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Please note that Amanda’s fees will increase to $155 from January 1st.

My work centres on helping people deepen their relationship with themselves and thereby create more authentic, connected relationships with others. Many of the folks I work with are carrying the impact of painful relational experiences—sometimes from childhood, and sometimes from the stress of being in spaces where they haven’t felt seen, safe, or accepted. Together, we gently untangle those wounds and build a sense of inner trust and safety, which I see as foundations for intimacy, self-expression, and belonging.

I also believe that insight alone isn’t always enough to create change. We can name a pattern, analyse it, and understand where it comes from—and still feel stuck. When we’ve been overwhelmed or hurt, it’s natural to retreat into our minds for safety. However, healing doesn’t always happen through thinking alone – often, we have to feel our way out. That’s why I support people in going beyond talking about their experiences and into processing and working through them. By practising being with our feelings as they arise—through presence, embodiment, and compassion—we access deeper layers of awareness where real transformation happens. I believe this kind of integration allows us to not only understand ourselves more fully, but live with more ease—rooted, connected, and free.

To support this kind of deep, embodied healing, I use an integrative approach and draw from Internal Family Systems, attachment theory, somatics, and intersectional feminism. These ways of working help us get to know the parts of you that need attention and acknowledge all the creative ways you have coped with struggle. They enable an exploration of how your identities and lived experiences influence the way you relate to yourself and others. Together, we’ll gently make space for what’s showing up in the present moment, including what your body might be holding, so that the shifts you want to see can happen not just in your mind, but throughout your whole system.

When I work with couples, I also draw on Relational Life Therapy. This direct and practical approach supports partners in shifting out of stuck patterns and moving toward greater closeness, accountability, and care.

I’ve always been drawn to the quieter layers beneath what we show to the world – to the places where grief, resistance, and tenderness live. My healing has meant recognising the echoes of old wounds in the present – and coming home to myself, again and again, through guidance, practice, and getting in touch with the quiet wisdom of my body. It was through this process that I came to understand healing as something lived and felt, not just understood – and it deeply informs the way I practice.

Some other things you might want to know about me are that prior to practicing therapy, I spent six years supporting women, trans, non-binary, and genderqueer survivors of sexual violence at a local rape crisis centre committed to justice-doing and anti-oppressive practice. I am a white, cis-gendered, queer, able-bodied, third-generation settler living on the stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. I approach all my work with thoughtfulness regarding social and cultural contexts, paying close attention to how access to power and privilege shapes relationships.

I love to read, write, dance, and lose track of time in meaningful conversation. I care deeplyabout relationships where we can show up as we are and the messiness and beauty of what it means to be alive.

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My Approach to Therapy

As a counsellor, I help connect you with your own inborn strength and resiliency. My approach is rooted in compassion and in a deep faith in the healing that happens when we feel seen and validated. Years of yoga and mindfulness practice influence my approach to counselling, and I try to make counselling an embodied experience because I believe change happens when we are fully present in our experience. In working with me, you will find that I focus on fostering the capacity to be emotionally regulated and present with experience. I see counselling as a context where we can learn to have faith in our capacity to handle what arises within our lives and within ourselves. As we practice meeting each moment with our whole human selves, we learn more about what matters to us, and it can become easier to move forward in ways that align with what we truly value.

Theories Influencing My Approach

I am particularly influenced by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), which balances letting go of resistance to the difficult experiences of our lives with taking action to bring about the changes we desire in our lives. I also pull on the theory of Internal Family Systems (IFS), which beautifully holds space for the complexity of being human. I have done training in Relational Life Therapy (RLT), which emphasizes developing relational skills to build meaningful connections, and I also work with ideas from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which focuses on developing strong emotional bonds. Broadly, I am influenced by Attachment Theory, which explores how our early relationships with caregivers impact the unfolding of our lives and generally takes an embodied and relational approach. My master’s thesis focuses on understanding the lived experience of chronic pain recovery from a relational lens and aims to challenge more common individualistic perspectives on recovery.

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Who I work with

Individuals, couples, friends, and adults. Polycules, couples, play partners, and all manner of connections.

Anyone who is scared of losing the people or person they feel closest to, yet struggles to stay connected with them. People come to see me when they are questioning their discernment in their relationships. Questions like, “Is this struggle because I’m being difficult or because they are?” and “Should I be able to handle this better than I am?”

You may want to bring your partner(s) into therapy with you to work through tricky agreements and repair misunderstandings. Sometimes it can feel hard to have a conversation, and avoiding it is causing even more distress.

Maybe you’re realizing your family or friends aren’t as supportive as you wanted, and you’d like to figure out how close you want to be now. With me, you can practice those conversations before you need to set hard limits that feel like being the “bad guy” and perhaps learn what boundaries you’d been missing all along.

How I work

I use the first session to get as much information as I can from everyone in the room. You know your relationship best. Being in the room is making an effort, and I honor that. I want to know what makes it hard to be on the same team about whatever issue is present.

Everyone comes in with their own experiential histories, families and cultures of origin, and beliefs on how to be in relationship. I want to get everyone in the room as much of what they want as they can get. And sometimes we do learn that it isn’t going to be gotten in this relationship. That doesn’t necessarily end the connection. I support staying in good relations through whatever changes happen by working directly with each person.

Things about me

As a white, able-bodied, non-binary person, I am constantly investigating my privileges and ways of being. I am a 5th-generation settler and a 1st-generation immigrant to so-called Canada. I am bisexual, polyamorous, and have been partnered for over 20 years. I have travelled extensively throughout my life and enjoy cultural differences.

As a couples therapist, I believe my work supports the wider cultural need for human connections and inclusion, especially with difference. I am a kink, non-monogamy, and trans enthusiast.

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Neora brings over 20 years of experience, working as a trauma therapist and social worker (MSW). I am a grounded, intuitive, and deeply thoughtful person. I am committed to ongoing healing and authentic connection. As a seasoned therapist, I bring warmth, intelligence, and a dedication to my work. I sense the undercurrents of individuals, families and society. As you and I work together, we will build a space where you can slow down, feel, reflect, and remember what matters to you.

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