Carley is accepting new clients.

Hi, I’m Carley (She/They). I’m a student counsellor completing my practicum at AsUR.

Wherever you’re beginning, I believe counselling can offer a space to feel heard, understood, and accepted, with room to explore who you are and who you are becoming. I approach each person with compassion, curiosity, and openness, taking the time to understand your unique experience and what matters to you. Our work together is grounded in trust, connection, and belonging - a space where you don’t have to leave parts of yourself at the door.

I bring over 25 years of experience supporting children, youth, young adults, adults, and families,including nearly two decades as a professional educator and Inclusive Education specialist, with experience in advocacy, mentoring, and career counselling. Much of my work has been alongside neurodivergent individuals and families, including those navigating ADHD, Autism/AuDHD, giftedness and twice-exceptionality (2e), high sensitivity, dyslexia, and other learning differences. I bring professional and lived understanding of the questions and shifts that can unfold while exploring or navigating neurodivergence, as well as the ways it can intersect with relationships, learning, family life, and systems that don’t always fit. My own experience as a neurodivergent parent and member of a neurodiverse family adds another layer to this understanding.

I am especially passionate about working with gifted and twice-exceptional people, highly sensitive people, multipotentialites, and those in the creative and performing arts. My diverse professional background brings particular depth to work around learning, school and post-secondary pathways, career exploration, and times of transition. Counselling can also offer room to explore your strengths, interests, possibilities, meaning, and purpose, even when the path ahead isn’t yet clear.

I welcome exploration of LGBTQIA2S+ and intersectional identities. My work also includes parenting, caregiving, and motherhood, as well as burnout, health, and changing capacity. I bring extensive professional and lived experience with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)/Concussion. Grief and loss hold a particular place in my work, including the ways loss and significant change may touch identity, relationships, meaning, and our sense of what comes next.

Understanding you as a whole person matters to me. My approach is relational, integrative, strengths-based, neuro-affirming, trauma-and attachment-informed, and grounded in an anti-oppressive lens.

My interest in neuroscience and neuroplasticity sits alongside a deep appreciation for the mind-body connection and the emotional, relational, creative, and spiritual dimensions of human experience. A lifelong curiosity about the human condition - how we grow, adapt, connect, and come to understand ourselves - continues to shape my work.

Our work together is shaped by who you are, what you bring, and what matters to you. I value moving at a pace that honours your readiness and capacity, while staying attuned to what is happening for you in the moment. My role is to support a process in which you can explore, discover, make meaning, and deepen your understanding of yourself. My hope is that counselling can be a place where you feel accepted as you are now, have room for who you are becoming, and connect more deeply with your own inner knowing.

Melissa is not accepting new clients.

Hi, I’m Melissa (she/her). I’m a student counsellor completing my practicum at AsUR.

My work is rooted in my lived experiences as an autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) person. I’ve navigated late diagnosis, neurodivergent relationships, polyamory, divorce, and co-parenting, chronic illness, complex trauma and abuse, advocating for a neurodivergent child, and many forms of grief and loss. These experiences shaped my perspective of counselling, and I intend for our work together to be non-pathologizing and grounded in curiosity about your unique ways of making sense of yourself and the world. My approach often includes exploring the stories we carry about ourselves and the ones shaped by family, communities, systems, and culture.

I have engaged with San’yas Indigenous-Specific Anti-Racism Training and am committed to ongoing learning about the experiences of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples in the place now called Canada. I understand this requires ongoing reflection on my intersectionality, power, and responsibilities as a settler counsellor, and I believe that this work is essential in support of reconciliation.

I am passionate about supporting people on journeys of unmasking, self-discovery, and cultivating self-trust. I hold a special place for caregivers on a path of neuro-affirmative parenting, and for anyone who has ever struggled to feel like they belong. I believe healing takes many forms, including connection, community, and reclaiming identity - on your terms. Whether you’re navigating identity, burnout, relationships, parenting, complex trauma, or grief, I will meet you with compassion, curiosity, and respect.

My general availability is:

• Thursdays, online-only

• Fridays and alternating Sundays, in-person or online