Emily Bostrom, MNTCW, RCC

As a Narrative therapist, Emily sees you as the expert of your own life. She believes you know your stories best and how your experiences have impacted you. Together you explore your stories, strengths, and values, illuminating strong stories that already exist. She is here to witness your stories, be curious, and deeply listen so you can be safely heard. In these therapeutic conversations, there are no assumptions, no labels, no categories. As we revise old stories we make less room for fear and failure and more room for new versions of stories to emerge. Emily is often listening for what you cannot accept and what you have resisted, as this can show what you value, what you protect, and what you are fighting for. Emily is passionate about relationships. This includes our relationships with ourselves, with culture and society, and our relationships with the intangible things – like our relationship with anger. She understands how our stories are so relational as well as fluid and ever-evolving. Emily continually seeks to take a wider view of a situation and explore the influences of culture and community on the challenges we face. Emily holds a Masters degree in Narrative Therapy and Community Work. She has worked in the mental health field for 19 years. A big part of her practice is offering narrative letter at the end of sessions reflecting on the conversation and to offer springboards to further therapeutic benefits. Emily is a registered clinical counsellor.

Emily offers virtual appointments with some in-person availability at our Salmon Arm location

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Chloe’s worldview is rooted in dignity, empathy, genuine connection, and curiosity. She embraces the belief that we are always evolving and feels honoured to sit with others during their most vulnerable moments, fostering trust and safety in each interaction.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and has completed her Master’s in Counselling Psychology. Chloe is deeply passionate about serving others and brings over a decade of experience in mental health and social justice roles. Her counselling approach is grounded in warmth, compassion, and lively energy, with a profound appreciation for relationships as a foundation for growth and healing.

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Individuals / Couples / Families / EMDR / OEI / Attachment-Focused Counselling

Desiree Raposo is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Canadian Certified Counsellor with a Master of Counselling degree. She works with individuals, couples, and families, offering a warm, curious, and holistic approach to therapy. Desiree recognizes that reaching out for support can feel like a significant step and prioritizes creating a space where clients feel comfortable, understood, and accepted.

Desiree practices from a trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and mind-body perspective. Her work considers how our experiences, emotions, and relationships shape the ways we learn to navigate and respond to the world around us. She helps clients understand long-standing patterns with compassion and curiosity while finding new ways of responding that feel more supportive and aligned with how they want to live.

Before becoming a counsellor, Desiree spent many years working in massage therapy and yoga. This background strengthened her appreciation for the connection between the body, emotions, and nervous system. She integrates somatic awareness and nervous-system-informed practices alongside talk therapy, depending on what feels most supportive for each client. Her clinical work is informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT/EFIT), EMDR, Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed parts work, and mindfulness-based approaches.

Desiree has a particular interest in working with trauma, attachment, and relationships, while also supporting clients through a range of emotional and personal challenges. Her work often involves exploring patterns such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-criticism, difficulty setting boundaries, and recurring challenges in relationships.

Outside of her counselling work, Desiree lives in the small community of Malakwa in the Shuswap, where she feels most at home in the mountains and forests. She spends her free time mountain biking, snowboarding, practising yoga, and exploring creative pursuits. These parts of her life have shaped her appreciation for slowing down, reconnecting with herself, and finding her own way forward.

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Couples / Families / Clinical Supervision / Assessments / Views of the Child Reports

Shannon is the founder and Clinical Director of Currents Counselling, where she leverages over a decade of post-masters experience to support couples and families. With a deep understanding of relationship dynamics, she has worked extensively with highly conflicted couples, those navigating separation and divorce, and families facing complex issues. Her background includes addressing concerns related to violence and conducting clinical risk assessments.

Recognizing that each relationship is unique, Shannon employs a collaborative approach tailored to the specific needs of the couples and families she serves. This emphasis on individualization allows her to provide effective support and facilitate healing in her client’s most important relationships.

In addition to her direct counselling services, Shannon is certified to complete risk assessments and Section 211 Reports, such as Hear the Child and Views of the Child, available in Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and virtually. She is also an Approved Clinical Supervisor through the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, enhancing her commitment to guiding emerging professionals in the field.

Shannon holds a master’s degree in counselling and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), and is an approved clinical supervisor with the BCACC (RCC-ACS)

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Nadia Sorban, MACP Intern

Adolescents / Adults / Families / Youth

Nadia is currently completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology and holds a Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Education, and Master of Education. Before entering the counselling profession, she spent more than 20 years as an educator, supporting adolescents and their families through learning, growth, and life’s many transitions. Having lived and worked in Brazil, Paraguay, Singapore, and Canada, she brings an appreciation for the ways culture, identity, and life experiences shape how people see themselves, connect with others, and find a sense of belonging. Nadia brings warmth, curiosity, and a calm presence to her counselling work. Grounded in person-centred and strengths-based approaches, she strives to create a collaborative, non-judgmental space where clients feel heard, respected, and accepted. She integrates solution-focused and narrative therapies to help clients build on their strengths, explore what matters most to them, and move toward meaningful and lasting change. Nadia is open to working with clients experiencing anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, identity exploration, relationship and peer challenges, school stress, life transitions, and the challenges that can accompany immigration, relocation, or settling into a new community. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to creating inclusive and affirming environments where people feel seen, valued, and respected. She brings that same commitment to her counselling practice, welcoming 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals and people from diverse cultural backgrounds into a space where they can feel safe, supported, and free to be themselves. Outside of counselling, Nadia enjoys spending time outdoors, making music, exploring new places, and spending time with her dog.

Nadia is offering in-person sessions in Salmon Arm, BC, as well as virtual sessions throughout BC. She offers sessions at a significantly reduced rate and sliding scale.

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Mikayla St Onge MACP, MCP, RCC

Individuals / Youth & Young Adults / Adults / Attachment-Based / Narrative

Mikayla wholeheartedly views people as insightful beings, capable of self growth, healing unhelpful patterns and writing their own story. With this in mind, Mikayla offers a genuinely curious, nonjudgmental, and understanding posture from which people can feel heard and supported.

As an integrative psychotherapist, Mikayla combines aspects of attachment, trauma-informed, and narrative therapies, to explore and tend to, how early relationships and experiences shape the way we see ourselves and the world, our self esteem, beliefs, the way we interact with others, protective mechanisms, and other frameworks and patterns.

Mikayla’s professional experience involves working with anxiety and stress, relational difficulties, grief and loss, challenging life events and transitions, and trauma and adversity. Mikayla is especially passionate about building awareness, nervous system regulation, nurturing deep wounds, re-wiring maladaptive patterns, and building strong foundations from which clients can grow and flourish. With a focus on somatic and mindfulness-based practices, Mikayla supports individuals to become more attuned to their emotional triggers, reactions, thought patterns, beliefs, and somatic responses; fostering enhanced self-awareness, confidence, and resilience. Additionally, Mikayla has a special interest in working with youth experiencing life transitions and big emotions.

Passionate about working with vulnerable populations, communities, and families, Mikayla utilizes a trauma-informed lens and strength-based approach; creating a space dedicated to promoting safety, nurturance, compassion, exploration, and autonomy. Mikayla aims to tailor her work to each individual’s needs by embodying a holistic approach that seeks to explore a larger, depathologizing, and contextualized understanding.

Mikayla offers in-person and virtual appointments at our Salmon Arm location.

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Zakary Zarichney, MSW, RSW, RCC

Zakary is a Registered Social Worker and Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master of Social Work degree. Zakary provides comprehensive and personalized assistance to individuals, couples, and families. Zakary’s approach combines evidence-based and holistic perspectives to address various issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and complex relationships. Zakary is a Metis individual and a strong advocate for the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Zakary practices from an anti-oppressive and non-pathologizing standpoint, considering the overall well-being of individual’s mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual selves. Zakary specializes in analyzing and evaluating the dynamics of relationships. Zakary has 5+ years of experience working with individuals navigating complex and dynamic relationships. This includes working with couples facing intense conflicts, infidelity, separation, and divorce. Creating a welcoming environment is important to Zakary; he aims to foster genuineness, transparency, warmth, comfort, collectivism, and empathy in his practice. Zakary offers a judgment-free space for individuals to understand their feelings, responses, and reactions.

Zakary offers in-person and virtual appointments at our Salmon Arm location

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