Youth & Adult Counselling ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Life Transitions North Vancouver

Sasha provides structured, compassionate counselling for youth and adults who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She specializes in supporting ADHD, autism, learning differences, anxiety, and life transitions, with a strong focus on helping clients build practical skills that create real change.

Her approach is evidence-based and goal-oriented, integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, and narrative therapy within a trauma-informed framework. Clients working with Sasha can expect clear strategies to manage anxiety, improve emotional regulation, navigate school or workplace stress, and build confidence in daily life.

With over six years of experience in K–12 and post-secondary educational systems, Sasha brings specialized insight into academic challenges, accommodations, and navigating complex systems. She is particularly effective with students, young adults, and neurodivergent individuals who need both emotional support and actionable tools.

Sasha creates a calm, supportive space while also helping clients move forward with clarity and direction. Her work is especially well-suited for individuals who want practical strategies, structure, and meaningful progress—not just talk therapy.

She is currently completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and welcomes new clients at Bach Counselling Group in North Vancouver.

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Lucia Chuan, MA Counsellor Bilingual (English/Portuguese) Anxiety, Couples & Parenting — North Vancouver and virtual counselling

Lucia Chuan is a bilingual Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, working with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, postpartum adjustment, parenting challenges, couples conflict, and the particular pressures of building a life through major transition. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology with Honours and is currently completing her Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) designation.

Before entering the counselling field, Lucia spent four years running a wellness and personal development practice in São Paulo — working one-on-one with clients on goal-setting, identity, and navigating significant life transitions. Her subsequent move to Canada, combined with her work as a Certified Early Childhood Educator in North Vancouver, gave her a firsthand understanding of the experience she now works with clinically: managing multiple roles, adjusting to a new culture, and finding footing in a life that looks different from the one you planned.

Lucia’s clinical work has a particular focus on postpartum and maternal mental health, the relational adjustments that accompany new parenthood, and the anxiety and identity disruption that often accompany immigration and cultural transition. As a Brazilian immigrant and mother herself, she brings both professional training and lived understanding to this work.

Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Gottman Method principles within a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive framework. In couples work, she draws on the Gottman model to help partners identify negative cycles and build more connected communication.

Lucia sees clients at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers online counselling throughout BC. Sessions are available in English and Portuguese.

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Neelu Din, MA, CCC Trauma, Anxiety & Couples Counsellor North Vancouver and virtual counselling

Neelu Din is a bilingual Clinical Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, working with individuals, couples, youth, and families navigating trauma, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, and the complexity that arises when life’s demands outpace our capacity to manage them. She holds a Master of Arts in Applied Psychology and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association.

Neelu brings a clinical background shaped by over 15 years of practice across two countries — including rehabilitation settings working within multidisciplinary teams alongside psychiatrists, research roles investigating stress, resilience, and child development, and direct counselling with youth in educational settings. That foundation gives her a clinically grounded understanding of how trauma, family systems, and social context shape the challenges clients bring to therapy — and informs the cultural responsiveness she brings to working with diverse client populations.

Her clinical focus includes complex and developmental trauma, anxiety and depression, PTSD, couples and relationship difficulties, grief and loss, ADHD, parenting challenges, anger management, and workplace stress. For clients who recognise symptoms of dissociation — a common but rarely named consequence of unresolved trauma — Neelu works within a structured, trauma-informed framework designed to build safety and stability before deeper processing begins.

Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing, and Solution-Focused Therapy — applied through a culturally responsive, trauma-informed lens. Sessions are available in English and Hindi.

Neelu sees clients at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers online counselling throughout BC.

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Claudine Gayton, MA, RCC, CCC Registered Clinical Counsellor Couples, Anxiety & Life Transitions — North Vancouver and virtual counselling

Claudine Gayton is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, working with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and the transitions that mark the middle chapters of a demanding life. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and holds both Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) designations.

Before entering the counselling field, Claudine spent over a decade in senior roles in the corporate sector — an experience that gives her a practical, firsthand understanding of the pressures facing professionals managing demanding careers alongside relationships, parenting, and personal wellbeing. This background shapes how Claudine’s understands the particular exhaustion of high-functioning people who are managing everything on the outside while quietly struggling on the inside.

Her couple’s work draws on two of the most evidence-based frameworks in the field. She has completed Gottman Method training to Level 2 and has trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Together these approaches give her the clinical range to work with couples across the full spectrum, from those seeking to strengthen an already solid relationship to those navigating serious conflict or disconnection. Her individual work integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) within a trauma-informed, attachment-based framework.

As a mother of two teenagers, Claudine brings both professional training and personal insight to her work with parents navigating family dynamics, shifting identities, and the particular weight of midlife transitions.

Claudine completed her clinical internship at Bach Counselling Group and joined the BCG clinical team in September 2025. She sees clients at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers online counselling throughout BC.

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Dr. Shiva Hajian is a bilingual Intern Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, completing her clinical counselling training. She holds a PhD in Educational Psychology from Simon Fraser University, a Master of Science in Biological Sciences, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of British Columbia. Following her doctorate, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at SFU and has taught psychology at the university level — building a career focused on how cognitive and psychological processes shape learning, performance, and wellbeing.

Following her doctorate, Dr. Hajian completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Educational Psychology at SFU and has taught psychology at the university level. That research background gives her a precise understanding of how cognitive and psychological processes shape performance, focus, and wellbeing.

She works with adolescents and adults navigating anxiety, perfectionism, executive functioning challenges, academic stress, and professional pressure. She also brings seven years of direct experience as an academic counsellor working with K-12 students — giving her particular fluency with the pressures facing young people in demanding educational environments.

Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) within a trauma-informed framework, with a clear emphasis on building practical regulation strategies, strengthening focus and follow-through, and developing structured approaches to problems that have resisted effort. She holds certification in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST).

Dr. Hajian works under clinical supervision at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers virtual counselling throughout BC. Sessions are available in English and Farsi.

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Aaron Henry, MA, RCC Registered Clinical Counsellor Anxiety, Perfectionism, ADHD & Couples Therapy — North & West Vancouver

Aaron Henry is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, working with adults, youth, and couples navigating anxiety, perfectionism, ADHD, recurring relationship conflict, and the particular frustration of being highly capable while remaining stuck in patterns that don’t shift. He holds a Master of Education in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, awarded with Distinction, and a PhD from the University of Toronto.

Aaron’s academic training was not in counselling — it was in the philosophy of mind, with a scholarly focus on attention, agency, and the mechanisms by which people become stuck or unable to act in ways that align with their intentions. These peer-reviewed published journals give him an unusually precise understanding of what happens cognitively and psychologically when capable people find themselves overthinking, self-critical, or caught in cycles they cannot reason their way out of. It is that understanding, brought into clinical practice, that shapes how he works.

His clinical work focuses on anxiety and chronic overthinking, perfectionism and self-imposed pressure, ADHD — particularly the gap between intention and follow-through — couples in recurring conflict, and disordered eating and self-worth. Aaron works with clients to understand what drives these patterns and to develop more effective responses, in their thinking, their behaviour, and their relationships. His approach integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and Narrative Therapy within a trauma-informed framework. In couples work, he draws on Gottman Method principles to reduce escalation and build more effective communication between partners.

Aaron sees clients at BCG’s North Vancouver and West Vancouver offices, and offers virtual counselling throughout BC.

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Anna Khokhlova, MA, RCC & CCC Anxiety, Life Transitions & Immigration — North Vancouver and virtual counselling

Anna Khokhlova is a bilingual Registered Clinical Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, working with youth, young adults, and immigrants navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, ADHD, and the particular challenges that come with building a life in a new culture. She holds a Master of Counselling, graduating with President’s Honours, and holds both Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) and Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) designations.

Anna brings firsthand understanding of the immigrant experience to her clinical work — a perspective that meaningfully deepens her capacity to work with clients navigating cultural adjustment, identity, and the losses and gains that accompany major life transitions. Her bilingual practice in English and Russian reflects both her background and her commitment to working with diverse communities.

Her clinical training reflects a deliberate focus on trauma, the body, and complex presentations. She holds certification in Trauma and the Body, completed intensive training in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, and has trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Her approach also draws on training in somatic therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Narrative Therapy — integrated within a trauma-informed, attachment-based framework. She has completed additional certification training in personality disorders and binge eating, informing her work with clients navigating complex emotional patterns and their relationship with food and body image.

Prior to joining BCG as a registered counsellor, Anna completed her clinical internship with BCG — bringing continuity of practice and a grounding in BCG’s clinical standards from the outset of her career.

Anna sees clients at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers online counselling throughout BC.

Sessions are available in English and Russian.

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Kelly Kuppers, MA, RCC Clinical Counsellor & Clinical Supervisor Anxiety, Trauma, ADHD, Addiction & Couples — North Vancouver and virtual counselling

Kelly Kuppers is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor at Bach Counselling Group, with over 15 years of clinical experience working with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, addiction, ADHD, and relationship challenges. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and has been a Registered Clinical Counsellor in good standing with the BCACC since 2011.

Before joining BCG, Kelly spent nine years in a demanding community mental health environment — providing individual counselling, leading psychoeducational and process groups, conducting clinical assessment, and supervising interns across a high-volume, high-complexity caseload spanning the full range of mental health presentations.

Kelly’s ADHD work is grounded in formal training in both adult ADHD assessment and treatment, with extensive experience administering and interpreting ADHD self-report instruments and delivering structured treatment across the adult lifespan. Her earlier background as a Special Education Assistant — working with neurodiverse students across a range of diagnoses — adds a practical dimension to her understanding of how neurodiversity shapes learning, relationships, and daily functioning.

Kelly serves as one of BCG’s senior clinical supervisors. She has also completed Sanyas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training.

Her clinical approach integrates EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Motivational Interviewing, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), the Gottman Method, and Adult Attachment — applied through a trauma-informed, strengths-based lens. She has completed additional training in the Genesis Process addiction treatment model, post-traumatic growth and resilience, and neuroplasticity in recovery.

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Ciaran McNamee, MA Cand. Intern Counsellor Anxiety, OCD & Emotional Regulation — North Vancouver and virtual counselling

Ciaran McNamee is an Intern Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, completing his Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. He works with adults and young adults navigating anxiety, OCD, emotional regulation, existential concerns, and patterns that persist despite genuine effort to change them.

Before entering the counselling field, Ciaran spent a decade working as a data scientist and software engineer. He holds a Master of Science in Computational Physics and a Bachelor of Science in Theoretical Physics with Honours from Trinity College Dublin — an academic background that reflects both the rigour he brings to complex problems and the analytical precision he applies to his clinical work.

His clinical training integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Narrative Therapy, and an existential orientation, applied within a somatic-informed, trauma-aware framework. Somatic-informed practice means attending to how emotions and stress are held in the body — working with physical sensation and nervous system responses alongside thought and behaviour. He holds certification in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST). Prior to joining BCG, Ciaran founded and facilitated an experiential counselling group for two years, developing practical group facilitation skills alongside his clinical training. He brings lived experience of OCD recovery to his work, informing both his clinical approach and his conviction that change is genuinely possible in patterns that have resisted effort for years.

Ciaran is completing his internship at Bach Counselling Group in North Vancouver.

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Teen & Family Counselling, Sleep Concerns, Perimenopause Support – North Vancouver

Heidi Wassersleben is an Intern Counsellor at Bach Counselling Group, completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. She works with adolescents, families, and women navigating anxiety, emotional dysregulation, sleep difficulties, perimenopause, and reproductive health transitions. Earlier in her career, Heidi worked in child and youth mental health across residential and community settings — delivering individual and group counselling, providing crisis intervention and safety planning, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams including social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists. Before returning to graduate study, Heidi spent over a decade in senior corporate and human resources leadership — managing teams, advocating for employee mental health and psychological safety, and developing workplace programs. That experience gives her a practical understanding of the pressures facing professionals managing demanding careers alongside relationships, family, and the physical and emotional transitions of midlife.

Her clinical work with adolescents and families focuses on anxiety, school-related stress, and emotional regulation — supporting teens and their families in building better communication and more sustainable coping strategies at home and in academic settings. Her women’s health focus includes perimenopause, infertility, perinatal loss, and the identity shifts that accompany reproductive transitions. She also supports clients navigating anxiety-related sleep concerns and grief.

Her approach integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Narrative Therapy within a trauma-informed framework. She holds certification in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) and has attended advanced training with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Gabor Maté on trauma and the body.

Heidi works under clinical supervision at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers virtual counselling throughout BC.

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