Dr. Julie Bass is a clinical psychologist providing individual psychotherapy across the lifespan. She has extensive clinical training and practice in both France and the United States. Dr. Bass’s personal life story informs her understanding of the profound impact of cultural transitions and identity on mental health. She maintains a culturally humble and trauma-informed approach to therapy.

Rooted in a psychodynamic framework, Dr. Bass explores the complexities of each client’s life story, examining how past relationships shape present experiences. Tailoring her approach to each client’s history and goals, she fosters growth with a warm and engaging style. Dr. Bass helps children express emotions and work through challenges through play. She collaborates with caregivers and schools to provide comprehensive support.

Dr. Bass provides services in both French and English.

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Dr. Bell is not accepting new therapy clients at this time, but is offering Section 211 assessments

Dr. Bell is a registered psychologist who has been dedicated to empowering children and parents for over 20 years. Dr. Bell’s work includes providing therapy to individuals, families, and parents as well as assessments. She has a background working with children and adults who have histories of trauma. These clients have come to Dr. Bell with a wide background of experiences, for example: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and foster care.

Dr. Bell has specialized training in the area of Infant Mental Health. Dr. Bell has been trained in wide range of approaches in this area, including Circle of Security, She is able to provide clinical service to families as well as supervision and training to professionals. This work focuses on the early relationships between parent and caregiver, as well as in depth understanding of early development. She takes great joy in working with the relationships between infants (ages 0-5 years) and their caregivers and seeing the transformation of little ones’ behaviour as their caregiver gains confidence and understanding.

In addition, Dr. Bell works with clients living with anxiety, depression, behavioural challenges, and family roadblocks to healthy relationships. Dr. Bell brings an attachment lens to all she does. This means that, in both therapy and assessment, Dr. Bell pays attention to the relationships in a person’s life and how those relationships may be impacting how they are feeling. Dr. Bell has extensive training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, attachment-based therapies, Gordon Neufeld’s approach and play therapy. Dr. Bell tailors her approach to each individual according to client needs, situation and current research.

Dr. Bell is pleased to offer full psychoeducational assessments for children, youth and adults, providing comprehensive reports that take into account the essence of the person beyond what is found in the school setting. Dr. Bell believes in assessments that go beyond reporting test scores, but to reflect the circumstances and characteristics of the person assessed. These assessments are used in all different contexts: Learning Disability Diagnosis; Giftedness; University Admission; Private School Admission; IQ Testing.

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Claudia Georgescu is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in the province of British Columbia and she holds Masters degrees in both Clinical Counselling and Clinical Psychology. Claudia specializes in providing evidence-based therapy for the management of various mental health concerns. She is able to provide both cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioural therapy (DBT). In her clinical practice, she enjoys working with children, adolescents and young adults with anxiety-related disorders (including generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, panic disorder, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorders), depression and eating disorders. She can also provide skills training in a variety of areas including anger management, problem solving, parenting and emotional dysregulation.

Claudia works collaboratively with clients to develop personalized treatment plans that address their unique challenges and goals. Her focus is helping each client cope more effectively and improve their functioning so that they can live a meaningful and fulfilling life.

Claudia is fluent in Romanian.

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Lorraine Ng is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC. She has experience providing individual and family counselling to adolescents, immigrant families, cultural minorities, parents, and caregivers.

She works with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, stress management, relationship difficulties and parenting issues, and other life changes. Her practice is grounded in Adlerian Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness-based work, attachment-focused approach, trauma-informed practice, and multicultural framework.

Lorraine is warm, compassionate, and insightful in her work. She strives to provide a safe environment for clients to deepen their understanding of themselves and rediscover their inner strengths. She also helps clients to develop practical, healthy coping skills and tools to face their current struggles. She hopes that clients will become empowered and encouraged to create meaningful changes in their lives.

In addition, having grown up in a blend of traditional collectivist culture and mainstream western philosophy, Lorraine has a deep understanding of the struggles and challenges individuals and families face dealing with cultural differences and to approach them in a non-judgmental and understanding way. When working with immigrant parents, Lorraine is the bridge for parents who have difficulties in understanding and connecting to their second-generation children who grow up in the individualistic culture. She is pleased to provide services in Cantonese and Mandarin for individuals and families of Chinese descent.

吳嘉敏是一位卑詩省心理輔導協會的註冊臨床心理輔導員 ，又稱作心理諮詢師。她擁有為青少年、移民人士、少數民族、父母及照顧者提供個人和家庭諮詢的專業經驗。

她的輔導服務範圍包括抑鬱、焦慮、壓力管理、親子／家庭關係、移民／留學或職業輔導等人生轉折所帶來的問題。她採用阿德勒治療法、認知行為療法和靜觀療法，並基於依附理論、創傷知情和多元文化框架為基礎。

嘉敏是一位富有熱情、同情心及洞察力的輔導員。她致力為客人提供一個安全的環境，幫助客人加深對自己的了解，重新發現內在的長處，並開發實用的健康應對機制來應對當前的困境。 她渴望客人能在迷霧中亦能重拾勇氣和自我去克服生活挑戰，並與自己和他人建立有意義的聯繫。

此外，嘉敏在中西文化融合背景下成長，對個人和家庭面對文化差異所面臨的挑戰有深刻的了解，並以能夠以一種非判斷性的態度去理解和應對文化差異所帶來的問題。在與移民家庭工作的時候，嘉敏能成為父母及第二代孩子之間的橋樑， 讓父母和在個人主義文化中成長的孩子建立更健康的聯繫。她非常熱心為華裔個人和家庭提供廣東話及普通話服務。

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Dr. Rempel is a registered psychologist who provides psychoeducational assessments for individuals of all ages, and individual therapy for adolescents and adults. Dr. Rempel is passionate about helping clients heal from trauma and has a particular interest in working with anxiety, depression, and attachment issues.

Dr. Rempel draws from a variety of clinical approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), motivational interviewing, and mindfulness, and takes a client-centred stance across all of his work. Dr. Rempel strives to create a secure base from which his clients can fulfill their emotional and support needs. He believes in accepting clients at their developmental stage and nurturing the personal strengths, values, and inner coping skills they already possess. Dr. Rempel completed his training in clinical psychology at Adler University. His research focused on reviewing evidence for music therapy with adolescents.

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Dr. Su is a registered psychologist who has been providing services to children, adolescents and their families for over 7 years. She has a background in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical behavioural Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, and Narrative therapy techniques. She has successfully helped youth who struggle with anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, and addictions. Dr. Su’s therapeutic approach is eclectic and client-centred as she tailors her approach based on each client’s needs and interpersonal styles. She is pleased to be expanding her practice to include attachment-based approaches.

In addition to her therapeutic work, Dr. Su also conducts comprehensive psycho-educational and psycho-diagnostic assessments for children, adolescents, and adults. Dr. Su has extensive experience in diagnosing learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, ADHD, and giftedness. Dr. Su takes care to identify the unique strengths within each individual and offers recommendations that build on those strengths.

Dr. Su received her training in clinical psychology at the University of Victoria and completed her residency in Calgary with Alberta Health Services. As part of her doctoral studies, Dr. Su focused her research on examining the dynamics within immigrant Chinese families and has co-authored research papers and book chapters on how immigrant parents can support their children’s cultural and psychological adjustment after immigration. She is pleased to offer services in Mandarin-Chinese for individuals and families of Chinese descent.

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Leora has accumulated extensive experience working with students over the past 20 years. Her journey began as a classroom teacher, eventually transitioning into a special education role, and currently serving as a licensed school psychologist within the school system and as an assessment clinician. Leora’s educational background includes bachelor’s degrees in psychology and education, a diploma in special education, and a master’s degree in school and applied child psychology. Committed to a strength-based approach, Leora brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to work with students.

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Welcome to Sand Story! I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Masters in Counselling Psychology from UBC. I work with clients who may be struggling with past or recent trauma, attachment injuries, relationship challenges, or anxiety and depression. I also provide parenting/care-giver support and education and work with co-parents who do not live together.

Within a relational, developmental and trauma informed framework I strive to provide a safe and welcoming space to explore the past, manage the present and envision the future. While I draw from training in evidence-based counselling models and my own lived experience, our work together will always be collaborative and honour you as the expert in your own unique life journey. Together we will work to help you live your natural state of growth and thriving.

I work with adults, youth, children, couples and families. My areas of speciality are Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for trauma, relational patterns and attachment injuries; Child-Centred Play Therapy; parenting support and education; CBT and mindfulness based therapies for anxiety and depression.

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Colleen Wittig obtained her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia and has been practicing as a counsellor since 2001. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (registration #2306). She has worked in various settings with children, youth, adults, and families including Vancouver Coastal Health Eating Disorders Program, Child and Youth Mental Health, Fraser Health Authority and Family Services of Greater Vancouver. She has worked in both public health care and private practice settings with a wide range of clients.

Colleen’s treatment philosophy focuses on empowering clients to lead a meaningful and fulfilling life by supporting them to work through issues and draw on their individual strengths. Through a compassionate lens, she works with clients to develop skills and guides them to bring awareness and insight into their emotions and life experiences.

Colleen has training in Solution-Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Self-Compassion and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

She uses creative approaches to incorporate therapeutic techniques into her practice. She has worked extensively with clients struggling with eating disorders, self-esteem issues, anxiety, and depression. Additionally, she has extensive experience leading workshops and groups, and with children and youth.

Colleen’s approach is one of warmth, compassion, and unconditional acceptance. Her non-judgemental stance fosters safety and trust. She is very passionate about supporting clients to thrive and meets the unique needs of each client.

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