Meet Tasha
Tasha Simms M.A. MPCC
Master Practioner in Clinical Counselling – CPCA #2039
Tasha is a Registered Professional Counsellor with the Canadian Professional Counselors Association and bound by their Ethical Practice Standards. She holds a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology and has a private practice in downtown Vancouver. She loves working with both individuals and couples and also offers on-line counselling sessions, personal growth workshop facilitation and innovative body centered meditation techniques.
Open, transparent and non-judgmental she is committed to creating a safe and nurturing environment to support you in exploring and accepting your authentic self. She works with a variety of disciplines including Family Systems, Body Centered Modalities, Gestalt, and Cognitive and Psycho/Spiritual orientations. A student and teacher of A Course in Miracles for over 20 years, her approach while transpersonal, is never dogmatic. She has taught and supervised future counsellors for many years, currently facilitating her Body Awareness Training program at Rhodes Wellness College.
Tasha is certified Master NLP facilitator also trained in hypnotherapy, energy healing and group dynamics. She has produced an audio training designed to wake up and move through feelings in the body landing in a sensory experience of one’s authentic true nature. Her integrity, skills, compassion and celebration of life are just some of the gifts she brings to her commitment to be of service. Tasha can be heard live every Wednesday 6-7 pm on 100.5 FM where she co hosts Conscious Living on Co-op Radio.
Introducing Lucy
Lucy The Golden Doodle
Canine Support
Still in training to be a therapy dog Lucy is pure love. She is hypoallergenic but if you are not comfortable with dogs she is happy to snooze away in her kennel.
My dream is that one day she will lay by the fire for sessions and learn how to offer emotional support when appropriate.
I have always loved dogs and was inspired to get her when a client had a huge breakthrough in therapy simply because of a dog I was caring for. This client had a history of childhood abuse and would always stop at the same point in her story, literally freeze to avoid feeling the pain that was locked in her body. That day Roxy the Doodle approached her and laid her head on her lap. My client gazed in her eyes, stroked her head and as her breathing deepened, she told the full story of her trauma from beginning to end. I was moved to tears. I knew the science behind a dog’s ability to calm the fight flight freeze part of the brain, and decided in that moment that I would offer this in my practice.