Alumni Directory

 

Laura Belland

Areas of Specialization

  • Clients who are dealing with anxiety/social anxiety, perfectionism, and depression.

  • Limiting beliefs about themselves, and negative thoughts that keep resurfacing.

  • Negative body image and disordered eating.

  • Self-esteem and self-worth.

  • Being stuck and barriers to becoming your most vibrant self.

  • Adolescent and teen issues: friendships and difficult emotions, anxiety, and social anxiety, building self-confidence and working on recognizing and growing your strengths.

  • Counselling for Parents on childhood emotional and behavioural regulation.

Contact

Website: alivecounselling.com

Email: laura@alivecounselling.com 

Phone: 250-681-1736


Ranae Clarkson

Areas of Specialization

  • Life transitions

  • Self-esteem/Self-compassion

  • Intimate Partner Violence

  • Registered with CVAP, FNHA & ICBC

Contact

Website: https://www.connectcounsellingsociety.ca/

Email: renae@connectcounsellingsociety.ca


Samantha

Cooper

Areas of Specialization

  • Children 5+, adolescents, and young adults.

  • TF-CBT, relationships, anxiety, self-esteem, self-compassion, and emotional regulation.

Contact

Website: alivecounselling.com

Email: samantha@alivecounselling.com 


Barb Egan

Areas of Specialization

  • Clinical Supervision

  • Anxiety, Stress, & Depression

  • Athletes, Coaches, & Teams

  • Changing negative self-talk and self-esteem

  • Couples, Families, and Relationships

  • Pregnancy, Postpartum, Motherhood, & Women’s Issues

  • University/Young-Adults

Contact

Website: alivecounselling.com

Email: Barb@alivecounselling.com

Phone: 778-214-9582


Luke Feraco

Areas of Specialization

  • Relationship difficulties  

  • Social Anxiety

  • Communication improvement

  • Trauma  

  • Low self-esteem

  • Understanding emotions

Contact

Website: nextstepkelowna.com

Phone: 782-201-4155


Alicia Gonzalez

Areas of Specialization

  • Youth & Young Adults

  • Anxiety

  • Self-Compassion

  • Trauma

  • Shame

  • Perfectionism

  • Cultural Support and Identity

  • Academic Stress

  • Relationship issues

  • I'm also on track to complete my EMDR training in the fall of 2024.

CONTACT

Website: https://www.kelownaemdr.ca/emdr-therapist-alicia-gonzalez

Email: alicia@kelownaemdr.ca


Špela Grašič

Areas of Specialization

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Emotional regulation: everything from feeling tingly and buzzy all over (but not really sure how you "feel") to feeling so furious you think you're going to burst to feeling completely empty and detached, and everything in between

  • Relationships

  • Academic Stress

  • OCD: those annoying, embarrassing, or downright terrifying (can't ever admit that out loud) thoughts that leave you feeling stuck or having your spinning in circles trying to just make the uncomfortable feeling go away

  • Self-injury

Contact

Website: https://alivecounselling.com/team/spela-grasic/ 

Email: spela@alivecounselling.com


Sarah Harris

Areas of Specialization

  • Couples & Relationship support

  • Parenting support

  • Anxiety 

  • Depression

  • Emotional reactivity & regulation

  • Stress & burnout

Contact

Website: relateandrestore.ca

Email: sarah@relateandrestore.ca



Samantha Hellwig

Areas of Specialization

  • Self-esteem

  • Anxiety Management

  • Spirituality

CONTACT

Email: info@shpsychotherapy.ca

Phone: 705-321-9922



Kasra Hakimattar

Areas of Specialization

  • Addressing impacts of sexual and gender-based violence

  • Anger management

  • Conflict management

  • Masculinity and men's mental health

  • Relationship and interpersonal issues

Contact

Email: kasrahakimattar@gmail.com


Rachel Jones-McKinley

Areas of specialization

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) *

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Life Transitions including Separation and Divorce

  • Personality and Mood Disorders including BPD

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Parenting Support

Contact

Website: pausecounselling.net 

Email: rachel@pausecounselling.net


Kathryn Kriitmaa

Areas of Specialization

  • Stress and anxiety

  • Depression and mood disorders

  • Self-esteem and self-worth

  • Communication and healthy boundaries

  • Grief and loss

  • Relationship issues

  • Understanding trauma, rejection, and abandonment

  • How to develop a somatic sense of safety

  • Deepening embodiment

  • Intimate partner violence

Contact

Website: feltsensecounselling.com

Email: kathryn@feltsensecounselling.com


Kyle Loney

Areas of Specialization

  • Addiction.

  • OCD, Identity.

  • Self-Relationship.

Contact

Website: anotherchapter.ca/

Email: kylejamescounselling@gmail.com


Madi Maitz

Areas of Specialization

  • Anxiety

  • Academic stress

  • Stress & burnout 

  • Emotional regulation and mood management 

  • Trauma 

  • Relationship issues

  • Life transitions 

  • Sports psychology/ mental performance counselling

Contact

Website: www.mindmovementtherapy.com

Email: madi@mindmovementtherapy.com 


Shay Manerikar

(they/them)

Areas of Specialization

  • Sexual violence 

  • Trauma 

  • Gender and sexual identity 

  • Racial identity 

  • Gender-affirming hormone recommendation letters (19+) 

  • Accepts FNHA + CVAP 

Contact

Website: cedarmooncounselling.com 

Email: shay@cedarmooncounselling.com


Paige Mathison

Areas of Specialization

  • Healthcare Professionals

  • Trauma & Transitions

  • Strengthen Quality of Life

Contact

Website: anotherchapter.ca

Email: info@anotherchapter.ca


Audree McIvor

Areas of Specialization

  • Trauma

  • Mindfulness

  • Boundaries and self-esteem

  • Parenting

  • Anxiety and depression

  • Creative therapies

Contact

Website: momentouscounselling.ca

Email: audree@momentouscounselling.ca


Alex McIvor

Areas of Specialization

  • Addictions

  • Men's mental health

  • Relationship & Intimacy

  • EFT

  • Grief

  • Self-compassion

  • Coping strategies and stress-management

  • Anxiety and depression

Contact

Website: momentouscounselling.ca

Email: alex@momentouscounselling.ca

Phone: 778-801-5550


Lauren Mills

Areas of Specialization

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • ADHD and ASD

  • Athletes and coaches

  • EMDR

  • Youth and University

CONTACT

Website: alivecounselling.com/team/lauren-mills/ 
Email: Lauren@alivecounselling.com


Lauren Nutbrown

Areas of Specialization

  • Eating Disorders

  • OCD

  • ADHD

Contact

Website: anotherchapter.ca/

Email: Lauren@AnotherChapter.ca


Sharlene O’reilly

Areas of Specialization

  • career or life transitions

  • traumatic events

  • anxiety/stress

  • relationships

  • loneliness/belonging

  • identity development

Contact

Website: sharleneoreilly.com

Email: sharlene@sharleneoreilly.com

Phone: 778-503-0513


Natasha Roblesky

Areas of Specialization

  • ADHD

  • Anxiety (Generalized, Social, Separation and OCD)

  • Depression and low mood 

  • Life transitions 

  • Self-esteem and Perfectionism  

Contact

Website: silacounselling.com

Email: natasha@silacounselling.com


Josie Ruoss

Areas of Specialization

  • Expressive Art Therapy  

  • Grief

  • Emotional Regulation & Stress Management

  • Depression & Anxiety

  • Sleep & Insomnia

  • Self Harm

Contact

Website: nextstepkelowna.com

Email: josieruoss@gmail.com


Alex Sadlowski

Areas of Specialization

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Relationships (Families, Friends, Romantic Partners)

  • Substance Use and Process Addictions

Contact

Website: alexmatthew.ca

Email: alexmatthewcounselling@gmail.com


Kate Schouten

Areas of Specialization

  • Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

  • Youth issues (school, bullying, anxiety)

  • Identity and self-esteem

  • Life skills

  • Transitions

  • Supervision of therapists

Contact

Website: nextstepkelowna.com

Email: kate.nextstep@gmail.com

Phone: 250-808-5283


Rachael Spyker

Areas of Specialization

  • Trauma therapy

  • Integrative Therapy

  • Group Therapy

Contact

Website: alchemycounselling.ca/

Email: rachael@alchemycounselling.ca

Phone: 250-981-4837


Sarah Trevitt

Areas of Specialization

  • Couples as well as adults and adolescents experiencing challenges with relationships

  • Anxiety

  • Perfectionism

  • Self-esteem

  • Eating disorders and disordered eating behaviours.

Contact

Website: https://nextstepkelowna.com

Email: sarahtrevcounselling@gmail.com


Bronwyn von Niessen

Areas of Specialization

  • LENS Neurofeedback 

  • Nervous System Regulation

  • Nightmare Therapy (PTSD)

  • Hypnotherapy

Contact

Website: https://www.innerbalancepsychotherapy.ca/

Email: innerbalancecontact@gmail.com


Jocelyn Watson

Areas of Specialization

  • Chronic Illness/Pain

  • Family Conflict

  • Relationship with Body/Food

  • Religious Trauma

  • Survivors of Violence

  • Tinnitus

  • Trauma

Contact

Website: nextstepkelowna.com

Email: jocelyn.counselling@gmail.com


Sarah Weissmeyer

Areas of Specialization

  • Insecurity in Relationships

  • Self-esteem and Self-worth

  • Anxiety/ Panic

  • Trauma

  • EMDR

Contact

Website: momentouscounselling.ca

Email: sarah@momentouscounselling.ca


Alisha Wozny

Areas of Specialization

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Trauma

  • Grief

  • Phobias

  • Addictions

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Suicide

  • Life Transitions/Stress

  • Identity and Self-esteem

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)

  • Narrative Therapy (NT)

Contact

Website: https://nextstepkelowna.com/our-counsellors/

Email: alishawoznycounselling@gmail.com


Justin Yuen

Areas of Specialization

  • Racial identity

  • Disordered Eating

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Trauma

Contact

Website: relateandrestore.ca

Email: justin@relateandrestore.ca