Karin Baer is a certified life coach, partner recovery coach and intimacy anorexia coach.

She is passionate about coming alongside others in their healing journey from sexual betrayal and the heartbreak that brings.

She loves helping people move from hurting to wholeness and works with individuals, couples and leads groups.

Karin Baer is a certified life coach, partner recovery coach and intimacy anorexia coach. She is... Read More

Anna specializes in working with trauma, anxiety and depression. Anna understands that autistic and/or ADHD clients may need adaptations and accommodations in counselling to have meaningful and productive experiences in therapy. She is happy to make accommodations for communication challenges and sensory needs. Anna also supports parents of autistic and/or ADHD children.

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Jackie has a passion for helping others navigate life’s challenges. With a background in education and grief counselling, she brings personal life experience and empathy to her practice. She has completed her Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology. She completed her internship with DFR in December 2024, where she continued to refine her skills and expand her knowledge. Jackie feels honoured to accompany her clients through the difficult and messy parts of life, guiding them toward a more content and purposeful existence. She strives to be authentic and Christ-centered in her work, offering compassion, understanding, and support to all those she counsels.

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Rachel Merrell is a Christian trauma therapist who works with teens (13+), adults, and couples. Utilizing body-based, emotion-focused, and research-supported approaches Rachel works with clients healing from anxiety, relational and attachment wounds, and the effects of trauma. She is passionate about helping clients feel safe in their bodies, understand their emotions, and build healthier relationships.

As a Christian counsellor, Rachel offers the option to integrate faith into therapy. She welcomes conversations around faith, identity, and healing. If clients desire she can incorporate Christian principles, prayer, and a biblical perspective into sessions

Rachel is known for her warm, compassionate, and relational approach, creating a safe space where clients can explore their story and move toward lasting healing and change.

Professional Credentials: Rachel is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (#13105), a designation of the BC clinical counsellors association (BCACC) and has completed her Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western University. Rachel has taken these additional trainings and approaches:

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• Observed Experiential Integration (OEI)
• Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART)
• Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
• Emotion Focused Therapy
• Gottman Couples Therapy
• Compassionate Inquiry

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Brendan is excited to finally be working on his counselling practicum. For over a decade, he’s been building experience in the neurodiversity field through respite, as an education assistant, and volunteering as a co-lead in a number of social groups. Before joining the counselling field, he was looking to become a teacher and has experience working in schools and leading youth events.

He’s passionate about working with neurodiverse populations and hopes to expand his experience and skills to work with parents of children and youth with neurodiversity and disabilities. This includes working with Dads, Moms and single parents to help them make the most of their lives. He strongly believes that every human being is wonderfully made and strives to provide counselling support to clients to help them thrive.

Brendan primarily uses CBT, solution-focused and narrative therapy with his clients and rejoices with them in their successes and triumphs. He looks forward to working with you.

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