Salam, I am Laith (he/him). My path into counselling comes through education, refugee and resettlement services, and community-based care, alongside lived experience as someone from a marginalized population. I have supported refugees, diverse families, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities, including through peer support work with local healthcare providers. I am a clinical counselling practicum student therapist here, working under the close supervision of Laura Hoge, RSW.

Through this work, I have seen how much strength, creativity, and care people carry, sometimes while living through profound loss, disruption, or ongoing uncertainty. My intention is to create a space where you feel welcomed and supported, without needing to explain or translate yourself.

My counselling approach is grounded in compassion, curiosity, and cultural humility. I work relationally and collaboratively, and I hold deep respect for the ways you have learned to cope and survive. I draw from person-centred care, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused approaches, and I am integrating trauma-informed practice through my supervision with Laura.

I also bring an experiential and creative lens. Alongside conversation, I may invite reflection through imagery, metaphor, or gentle experimentation, always at your pace and with your consent. My background in sports, coaching, performance, and writing informs how I think about movement, story, and expression as pathways toward clarity and connection.

I offer low-cost counselling for adults and older teens (16+) navigating identity, relationships, resettlement, and life transitions. Sessions are available in English or Arabic.

إذا كنتَ/كنتِ تفضّل العمل مع معالج يتحدّث العربية كلغتك الأم—دون الحاجة إلى ترجمة مشاعرك أو البحث عن الكلمات—فقد يكون العمل مع اللّيث مناسبًا لك. اللّيث طالب تدريب سريري في الإرشاد النفسي في فانكوفر، ويقدّم استشارات نفسية بالعربية للبالغين والمراهقين الأكبر سنًا (16+)، ضمن مساحة دافئة وتعاونية تركّز على الأمان والاحترام والاتصال الإنساني. يستند نهجه إلى التعاطف، التواضع و الانفتاح الثقافي، مع خبرة مهنية في التعليم وخدمات اللاجئين وإعادة التّوطين والرّعاية المجتمعية. كما يحمل اللّيث خبرة معاشة كـ كندي جديد وشخص عاش تجربة اللّجوء/النّزوح، وهو أيضًا من ذوي التنوّع الجنسي والجندري—ما يمنحه حساسية خاصة لقضايا الهوية والانتماء والهجرة والضغط المتراكم من التّهميش أو فقدان الأمان. يدمج في عمله أساليب متمحورة حول الشخص، والمقابلة التّحفيزية، والنّهج المتمحور حول الحلول، مع دمج ممارسات مراعية

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I meet with clients online across Canada and the United States, in English or French. My approach is relational, experiential, and justice-centred. When something painful is present, I will not hurry you past it. I work from the trust that something in you already knows the next step, and my part is making enough room for that knowing to surface.

I am a Registered Social Worker (RSW) in British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW/LICSW) in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont. As a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, Certified Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Therapist, Certified Grief Therapist, and WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Professional Member, I draw on mindfulness, somatic work, and parts-based approaches.

I work with adults and partners navigating grief and loss, relational harm, identity, and the impacts of trauma, and I offer gender-affirming care. Parents and caregivers also come to me for support as they navigate a young person’s changing world. I provide clinical supervision and peer consultation for therapists and social workers tending to their own practice.

Before joining this practice, I spent years in community organizing, clinical research, and social work education, and I co-host The Living Practice podcast with Clayre. When you are ready, we invite you to start with a free 15-minute consultation to explore how we might work together.

I meet with clients online across Canada and the United States, in English or French. My approach... Read More

I came to psychotherapy through twenty-five years of learning to listen: first as a massage therapist and yoga teacher, then through art and communication, and finally in the therapy room, where story, sensation, and imagination meet. That path still shapes how I work. The body sets the pace, and we follow it together, without pushing.

My practice is relational and experiential, attentive to how attachment and the nervous system carry our histories. As a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, Certified Focusing Oriented Therapist, and senior facilitator for Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, I draw on art therapy, parts work, and somatic approaches to trauma, grief, and change. Some sessions are quiet conversation. Others invite image, movement, or stillness. You choose what fits, and nothing here needs to be performed.

I offer affirming care for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive adults and teens, shaped by my own life as a trans queer woman and by years of LGBTQIA+ advocacy and disability justice work. I am a Registered Psychotherapist (RP), Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), and Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC), and a WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Professional Member.

Whatever brings you, we begin with where you are, not where you think you should be. You are welcome to start with a free 15-minute consultation to see whether working together feels like a fit.

I came to psychotherapy through twenty-five years of learning to listen: first as a massage thera... Read More