I often work alongside folks processing personal, collective, and systemic traumas. Specifically I often work with current and former youth in care, neurodivergent folks, folks navigating chronic pain/disabilities, queer/trans folks, sex workers, poly folks and topics around identity exploration.
In working alongside folks I often weave in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), somatic-attachment, art therapy, narrative therapy , trauma centred engagement and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). I see people as experts in their own lives and it is really important to me to work collaboratively alongside people and to co-create space for healing.
In my personal life, I love the woods, the ocean, making art, gardening, and animals. I am non-binary (they/them), neurodivergent, and of European and Arab Jewish background. I am decidedly Pro-Palestine and anti-genocide. I strive towards anti-oppressive, social justice oriented practices, and also recognize that this is ongoing work of listening and learning and unlearning.
I am located on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples.
Counselling Approaches
Healing Centered Engagement
Centring Anti-Oppressive Learnings
EMDR
Harm-Reduction
Coping Strategies Serve Purposes
Somatics
Art Therapy
Selected Professional Training
Foundations of Clinical Supervision- University of Ottawa
Somatic Attachment Two-Year Training
Somatics with Queer and Trans Folks
EMDR Comprehensive Training
Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) Core and Advanced Trainings
DBT Comprehensive and Advanced Trainings
Early Psychosis Intervention Certification
San'ya Cultural Competency Training
Response-Based Training
Sam's Rates
*15 min Phone Consultation: No Cost
Individual Counselling/Clinical Consultation
50 minute sessions: standard $150, sliding scale full
*75 minute sessions: standard $200, sliding scale full
*$300 per Hormone Readiness Assessment (two 40-minute sessions)
Relationship or Family Counselling:
*50 minute sessions: standard $200, sliding scale full
*75 minute sessions: standard $250, sliding scale full
(all rates include GST)
Sam can work with folks utilizing the Residential Historical Abuse Program, First Nations Health Authority funding, Crime Victims Assistance Program, and Autism Funding Unit.
