We direct bill counselling services to Pacific Blue Cross, GreenShield, Canada Life & Sun Life! For a full list of direct billing providers, click here.
We direct bill counselling services to Pacific Blue Cross, GreenShield, Canada Life & Sun Life! For a full list of direct billing providers, click here.
Welcome To Venturous Counselling & Consulting!
Nurture your inner work with our collective healing initiatives or work with one of our individual practitioners through culturally responsive, context-aware, intersectional therapy as you build your support network.
We also believe there’s more to healing than therapy alone. Aside from our free resources we’re also on a mission to bring community back into mental health.
You always get the best of us because we support each other in community, in unlearning oppressive systems, with continual therapeutic training AND we also redirect resources to foster communities’ innate capacity for transformation.
When you access support with us, you’re joining in on something bigger. We want to thoroughly disrupt the industry that roots problems solely within you while making social responsibility optional for practitioners. It’s fundamental to our work, not an afterthought.
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Work with Parveen if you want a space where you can say the thing you’ve been editing in your head, and you want help meeting it with honesty and self-compassion.
Parveen works well with people who appreciate direct conversation, but also need a therapist who understands how much care it takes to be honest with yourself. Sessions often move between art, body awareness, and everyday life, including pop culture and whatever you’re watching lately. If a Netflix reference helps something land more gently, it’s welcome. If a question needs to be asked plainly, she’ll ask it — with care for how it lands.
This is a space where curiosity and compassion come first, and where challenge is used to help you understand yourself more clearly, not to push you harder than you’re ready for.
This is not therapy that avoids difficult topics, rushes insight, or mistakes self-criticism for growth. Parveen works with adults through individual sessions.
Work with Julianna if you’ve spent a lot of your life translating yourself between cultures, roles, or worlds (D&D anyone?), and you want room to think out loud without flattening the complexity.
Julianna often works with clients exploring bicultural identity, belonging, and self-definition. Her sessions draw on art therapy, walk & talk, and narrative practice, and tend to suit people who make sense of their lives through stories, patterns, and shared reference points.
This work pays attention to the roles you’ve inherited, the ones you’ve outgrown, and the ones you’re still choosing, without rushing that process or forcing it into neat conclusions.
This is not therapy that strips context, pushes tidy answers, or insists everything be translated into clinical language. Julianna works with youth + adults, individually and through relationship counselling.
Work with Sarada if you’re worn down, emotionally overloaded, or disconnected from yourself, and you want support that feels gentle and spacious, without being passive.
Sarada works with adults and relationships who need room to slow down and listen to what their body and inner life are already doing. Her sessions draw on art, play, and somatic work, and often include thoughtful challenges that help loosen patterns without pushing you past your limits.
This work pays attention to burnout, grief, anxiety, and life transitions, while staying aware of how culture, power, and expectation shape what people carry.
This is not therapy that confuses gentleness with avoidance or leaves everything exactly where it started. Sarada works with adults, individually and through relationship counselling.
Work with Jess if you’ve spent a long time being told who you should be, and you’re more interested in figuring out what actually fits.
Jess works with individuals and relationships using art therapy and walk & talk approaches, grounded in queer and neurodivergent communities and ways of thinking. Sessions often suit people who think better while moving, talking side by side, or grounding conversations in shared interests and community life.
Jess brings a strong sense of connection to the work, shaped by team sports (rugby especially), queer community, and showing up with others over time. Therapy here is less about self-improvement and more about finding ways to live that don’t require constant self-editing.
This is not therapy that rewards conformity, sidelines difference, or treats independence as the only goal. Jess works with adults and youth through individual & relationship counselling.
Work with Abby if you’re looking for a therapist or supervisor who names power directly, asks a lot of questions, and uses humor to stay honest without pretending things aren’t hard.
Abby works primarily with therapists and practitioners who are trying to run their practices without selling their soul, while navigating ethical tension and the personal cost of working inside capitalist and colonial systems they don’t fully agree with. Many people she works with are carrying grief: grief about the world as it is, about lives and careers that haven’t unfolded as imagined, about how to stay in relationship across difference, or are moving forward from relationships that were loving and harmful at the same time.
Sessions tend to hold seriousness and levity side by side. There’s space to be blunt, to ask questions that don’t have immediate answers, and to sort through what actually matters enough to act on. Abby often helps distill big ideas, political analysis, and clinical theory into practical next steps.
This is not therapy or supervision that avoids politics, prioritizes neutrality, or asks you to feel better at the expense of being honest. Abby works with practitioners + businesses through clinical supervision and business consulting, and adults through individual and relationship counselling.
Work with Venturous if you want therapy that takes context seriously and doesn’t ask you to separate your mental health from the world you’re living in.
Venturous is a queer- and BIPOC-led collective of Registered Clinical Counsellors supporting adults, relationships, and families across BC. Our clinicians work from shared commitments to anti-oppressive, queer- and neurodivergent-affirming care, while bringing different strengths, modalities, and styles to their work.
Care at Venturous is grounded, relational, and practical. Sessions may draw on somatic, art-based, play-based, narrative, EMDR, or nature-based approaches depending on who you’re working with. Clients are matched based on fit with attention to how identity, power, and lived experience shape both distress and healing.
This is not therapy that treats suffering as apolitical, individualizes systemic harm, or asks you to adapt endlessly to what’s hurting you.
You exist in context, so it only makes sense that the problems you experience do too. Unfortunately, psychology commonly disregards this context and places the issue solely within you. But isn’t life already hard enough? Do you really need to take on MORE blame and shame for things that are not yours to carry?
“Venturous” means bold, daring, audacious, and enterprising. It represents the spirit of tenacity and the rebelliousness of thought required to speak truth to power both systemically and intrapersonally. Our commitment is to help you uproot the internalized beliefs that act as life support to the problems you experience; to support you in uncovering your ability to choose your story and build the world you want.
Let’s rebelliously subscribe to a different narrative.
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occupying the stolen, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples. Our relationship with these lands dictates our commitment to understanding and responding to the ongoing impacts of colonization in our practices in and out of the counselling room.
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