Hello, my name is Mikayla. I am a Practicum Student Counsellor at Heartspace Counselling and Art Therapy, currently completing the Professional Counsellor Diploma program at Rhodes Wellness College.

I believe counselling can offer a gentle space to explore what feels difficult to carry alone. My hope is to create a warm, compassionate, and nonjudgmental environment where clients can feel seen, supported, and met at their own pace. I am drawn to counselling that honours the whole person — thoughts, emotions, body, relationships, identity, culture, and lived experience.

I am especially interested in working with youth (12+), young adults, and caregivers around emotional regulation, ADHD/neurodivergence, anxiety, self-worth, identity, life transitions, interpersonal relationships, and family or caregiver dynamics. I am also passionate about supporting clients in building language for their inner experiences, noticing body cues, and developing tools that feel realistic and supportive in everyday life.

My approach is client-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and collaborative. Depending on the client’s needs and comfort, our work together may include talk therapy, psychoeducation, mindfulness, CBT or DBT-informed tools, somatic-oriented practices, Narrative Therapy, and creative or expressive activities.

As a practicum student, I am learning and growing under supervision. I value feedback and believe counselling works best when clients feel empowered to share what they need, what feels helpful, and what does not. My intention is to walk alongside clients with care, curiosity, and respect as they move toward greater self-understanding, emotional steadiness, and connection.

Outside of the therapy space, I enjoy yoga, Pilates, walking, creative projects, exploring new ideas, and spending time with people and places that help me feel grounded.

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Hello, my name is Rachel. I am a Registered Social Worker (#17803), and a Therapeutic Arts Practitioner. I am currently completing my Master of Social Work at the University of Northern British Columbia, and undergoing a supervised practicum as a Counsellor Intern at Heartspace Counselling and Art Therapy.

My previous experience includes 8 years in crisis intervention and suicide prevention, where I had the privilege of offering peer support to community members who trusted me with their stories. I especially enjoyed providing mental health education to children and youth through workshops on emotional regulation and suicide prevention. This work shaped me as a listener and deeply influenced my approach to counselling.

I integrate art and play therapy to support children, youth, and young adults experiencing struggles such as anxiety and depression, emotional regulation, self-esteem, interpersonal relationships, and life transitions. While I welcome a wide range of experiences, I am particularly passionate about supporting those navigating loss and grief. I understand loss as a self-defined experience- anything that disrupts connection, identity, or a sense of normalcy, whether it involves a person, pet, relationship, place, dream, career, home, or health. I believe expressive therapies offer a creative and imaginative way to release emotions that may be difficult to put into words.

I align with a client-led, emotion-focused, and strength-based approach. I aim to meet each person where they are, support emotional expression, build coping strategies, empower unique strengths, and co-create a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship.

As a Master’s Level student, I view counselling as a mutual process of learning and growing, and I encourage open dialogue about your hopes and needs so we can shape and adapt the work together.

In my personal life, I value nature as a grounding tool and connection to self-care. Growing up in Northern BC, I feel most at peace when hiking, camping, or touching trees, flowers, or water. When indoors, I express my own creativity through art, writing, music, and experimenting with baking or cooking.

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Stephanie Ng (she/her) is a culturally sensitive Registered Clinical Counsellor, Registered Art Therapist, and Certified Play Therapist. She is second-generation Canadian-Chinese (Hong Kong) and speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Stephanie specializes in working with anxiety, stress/burnout, trauma, self-esteem, perfectionism, imposter syndrome, creative blocks, family concerns, interpersonal issues and relationship challenges.

Stephanie is neurodiversity affirming, and has experience working with children (3+), youths, and adults individually and in group therapy sessions.

Besides counselling, Stephanie (RCAT, CPT-S-in-training) also offers Art and Play Therapy supervision to Professional Art Therapists and Play Therapy Practitioners seeking supervised clinical hours towards registration and certification with CATA, BCATA, BCAPT, CAPT.

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