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About Radiance Counselling Clinic
Our Philosophy
Our Philosophy
Our Philosophy
At Radiance Counselling Clinic, we believe that everyone has the ability to lead a happy and fulfilling life. Our philosophy is rooted in the belief that mental and emotional well-being are integral to overall health, and that therapy can be a powerful tool for achieving this balance.
Driven by compassion and empathy, we believe that hum
At Radiance Counselling Clinic, we believe that everyone has the ability to lead a happy and fulfilling life. Our philosophy is rooted in the belief that mental and emotional well-being are integral to overall health, and that therapy can be a powerful tool for achieving this balance.
Driven by compassion and empathy, we believe that human suffering arises when we have difficulty reconciling the difference between our reality and our expectations, which leads to disconnection from ourselves. By engaging in therapy, we address a range of topics that promote wellness and cultivate self-compassion to reconnect with yourself. Your journey to buiild inner strength and heal starts here!
Our Services
Our Philosophy
Our Philosophy
We offer a variety of counselling services to meet the unique needs of our clients, including individual therapy, couples counselling, and family therapy. With an overall mission to hold space for individuals to engage in self-discovery, we offer specialized services for trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, anger management, life trans
We offer a variety of counselling services to meet the unique needs of our clients, including individual therapy, couples counselling, and family therapy. With an overall mission to hold space for individuals to engage in self-discovery, we offer specialized services for trauma, depression, anxiety, addiction, anger management, life transitions, acculturation, and grief and loss.
We provide a safe, warm, and cozy environment for our sessions where we can connect and work through your concerns.
Our Approach
Our Philosophy
Our Approach
Our counsellors use a trauma-focused, client-centered approach, working collaboratively with clients to identify their goals, and develop a customized treatment plan. We strongly emphasize building a trusting and supportive therapeutic relationship. Our counsellors use CBT as the main modality while drawing from other approaches such as
Our counsellors use a trauma-focused, client-centered approach, working collaboratively with clients to identify their goals, and develop a customized treatment plan. We strongly emphasize building a trusting and supportive therapeutic relationship. Our counsellors use CBT as the main modality while drawing from other approaches such as ACT, EFT, compassionate inquiry, somatic experiencing, humanistic therapies, mindfulness, EMDR, and DBT skills training.
We hold the perspective that each individual has a unique purpose in life. We aim to help individuals embrace their uniqueness and heal from difficult experiences by building resilience and a positive mindset that is limitless to help them achieve their true potential in their life journey. Shatter the silence and tell your story - we are here to listen with our hearts and guide with care.
Areas of practice
Focus
As Registered Clinical Counsellors, our practice is focused on helping individuals, couples, and families who feel trapped and powerless, and desire to move forward on their healing journey with a positive mindset. With empathy and care, we work with adults and youth with mental health concerns stemming from childhood trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, and relational trauma, and women who are victims of gender-based violence and sexual assault.
To support individuals as they navigate through life's complexities, we offer counselling for concerns related to self-esteem, stress management, procrastination, perfectionism, burnout, anger management, and vicarious trauma. We also provide counselling for mental health concerns that include addictions, ADHD, emotional dysregulation (BPD), grief and loss, bicultural identity crises, family problems, acculturative stress, and life transitions.
With training in the Gottman Method and EFT, we work with couples who are facing communication and interpersonal challenges in their relationship. We offer court-ordered therapy for anger management and respectful relationships. We also work with families experiencing inter-generational conflict due to acculturation and intercultural tension from changes in family structure and dynamics.
Therapeutic Modalities
Our approaches are integrative and holistic with a culturally responsive, developmentally sensitive lens influenced by an understanding of the impact of trauma on the brain. This approach allows us to gain insight into a client’s unique developmental experiences and trauma responses. Some of the modalities our counsellors work with include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Committment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Family Systems, Mindfulness, Gottman Method, and Solution-Focused Therapy. We also offer speciflized trauma treatment using EMDR.
For couples therapy, we use the Gottman Method to increase closeness and intimacy between a couple while aiming to address conflict productively so that both partners can embrace positivity and shared meaning together. Couples who have effective tools to disarm conflict, offer understanding and compassion to one another, and build awareness of communication barriers that can be detrimental to a healthy relationship have shown to maintain stronger bonds and overcome relational discourse through the course of their relationship.
We offer family counselling to support families in adjusting to unexpected, traumatic, or transitional events and changes. We believe that a family is a unique social system with its own structure, dynamics, and communication patterns derived from parental values, transgenerational effects, and cultural expectations. We work with families to navigate conflict, overcome strained relational dynamics, and achieve balance in their home.
Collaboration, Culture, and Language Support
We strongly emphasize collaboration with our clients as we try to understand their narratives and explore their experiences through guided discovery. We help our clients to explore deeper emotions, thoughts, behaviours, and experiences that may be difficult to delve into on their own. We support them in unravelling their story so that they can openly talk about their concerns and gain clarity on how their situation has impacted them to bring about change when they are ready.
We are committed to tailoring therapy to the client’s needs by assessing and addressing their concerns effectively with evidence-based treatments. Our therapists offer therapy in English, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi. Due to their unique cultural identity and rich cultural experiences, we work with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and intersectionalities. As an advocate for diversity and inclusion, our approach emphasizes a culturally responsive and anti-oppressive outlook with an aim to decolonize mental health. Our clients also work across various industries which include healthcare, law enforcement, education, technology, and trades.
With validation, compassion, and trust in the therapeutic relationship, we can help individuals heal from past trauma and support them in navigating through emotional complexities and life transitions, enhancing their quality of life and well-being.
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Individual Counselling and Self-Compassion
Through individual counselling, we address a range of topics such as unpacking trauma experiences, understanding the role of attachment and the neurobiology of trauma, recognizing and regulating emotions, navigating through relational discourse, recognizing the importance of self-care, and managing your overall health and wellness by cultivating self-compassion. The goal of our therapy sessions together will be to help you develop the mental fortitude needed to heal, achieve personal growth, and enhance your well-being. Working on developing self-compassion will allow you to move more easily through difficult times in the future, as wells as attain a sense of inner peace and empowerment to advocate for your well being.
Anxiety Counselling
The anxiety counselling services we offer are designed to help you overcome fear, stress, and anxiety. Clients are provided a supportive and non-judgmental environment where they can explore their thoughts and feelings, gain insights into their behaviour, and develop strategies to manage their anxiety. Anxiety can be debilitating and disruptive leaving an individual feeling confused, vulnerable, and frustrated. Although experiencing a certain level anxiety is natural and an adaptive response in our nervous system to keep us safe, it becomes maladaptive when in overdrive. Understanding the neurobiology behind anxiety and the events that trigger it is critical to treatment. Therapy includes a deep exploration of how anxiety developed, how it is keeping you safe, and coping strategies that may be useful to manage high levels of anxiety. Psychoeducation on the neurobiology behind the stress response provides a deep understanding of how stress impacts the nervous system. In our sessions, I will support you in exploring your thoughts, emotions such as fear, sadness, and anger as well as triggers that lead to heightened levels of anxiety. Exploring earlier experiences and trauma that may have led to the development of negative beliefs and may be fueling negative automatic thoughts can help determine the root cause of anxiety to break dysfunctional thinking patterns. When dealing with anxiety, improving one’s self-concept and self efficacy can be an empowering and liberating process
Depression Counselling
The depression counselling services we provide are rooted mainly in CBT, ACT, and an understanding of polyvagal theory. With CBT, therapy can help you overcome feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and despair. We provide a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your depression. Therapy focuses on identifying and breaking cognitive patterns that fuel negative thinking with an integrative and holistic approach to target emotional, psychological, physiological, social, behavioural, and motivational factors that contribute to depressive symptoms. Behavioural activation, reframing negative thinking, and engaging in healthy living are integral to treatment. Using polyvagael theory, depression is perceived as a biological defense strategy or survival-based shutdown response due to the autonomic nervous system being in overdrive. Symptoms are characterized as immobilization, withdrawal, and a sense of hopelessness and impeding doom. Somatic experiencing and mindfulness-based interventions may be introduced to help the nervous system achieve a homeostatic state by providing cues of safety and stability. ACT therapy has also shown effectivness in reducing depressive symptoms by fostering psychological flexibility through acceptance of negative thoughts and feelings as transient mental events and committing to making choices that aligns with one's values and prioritizes personal goals that bring a sense of meaning and purpose. Overall, counselling sessoins focus on treating depression by aiming to acknowledge negative thoughts, implement lifestyle changes, tap into motivation to to set and achieve goals, and build a sense of accomplishment and a positive mindset through consistency and effort.
Trauma Counselling
Trauma counselling can help you overcome the effects of traumatic events. We use evidence-based techniques to help you heal from the psychological impact of trauma, including PTSD, anxiety, and dissociation. We provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your experiences and develop strategies to move forward. Therapy utilizes a 3-phase approach to establish safety and security inside and outside therapy, processing of trauma through exploration and deconstruction, and post-traumatic growth and reconnection. A trauma-focused approach integrates guided exploration, coping strategies, narrative interventions, CBT, and somatic experiencing to explore trauma, generate corrective emotional experiences, build a positive sense of self, improve self-efficacy and instill a sense of empowerment with rebuilding of trust. y. A neurobiological lens is used to understand the impact of trauma on the brain. Treatment can be combined with EMDR to process disturbing memories and negative core beliefs related to traumatic incidences.
Stress Management/Burnout
For stress management and burnout, we can help you explore and understand how you can manage stress. We provide an empathetic and collaborative space for you to talk about your challenges so you can cope with stress in healthy ways and overcome burnout. Therapeutic modailities are based in CBT, mindfulness, and EFT By managing your stress and how you respond under pressure, we can support you in achieving your personal and professional goals with guidance, support, and motivation. We can help you identify your strengths, overcome obstacles, and improve your work performance and functional well-being. Stress management techniques and conflict resolution skills are delivered to help cope with stress and minimize long term impacts of stress on wellbeing. Strategies to mitigate burnout are also discussed. Emphasis is placed on self-care and self-compassion as important to tools to manage stress and draw boundaries to maintain a healthy balance between various domains of every day life.
Grief Counselling
Our grief counselling services can help you cope with the loss of a loved one. We provide a safe and supportive environment where you can explore your feelings of grief, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies to manage your grief and move forward. Therapy focuses on identifying the form of grief or loss and helping the process of coming to terms with the loss with emotional support and compassion. My perception is that grief is a complex emotion and difficult for clients to navigate. Grief can be understood as love with nowhere to go and all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. An important aspect of grief is creating a vision for the future that is meaningful and honours the loss. Helping individuals better connect with their loss and move through related emotions such as regret, guilt, denial, anger, and sadness can help move towards acceptance of the loss.
Anger Management
For anger management, therapy is focused on a CBT approach to explore your thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and experiences to understand the complexity behind emotional dysregulation, nervous system acitivation, and conditioning. Our counsellors work with you to develop strategies to control your anger in healthy ways and help you rewire. By understanding your triggers and building awareness around how you can think, feel, and behave differently, we can help you mange your emotions and feel more regulated. We provide support to help you identify the root causes of your anger, develop coping skills, and improve your relationships with others. Treatment focus is on exploration of anger and where it is rooted as well as deep emotions that are masked by anger such as sadness, frustration, grief, resentment, guilt, and shame. Discussions to explore unresolved and suppressed anger from earlier experiences can be valuable for addressing the impact of trauma and moving forward with a sense of calm and internal balance. Anger can often be a part of the grief process and acts as a bodyguard for pain. When one's boundaries are encroached on, anger is a natural response for self-protection. Treatment provides coping strategies to manage emotional dysregulation through mindfulness, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and emotion-focused strategies. Learning how to manage anger can help regulate the nervous system as deep breathing, somatic release, mindful awareness, and re-regulation of your brain are important interventions discussed in therapy.
Eye Movement, Desensitization and Reprocessing-EMDR
We offer EMDR as a treatment approach to treat various mental health concerns such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and intrusive memories. EMDR has been effective to reduce trauma symptoms by altering the storage of memories in your brain. Dual attention stimulation achieved by bilateral eye movements or tapping can help process traumatic memories and target negative thoughts and beliefs related to negative experiences so they are no longer distressful.
Couples and Relationship Counselling
Our counsellors use the Gottman Method to work with couples to increase closeness and intimacy between a them while aiming to address conflict productively so that both partners can embrace positivity, a sense of trust, and shared meaning together. Using the principles of the Sound Relationship House Theory, therapy is focused on a disarming conflict using the four horsemen, cultivating fondness and trust in each other through maximizing emotional connection, and fostering a sense of empathy and understanding to encourage partners to understand each other's perspectives and find common ground. Sessions focus on improving communication, building intimacty, and managing conflict through validation, understanding, and building positive interactions.
Empowering You to ENGAGE IN self-discovery AND GROWth
Journey of Self-Discovery
Counselling can support you to embark on a journey of self-discovery where you can unpack your experiences and explore your thoughts and feelings without judgement. We derive a sense of meaning and fulfillment in engaging in conversations that explore the significance of past experiences and their impact on one’s growth and life trajectory. This is a sphere that holds valuable potential for remediating your understanding of yourself and your purpose in life. The journey of self-discovery focuses on understanding your own identity and standing in your own truth. Our understanding is that we prefer to see situations as black or white but much of life happens in the gray. Navigating the gray can be tough, leaving you feeling trapped and alone. This is a challenging process that requires you to navigate through your thoughts, beliefs, emotions, morals, values, and difficult experiences. Working on self-discovery challenges you to allow deeper emotions and experiences that may be repressed to come to the surface so they can be acknowledged and brought into your awareness with self-compassion and self-acceptance. Sometimes trauma experiences can leave imprints that stunt your growth and ability to connect with yourself. As you work towards removing all barriers that question your authenticity, you may uncover your own truth by reconnecting with yourself and revitalizing your potential. The process of healing and self-discovery may be deeply associated with uncovering your sense of purpose or simply with developing the ability to exist in harmony with the elements.
Self-Esteem
Our sessions are focused on building a sense of self, targeting self-worth, and boosting your confidence. Building self-efficacy is a building block to developing a positive mindset which supports the generation of a positive self-concept and the capacity to access inner wisdom. Therapy uses a CBT framework and CBT-based interventions to build a sense of empowerment, positivity, and self-efficacy. Reframing negative beliefs and exploring attachment wounds are an integral component of treatment. Exploring one's perception of their attributes and qualities that define them while recognizing strengths and weaknesses through self-reflection and awareness are core aspects of developing a positive sense of self. Repairing self-esteem may also require healing past trauma and changing deeply-rooted beliefs about one's self and feeling empowered to be independent and build positive relationships. Shadow work can also bring deeper insight into allowing the repressed parts of yourself due to shame, trauma, or fear of judgement come forward and be integrated into your conscious with awareness. The process may require unraveling deeper emtions and experiences such as anger, jealousy, guilt, resentment, and past failures. By bringing some of these undesirable and uncomfortable parts to light, we can explore their purpose and reframe them so you can accept parts of your personality with compassion and understanding. This can open new perspectives that can be explored resulting in increased inner strength, self-compassion, and authenticity, ultimately boosting your self-worth.
Counselling for BIPOC Communities
As a second-generation Canadian, we are passionate about working with immigrants, refugees, and members of the BIPOC community. We recognize and respect their unique challenges in Canada and along life’s journey. Deeply intrigued by each individual’s intersectionality that informs their unique cultural identity and spirituality, we support individuals in sharing their struggles related to discrimination and oppression experienced due to any part of their identity and circumstances that don't fit with the majority. Often times depression, anxiety, PTSD, emotional dysregulation, grief, and addiction can be a consequence of feeling oppressed and facing discrimination.
Youth Counselling
Youth counselling services are designed to help young people overcome a range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, behavioral issues, and more. We use evidence-based techniques to help teens develop coping skills, improve self-esteem, and achieve greater success in school and other areas of life including peer interactions and family dynamics.
Addiction Counselling
Our addiction counselling services can help you overcome substance abuse and other addictive behaviors. We use a variety of evidence-based techniques to help you develop coping skills, build a support network, and achieve lasting recovery. We also provide support for family members affected by addiction. Addiction such as substance use and alcohol addiction can leave an individual feeling alone and powerless falling into the addictive behaviour patterns more and more. This can lead to the deterioration of an individual’s health and well being by disrupting relationships, daily living routines, and financial stability while compromising quality of life. Therapy for addiction helps the individual understand the motives behind their behaviour and develop a treatment plan. We can help to break these dysfunctional behavior patterns by providing a safe space and emotional support to explore the addiction. Often individuals who have substance use issues may have comorbid depression or anxiety and may find it difficult to cope with stress, grief, relational discourse, and life transitions. We can support you in breaking dysfunctional patterns in dealing with overwhelming emotions and learn healthy coping strategies to build self-efficacy, improve distress tolerance, and change negative thinking to create a positive belief system.
BPD/Emotional Regulation/DBT Skills Training
Counselling for individuals who have borderline personality disorder (BPD) symtpoms or difficulty regulating emotions includes interventions from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in the form of DBT skills training which includes developing coping skills in the domains of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. Individuals with BPD struggle with emotional dysregulation, impuslvity and relational distress. Treatment includes unpacking earlier experiences that may have left individuals feeling invalidated and unheard. Learning coping strategies along with psychoeducational and having a safe space to address distressful experiences can help individuals take control of managing their thoughts, emotions, and relationships.
Women's Issues
Women face issues that impact their mental health ranging from general concerns to issues specific to their intersectionality with cultural considerations, trauma experiences, and biologically-based concerns. Therapy focuses on addressing intimacy issues, trauma, complex family relationships, prenatal and postpartum concerns, and life transitions. A culturally responsive and socially just lens is used to help women navigate through unique life experiences and cultural expectations. As women navigate through interpersonal violence, gender biases, objectification, multiple roles, and systemic oppression, counselling provides a space to safely unpack their experiences and gain clarity from a nonjudgmental and anti-oppressive lens that promotes a sense of empowerment. Often reinforcing a strong sense of self and gaining clarity on decision-making can be made easier with emotional support and a space to deconstruct their narratives while respecting their worldview.
Court-Ordered Therapy for Respectful Relationships and Anger Management
We provide court-ordered counselling for individuals who have been mandated to receive counselling for anger management, addictions, or respectful relationships due to a conviction or criminal charges. Our sessions are structured to provide psychoeducation, coping skills, exploration of themes and topics that are pertinent to addresss violence and aggression such as the cycle of power and control, intergenerational trauma, healthy and abusive relationships, and conflict resolution and healthy communication. One-on-one counselling can hold space for deeper exploration into important topics that may facilitate unpacking past experiences to help individuals reflect on and integrate new skills and strategies geared towards breaking aggressive patterns of behaviour and emotional dysregulation.
Crime Victim Assistance Program - CVAP Counselling
We have an approved counsellor for the Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP). If you have experienced a crime or a sexual assault, you can apply to the BC Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP) for assistance and receive $135 coverage per session. CVAP helps victims and immediate family members to cope with negative impacts of violent crime.
Service Provider for Medavie-Bluecross
We have an approved service provider for Medavie Bluecross to work with clients who are approved by the Interm Federal Health Program (IFHP) and Veteran Affairs.
Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection - Dr. Gabor Mate
Our Team aT Radiance
Reema Qamar, MA RCC/CCC
Reema Qamar, MA RCC/CCC
Reema Qamar, MA RCC/CCC
Reema is an empathetic and caring counsellor experienced in working with individuals who are suffering from anxiety, depression, and trauma as well as couples and families experiencing distress, conflict, and communication challenges. By engaging in therapy, she helps you address a range of topics so you can gain clarity such as unpackin
Reema is an empathetic and caring counsellor experienced in working with individuals who are suffering from anxiety, depression, and trauma as well as couples and families experiencing distress, conflict, and communication challenges. By engaging in therapy, she helps you address a range of topics so you can gain clarity such as unpacking trauma experiences, recognizing and regulating emotions, navigating through relational discourse, recognizing the importance of self-care, and managing your overall health and wellness by cultivating self-compassion.
Reema supports individuals with mental health concerns that include anxiety, depression, grief, relational distress, childhood trauma, PTSD, and sexual trauma. She also helps individuals overcome self-esteem issues, emotional regulation, stress management, acculturative stress, and life transitions.
As a second- generation Canadian, Reema is passionate about working with immigrants, refugees, and members of the BIPOC community and is fluent in English, Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi. She is an approved service provider for CVAP and IFHP. Her approach is integrative and holistic with a culturally responsive, developmentally sensitive lens influenced by an understanding of the impact of trauma on the brain and CBT as her main modality. She also draws from DBT, EMDR, ACT, somatic experiencing, family systems, and Gottman Method.
Reema's goal is to help you heal, achieve personal growth, and enhance your well-being by developing self-compassion and empowerment to feel content and at peace with your decisions whether you choose to create change or embrace the present moment.
Kiran Deol, MA RCC
Reema Qamar, MA RCC/CCC
Reema Qamar, MA RCC/CCC
Kiran is a skilled and compassionate counsellor with extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She is dedicated to assisting individuals in overcoming life's challenges and has a strong foundation in mental health and substance use. Kiran uses a client-centered, empathetic approach to therapy, emphasizing empowe
Kiran is a skilled and compassionate counsellor with extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults. She is dedicated to assisting individuals in overcoming life's challenges and has a strong foundation in mental health and substance use. Kiran uses a client-centered, empathetic approach to therapy, emphasizing empowerment and personal growth.
She is experienced in providing support across various settings, helping clients navigate mental health issues, substance use, trauma, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She employs evidence-based therapeutic modalities, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Person-centered Therapy and Mindfulness, to help clients gain insight into their emotions, develop effective coping strategies, and achieve sustainable, positive transformation. Kiran is fluent in English and Pujnabi.
Kiran's mission is to create a safe and supportive environment where clients of all ages feel valued, understood, and empowered to make the meaningful changes they seek. Whether you're an individual, a parent seeking guidance for your child, or a family facing a challenging period, Kiran is here to offer professional support on your journey toward healing and well-being.
Clinical Coordinators
Clinical Coordinators
Clinical Coordinators
Clinical Coordinators
Clinical Coordinators
Our clinical coordinators at Radiance Counselling Clinic are deeply committed to building a stronger community and availing resources. With their dedication to supporting individuals to improve their mental health by receiving the support they need, our clinical coordinators work hard to ensure they can help you with appointment bookings,
Our clinical coordinators at Radiance Counselling Clinic are deeply committed to building a stronger community and availing resources. With their dedication to supporting individuals to improve their mental health by receiving the support they need, our clinical coordinators work hard to ensure they can help you with appointment bookings, consultations, connecting you to resources, and answering any questions you may have regarding the counselling process. Our clinical coordinators also connect with healthcare and mental health professionals in our community to highlight our clinic's services so community members can receive the support they need and healthcare professionals can reach out to access allied healthcare services for mental health support.
I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.
Carl Jung
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