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Find Your Best-Fit Therapist
Finding the right therapist is often the hardest part of starting therapy.
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Fill out our 3-minute matching form and our clinical director will personally match you with your best-fit therapist or an external referral we trust. Haven’t heard back from us within 1-3 business days? Check your spam folder!
To meet with a therapist directly, book a free consult with one of our Registered Clinical Counsellors as listed below. If you’re looking to access direct billing, make sure to let your counsellor know.
some of our favourite partnerships so far
some of our favourite partnerships so far
some of our favourite partnerships so far
some of our favourite partnerships so far
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Meet the Venturous Team
Renee Liang (she/her)
Lower Cost Counselling
Supervised by Bhupie Dulay, MA, RCC-ACS & Abby Chow, MA, RCC-ACS
Work with Renee if you think about everything deeply and carry responsibility for things that were never yours to hold. If you like to reflect, see things from a new angle, and want someone honest and steady in your corner — often with some humour when things get heavy. Renee works with reflective, insight-oriented people navigating self-doubt, cultural complexity, relational trauma, and cultural grief. Her approach is direct but not directive: she’ll say the straightforward thing, then work with you on how it actually fits, because you know yourself best. She pays attention to the systems around you, too, helping sort what’s yours to carry from what isn’t.
This is not therapy that hands you the answers, takes an expert stance, or rushes you toward quick solutions. It centres introspection over tidy conclusions, and treats healing as something that isn’t linear — there’s no shame in revisiting the same ground again.
Renee works with youth and adults through individual and relationship counselling.
Art + Somatic Psychotherapy
Parveen Boyal, MCP, RCC (she/her)
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. If anxiety about how you’re seen in the world has started running the show, or your relationship with your body feels like something you’re surviving instead of living in, Parveen offers a space to slow down, untangle those stories, and build something more compassionate in their place.
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, great. If a question needs to be asked plainly, she’ll ask it with care.
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.
Art + Walk and Talk Therapy
Julianna Lei, MCP, RCC (she/her)
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.
Art, Play + Somatic Psychotherapy
Sarada Bhagavatula, MA, RCC (she/her)
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.
There’s a kind of knowing that lives below language. In the body, in play, in the image that surfaces before the explanation arrives. If you’ve been white-knuckling your way through life and you’re starting to wonder what it would feel like to slow down without everything falling apart, Sarada’s work begins there. With curiosity, with gentleness, with the belief that creativity is how we find our way back to ourselves.
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.
EMDR, Somatic + Walk & Talk Therapy
Jess Picco, MCP, RCC (she/her)
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.
EMDR, Approved Clinical Supervisor & Clinical Director
Abby Chow, MA, RCC-ACS (she/her)
Work with Abby if you’re looking for a therapist or supervisor who names power directly, asks lots 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 folx 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.
In the Meantime
Access Free Resources
At Venturous, we are committed to providing multidisciplinary care across multiple points of access in order to remove as many barriers as possible. Part of our commitment includes this ever-growing library of free resources and recommendations for you to access when you’re in need of support.
We are uninvited settlers
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.
Learn more about the land you’re occupying at native-land.ca
