Lesbian Therapists in Kelowna, BC
Are you feeling anxious, depressed, insecure, angry, or overwhelmed? Are you struggling to feel balanced, to manage your stress and build healthier relationships? Are you lost or stuck on the road to what you know deep down is your true self and best life? Imagine how far you could go and how easy it would be if you turned your steps into strides. As a registered social worker with over 15 years of counselling experience, it begins by you pushing aside the stigmas of mental health, reaching out for support, and confronting your fears. I am here to guide you along that path that most of us find confusing and overwhelming.
Are you feeling anxious, depressed, insecure, angry, or overwhelmed? Are you struggling to feel balanced, to manage your stress and build healthier relationships? Are you lost or stuck on the road to what you know deep down is your true self and best life? Imagine how far you could go and how easy it would be if you turned your steps into strides. As a registered social worker with over 15 years of counselling experience, it begins by you pushing aside the stigmas of mental health, reaching out for support, and confronting your fears. I am here to guide you along that path that most of us find confusing and overwhelming.
Areas of counselling: reproductive counselling (including reproductive choices such as the use of donor, surrogacy, or adoption, as well as exploring personal dilemmas that may be experienced when considering reproductive choices), counselling for in/fertility challenges during treatment, helping clients to explore family options beyond fertility treatment, reproductive counselling specific to single women and LGBTQ couples, perinatal counselling including: postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, grief, loss, and couples counselling.
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Areas of counselling: reproductive counselling (including reproductive choices such as the use of donor, surrogacy, or adoption, as well as exploring personal dilemmas that may be experienced when considering reproductive choices), counselling for in/fertility challenges during treatment, helping clients to explore family options beyond fertility treatment, reproductive counselling specific to single women and LGBTQ couples, perinatal counselling including: postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, grief, loss, and couples counselling.
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We are an online counselling agency so do not provide services in person. Strength Counselling Services has licensed, experienced therapists who use evidence-based practices, prioritize client needs, and maintain ethical standards. We offer culturally sensitive, affordable services in a supportive environment. We offer a comprehensive goals assessment, regularly assess progress, and collaborate with other professionals. We provide transparency in our fees and for thirteen years now have held a positive reputation of trust, and client success. Lastly, ensuring our clients' privacy and confidentiality are of utmost importance to us.
We are an online counselling agency so do not provide services in person. Strength Counselling Services has licensed, experienced therapists who use evidence-based practices, prioritize client needs, and maintain ethical standards. We offer culturally sensitive, affordable services in a supportive environment. We offer a comprehensive goals assessment, regularly assess progress, and collaborate with other professionals. We provide transparency in our fees and for thirteen years now have held a positive reputation of trust, and client success. Lastly, ensuring our clients' privacy and confidentiality are of utmost importance to us.
Hi, I’m Bryn, a master's level counselling intern!
I come from a background in varsity track and field, where I pole vaulted and sprinted at a collegiate level. I know firsthand the challenges that come with pressure, stress, anxiety, major life transitions, and everything in between. Being a student-athlete often means constantly juggling performance, school, work, relationships, and your own well-being, and that can be exhausting. I’ve been there.
I hold an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology & Physical Education from the University of Toronto and am currently completing my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville.
Hi, I’m Bryn, a master's level counselling intern!
I come from a background in varsity track and field, where I pole vaulted and sprinted at a collegiate level. I know firsthand the challenges that come with pressure, stress, anxiety, major life transitions, and everything in between. Being a student-athlete often means constantly juggling performance, school, work, relationships, and your own well-being, and that can be exhausting. I’ve been there.
I hold an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology & Physical Education from the University of Toronto and am currently completing my Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville.
My name is Sydney McKenzie-Hougestol (she/her) and I am a Registered Psychologist. I chose to go into this field because I love people and I believe in people. I have worked with people in the field of mental health, addictions, and trauma for 8 years. I think often the key to unlocking what is going on for a person is looking into the ways they have learned to judge themselves for what they feel and think and challenging those assumptions. I am passionate about working with people and empowering them find new ways of looking at themselves, their relationships, and the world.
My name is Sydney McKenzie-Hougestol (she/her) and I am a Registered Psychologist. I chose to go into this field because I love people and I believe in people. I have worked with people in the field of mental health, addictions, and trauma for 8 years. I think often the key to unlocking what is going on for a person is looking into the ways they have learned to judge themselves for what they feel and think and challenging those assumptions. I am passionate about working with people and empowering them find new ways of looking at themselves, their relationships, and the world.
Life can sometimes feel like a rough sea and counselling can help you navigate the turbulent waters. It is my goal to provide a space where you can work through challenging issues and provide support to navigate these areas of your life. I will support you by acknowledging your unique experiences and struggles with life circumstances, inviting you to explore new ways of coping. It is my belief that connecting to the body, using techniques such as breathing, noticing sensations, and recognizing how sensations are linked to feelings often provides insight and are powerful resources to work through emotions.
Life can sometimes feel like a rough sea and counselling can help you navigate the turbulent waters. It is my goal to provide a space where you can work through challenging issues and provide support to navigate these areas of your life. I will support you by acknowledging your unique experiences and struggles with life circumstances, inviting you to explore new ways of coping. It is my belief that connecting to the body, using techniques such as breathing, noticing sensations, and recognizing how sensations are linked to feelings often provides insight and are powerful resources to work through emotions.
Intrinsic Hearts Therapy and Wellness
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, RSW, BSW, BA
Kelowna, BC V1Y
I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and a Certified EMDR Therapist with over 18 years of experience. By gently interweaving both these modalities, EMDR becomes more gentle! I am passionate about journeying alongside my clients to aid a deeper loving connection with self and in turn with others. By incorporating the mind body connection my clients welcome parts of themselves and their lives that at one time may have been excruciating into an integral, whole and beautiful self. EMDR helps process through the most painful experience so that we can see ourselves in a new and resilient light. It’s such an honour!
I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and a Certified EMDR Therapist with over 18 years of experience. By gently interweaving both these modalities, EMDR becomes more gentle! I am passionate about journeying alongside my clients to aid a deeper loving connection with self and in turn with others. By incorporating the mind body connection my clients welcome parts of themselves and their lives that at one time may have been excruciating into an integral, whole and beautiful self. EMDR helps process through the most painful experience so that we can see ourselves in a new and resilient light. It’s such an honour!
Relationships can feel overwhelming when communication breaks down, intimacy fades, trust is damaged, or conflict becomes a constant struggle. Whether you’re facing relationship challenges, infidelity, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family conflict, or workplace stress, meaningful change is possible. I help individuals and couples create healthier relationships, strengthen communication, rebuild trust, improve emotional and sexual intimacy, and develop practical strategies for lasting growth.
Relationships can feel overwhelming when communication breaks down, intimacy fades, trust is damaged, or conflict becomes a constant struggle. Whether you’re facing relationship challenges, infidelity, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family conflict, or workplace stress, meaningful change is possible. I help individuals and couples create healthier relationships, strengthen communication, rebuild trust, improve emotional and sexual intimacy, and develop practical strategies for lasting growth.
Being a human is often a lot more than we "signed up for". I (typically) work with perinatal folks whose world just got rocked. But, if your world got rocked in another way (e.g. job change, relationship turbulence, grief/loss...) I'd love to help with that.
I work to thoroughly understand you, thoughtfully creating a space for your self-discovery. Together, we can locate your self-at-best, find resilience, improve emotional agility, and restore your adaptive functioning, where you are able to feel, deal, and heal in a way that honours who you are.
Being a human is often a lot more than we "signed up for". I (typically) work with perinatal folks whose world just got rocked. But, if your world got rocked in another way (e.g. job change, relationship turbulence, grief/loss...) I'd love to help with that.
I work to thoroughly understand you, thoughtfully creating a space for your self-discovery. Together, we can locate your self-at-best, find resilience, improve emotional agility, and restore your adaptive functioning, where you are able to feel, deal, and heal in a way that honours who you are.
Hailey is a goal orientated Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), an EMDRIA. Approved Consultant looking to welcome you to a balanced, healthy, and enjoyable lifestyle. Hailey’s experience is specialized in trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and self-development. Hailey is very passionate about providing effective, safe, and attainable therapy. If you are looking to try therapy that is focused on removing triggers or healing from past hurts, then Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) might be the best therapy for you.
Hailey is a goal orientated Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), an EMDRIA. Approved Consultant looking to welcome you to a balanced, healthy, and enjoyable lifestyle. Hailey’s experience is specialized in trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and self-development. Hailey is very passionate about providing effective, safe, and attainable therapy. If you are looking to try therapy that is focused on removing triggers or healing from past hurts, then Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) might be the best therapy for you.
Lisa's mission is to help people heal and grow through periods of transitions in their lives. Many of us struggle with alcohol / addictions, experience loss, grief, unhappiness or a sense of loss when we transition from one role to another in our daily lives. Some of us lose people we love, dreams we can no longer achieve, changes in careers, the diagnosis of a child with special needs, a loved one entering care, or who is ailing in health, Divorce from a spouse, the beginning of a new marriage, perhaps with a blended family. We accept private insurance plans, Victim Services(CVAP), ICBC Claims and Autism
Lisa's mission is to help people heal and grow through periods of transitions in their lives. Many of us struggle with alcohol / addictions, experience loss, grief, unhappiness or a sense of loss when we transition from one role to another in our daily lives. Some of us lose people we love, dreams we can no longer achieve, changes in careers, the diagnosis of a child with special needs, a loved one entering care, or who is ailing in health, Divorce from a spouse, the beginning of a new marriage, perhaps with a blended family. We accept private insurance plans, Victim Services(CVAP), ICBC Claims and Autism
You may be insightful, capable, and emotionally aware—and still feel stuck. Talking helps, but it hasn’t reached everything. Many people I work with sense something deeper asking for attention, held in the body or nervous system, or in feelings and images beyond words. In a world marked by uncertainty, stress, and collective challenges, this is common. I support thoughtful adults, including neurodivergent folks, people living with trauma or chronic stress, and women in midlife (inclusive of trans and non-binary people). If you’re seeking a gentler, generative, creative, more meaningful way forward, you may feel at home here
You may be insightful, capable, and emotionally aware—and still feel stuck. Talking helps, but it hasn’t reached everything. Many people I work with sense something deeper asking for attention, held in the body or nervous system, or in feelings and images beyond words. In a world marked by uncertainty, stress, and collective challenges, this is common. I support thoughtful adults, including neurodivergent folks, people living with trauma or chronic stress, and women in midlife (inclusive of trans and non-binary people). If you’re seeking a gentler, generative, creative, more meaningful way forward, you may feel at home here
You’ve been holding it all together for everyone else, but lately it feels like you’re barely staying afloat. Maybe the stress is piling up, your relationships feel strained, or you’re exhausted from trying to meet everyone’s expectations—including your own. You don’t have to keep pushing through alone. In our work together, you’ll have a space where you can be real, let go of the pressure, and start making sense of what’s really going on beneath the surface. Whether you’re seeking relief from anxiety, clarity in your relationships, or simply space to breathe again—I’m here to walk alongside you and help you reconnect to you.
You’ve been holding it all together for everyone else, but lately it feels like you’re barely staying afloat. Maybe the stress is piling up, your relationships feel strained, or you’re exhausted from trying to meet everyone’s expectations—including your own. You don’t have to keep pushing through alone. In our work together, you’ll have a space where you can be real, let go of the pressure, and start making sense of what’s really going on beneath the surface. Whether you’re seeking relief from anxiety, clarity in your relationships, or simply space to breathe again—I’m here to walk alongside you and help you reconnect to you.
I am a compassionate, caring professional, I will be right there with you along this therapeutic process. I practice from a client-centred holistic approach. We will work together to find strategies that works for you, to help to reach your goals, connecting with you inherent healing capacity and supporting your strengths. I have been working with children, adolescents and adults for more than 20 years. I am Bilingual (Spanish and English) Registered Art therapist, Registered Counsellor, Yoga Teacher and a Reiki Master. I offer Counselling in Osoyoos.
I am a compassionate, caring professional, I will be right there with you along this therapeutic process. I practice from a client-centred holistic approach. We will work together to find strategies that works for you, to help to reach your goals, connecting with you inherent healing capacity and supporting your strengths. I have been working with children, adolescents and adults for more than 20 years. I am Bilingual (Spanish and English) Registered Art therapist, Registered Counsellor, Yoga Teacher and a Reiki Master. I offer Counselling in Osoyoos.
My ideal client embraces the Kaizen philosophy of gradual improvement in mental health. They understand that healing occurs through small, consistent steps over time. Recognizing the mind-body connection, they're committed to nurturing both aspects of their health. Not seeking quick fixes, they're dedicated to long-term transformation, valuing steady progress and patience. Their goal is to cultivate resilience and build a balanced, purposeful life. Open to evidence-based approaches, they're ready to integrate new practices into their daily routine, walking the path of self-improvement one step at a time.
My ideal client embraces the Kaizen philosophy of gradual improvement in mental health. They understand that healing occurs through small, consistent steps over time. Recognizing the mind-body connection, they're committed to nurturing both aspects of their health. Not seeking quick fixes, they're dedicated to long-term transformation, valuing steady progress and patience. Their goal is to cultivate resilience and build a balanced, purposeful life. Open to evidence-based approaches, they're ready to integrate new practices into their daily routine, walking the path of self-improvement one step at a time.
Life doesn’t always follow the path we imagined. I know from my own life experience that we can face loss, family challenges, difficult relationships, unexpected change, and times when we have to find the strength to begin again. Those experiences have shaped who I am as a therapist and deepened my belief that our struggles do not have to define our future.
I work with teens, adults, and couples, including those who have experienced trauma, difficult family dynamics, grief and loss, relationship struggles, infidelity, addiction, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, body image concerns, identity questions, and major life transitions.
Life doesn’t always follow the path we imagined. I know from my own life experience that we can face loss, family challenges, difficult relationships, unexpected change, and times when we have to find the strength to begin again. Those experiences have shaped who I am as a therapist and deepened my belief that our struggles do not have to define our future.
I work with teens, adults, and couples, including those who have experienced trauma, difficult family dynamics, grief and loss, relationship struggles, infidelity, addiction, intimacy concerns, low self-esteem, body image concerns, identity questions, and major life transitions.
Hi, I'm Fiona. I started working in the mental health field over 24 years ago, first on the Crisis Lines and at various non-profit agencies, and later for the local health authorities. I've now been in private practice for over 15 years.
I believe in the transformative power of connection and companionship through life's most challenging moments. Whether you're navigating grief, processing trauma, or seeking support through loss, my approach is rooted in compassion, evidence-based practices, and the understanding that healing is a journey we take together. I create a safe, no
Hi, I'm Fiona. I started working in the mental health field over 24 years ago, first on the Crisis Lines and at various non-profit agencies, and later for the local health authorities. I've now been in private practice for over 15 years.
I believe in the transformative power of connection and companionship through life's most challenging moments. Whether you're navigating grief, processing trauma, or seeking support through loss, my approach is rooted in compassion, evidence-based practices, and the understanding that healing is a journey we take together. I create a safe, no
Dr. Ade Aladegbola (Gab) is a mental health practitioner and a Certified Canadian Addiction & Clinical counsellor. He is a member in good standing with BCACC,ACTA, CACCF and CCPA with full RCC, CCC & CCAC conferred. He completed a Ph.D in Psychology & provides psychoeducational assessment on learners across-culture and educational levels. He has a background in Canadian Criminal Law, an asset that enables provision of psycho-legal services to refugee claimants and numerous others with various mental health issues. Court mandated clients and others that desire living an addiction-free life always achieve it 'with' Gab. Call Now
Dr. Ade Aladegbola (Gab) is a mental health practitioner and a Certified Canadian Addiction & Clinical counsellor. He is a member in good standing with BCACC,ACTA, CACCF and CCPA with full RCC, CCC & CCAC conferred. He completed a Ph.D in Psychology & provides psychoeducational assessment on learners across-culture and educational levels. He has a background in Canadian Criminal Law, an asset that enables provision of psycho-legal services to refugee claimants and numerous others with various mental health issues. Court mandated clients and others that desire living an addiction-free life always achieve it 'with' Gab. Call Now
Experienced counsellor / certified professional coach with a proven history in social services / mental health care field. Skilled in Counselling, Executive Coaching, Individual / Couples Counselling and Mental Health Care. Studied at University of Victoria, University of Regina, Queen’s University, London School of Economics and graduate studies in counselling at Thompson Rivers University. Erickson ICF trained coach. I’m a solution focused counsellor with an integrated approach. With corporate and executive leadership experience, I understand the pressure of career & business on individuals and families. 20+ years experience.
Experienced counsellor / certified professional coach with a proven history in social services / mental health care field. Skilled in Counselling, Executive Coaching, Individual / Couples Counselling and Mental Health Care. Studied at University of Victoria, University of Regina, Queen’s University, London School of Economics and graduate studies in counselling at Thompson Rivers University. Erickson ICF trained coach. I’m a solution focused counsellor with an integrated approach. With corporate and executive leadership experience, I understand the pressure of career & business on individuals and families. 20+ years experience.
I specialize in supporting parents of children of all ages, helping them navigate challenges like technology use, anxiety, stress, depression, relationship dynamics, self-esteem, LGBTQIA+ concerns, school struggles, and household routines. With 15 years of experience, I provide guidance on managing screen time, academic pressures, and chore structure to create balance at home. While my primary focus is parents, I also work with individuals seeking support with all the above concerns. My goal is to help you build a fulfilling and well-structured life for yourself and your family.
I specialize in supporting parents of children of all ages, helping them navigate challenges like technology use, anxiety, stress, depression, relationship dynamics, self-esteem, LGBTQIA+ concerns, school struggles, and household routines. With 15 years of experience, I provide guidance on managing screen time, academic pressures, and chore structure to create balance at home. While my primary focus is parents, I also work with individuals seeking support with all the above concerns. My goal is to help you build a fulfilling and well-structured life for yourself and your family.
