths within these spaces. She creates a safe, inclusive environment grounded in respect and understanding, supporting people to build clarity, resilience and meaningful growth on their healing journeys.
Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling, MPCC
Heather is a compassionate Registered Counsellor practicing in Vancouver, BC, who supports individuals, couples, and families through life’s difficult transitions, emotional challenges and patterns that feel overwhelming. With a focus on depression, codependency, anxiety and life transitions, Heather works collaboratively with clients to explore mental, emotional and behavioural patterns and cultivate meaningful change using evidence-informed and relational therapeutic approaches. Her practice is available both in-person and online, and she offers a supportive, non-judgmental space to help people build clarity, resilience and stronger connection to themselves and others.
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
Dark Woods of Grief is a grief-centered practice founded by Josea, a grief guide, facilitator, and death-informed practitioner with a background in somatic, ritual-based, and community-oriented grief work. Her approach honors grief as a natural, lifelong process that benefits from skilled witnessing, embodiment, and relational support. In addition to her 1-on-1 grief support sessions, she offers the Grief & Praise support group—an ongoing, process-based Zoom group where participants are invited to tend grief through somatic practices, writing, ritual, and shared reflection within a supportive community container. Her work supports people in meeting loss with depth, honesty, and care, while making space for both sorrow and vitality to coexist.
Traditional Chinese Medicine & NIS Practitioner
Pardeep Singh Dherari is a Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Acupuncturist in Vancouver, offering holistic care grounded in Traditional Chinese Medicine and nervous-system-informed approaches. In addition to acupuncture, Pardeep works with the Neurological Integration System (NIS)—a gentle, non-invasive modality that helps identify and release stress patterns held in the nervous system and body. NIS can be a powerful complement to counselling by supporting regulation, integration, and embodiment, particularly when emotional or psychological work feels stuck or difficult to access verbally. His work supports pain management, stress, sleep, digestion, and overall wellbeing, helping clients align physical, emotional, and mental health as part of a broader healing journey.
Registered Counsellor & Men’s Circle Facilitator
Kevin is the founder of Kevin Yarnell Wellness, dedicated to supporting men through challenges, relationship issues and other mental health concerns with tailored, evidence-informed therapeutic approaches. With lived experience and professional training Kevin creates a non-judgmental space where vulnerability is embraced and healing can unfold. Kevin also leads a weekly Men’s Circle—a supportive group designed to cultivate connection, emotional expression & growth through shared conversation and accountability in a safe environment. These circles offer an opportunity for men to build resilience, deepen self-awareness and foster meaningful support alongside their individual therapeutic work.
Liberation Mindset Coach & Integrative Earth Medicine Specialist
Ida's work blends modern coaching with ancestral and nature‑rooted wisdom to support deep personal transformation. Drawing on extensive professional coach training and her own lived experience, Ida helps individuals and couples who feel exhausted, disconnected or stuck reconnect with themselves, their relationships and the world around them through embodied reflection, goal‑setting, and holistic practices grounded in the healing power of nature. Her approach integrates narrative and existential perspectives with earth‑based and Ayurvedic principles, fostering empowerment, clarity and resilience beyond traditional talk‑based coaching. Ida now serves clients internationally, offering one‑on‑one coaching and mentorship regardless of where clients are located.