Janaya Andrews is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Victoria.

Janaya brings experience from multiple mental-health settings, including acute in-patient psychiatry, where she worked alongside psychiatrists and mental-health nurses, and community programs supporting youth and families. She found her passion in private practice, where she values the opportunity to connect deeply with clients and support them in creating meaningful change.

Approach to Counselling

Janaya’s counselling approach is warm, collaborative, and client-centered. She draws primarily from Narrative Therapy, helping clients re-author their stories in ways that emphasize strength, meaning, and growth. She also integrates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Existential Therapy to support a wide range of emotional and relational needs.

For couples counselling, Janaya incorporates the Gottman Method, focusing on communication, conflict management, and rebuilding emotional connection. She tailors her approach to fit each client’s personality, goals, and lived experience, ensuring that therapy feels personal and effective.

Areas of Focus

1. Anxiety & Depression Janaya helps clients navigate anxiety, low mood, self-criticism, and stress by developing awareness, coping tools, and self-compassion. Her approach supports clients in identifying patterns of thought and behaviour that keep them feeling stuck and replacing them with more balanced and empowering perspectives.

2. ADHD and Executive Functioning With advanced training in ADHD treatment, Janaya works with both adults and teens to improve focus, motivation, organization, and emotional regulation. She helps clients understand how ADHD impacts their daily life and develop strategies for managing overwhelm, procrastination, and self-esteem challenges.

3. Trauma and Emotional Healing Janaya offers trauma-informed counselling that helps clients process difficult experiences safely and at their own pace. Using approaches like IFS and mindfulness-based techniques, she supports healing from past pain, reducing triggers, and strengthening self-trust.

4. Relationships & Couples Counselling Whether addressing communication struggles, conflict, or disconnection, Janaya works with couples to restore trust and mutual understanding. She also supports individuals navigating relationship transitions, boundaries, or patterns in dating and attachment.

5. Teens and Young Adults Janaya has extensive experience working with youth and young adults navigating stress, identity, academic pressure, and relationships. She creates a space where teens feel understood, respected, and empowered to express themselves. Her calm, genuine approach helps build trust and encourages meaningful conversations about mental health, confidence, and self-discovery.

What to Expect

Clients describe Janaya as empathetic, genuine, and easy to talk to. She believes therapy is a collaborative process- one where curiosity, compassion, and honesty guide growth. Her goal is to help clients feel seen, supported, and equipped with tools to navigate both challenges and change.

Outside of Work

Outside of her work, Janaya enjoys running and hiking with her dog, reading on her porch with coffee in hand, and capturing memories through scrapbooking.

Contact Janaya

Email: Janaya@lakesideclinical.ca

Phone or Text: 250-258-2696

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Brady Thompson is a Registered Social Worker (RSW) with a Master of Social Work degree from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He provides counselling in Kelowna, BC and online, supporting individuals navigating challenges such as anxiety, ADHD, depression, trauma, addictions, health concerns, grief, and major life transitions.

Approach to Counselling

Brady integrates trauma-informed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and mindfulness-based therapy to provide individualized, evidence-based care. He works with both adults and teens, supporting clients across the lifespan with a focus on building resilience, strengthening coping skills, and fostering personal growth. His sessions are collaborative, empowering, and tailored to each client’s unique goals and strengths.

Indigenous Identity & Cultural Safety

As a proud Métis social worker registered with the Métis Nation of BC, Brady incorporates his cultural identity into his practice. He prioritizes cultural safety, decolonization, and social justice, creating counselling spaces where clients feel respected, empowered, and free from judgment. Drawing on both Indigenous worldviews and evidence-based practices, Brady supports healing that emphasizes resilience, community, and connection.

Personal Experience

Brady is also a cancer survivor and lives with his own mental health diagnoses. These lived experiences give him a deep sense of empathy, humility, and authenticity, allowing him to connect with clients in ways that validate their struggles while holding hope for healing and growth.

Areas of Practice

1. Trauma & Stress Recovery

Trauma-informed therapy (CBT, DBT, IFS)

Experience with PTSD and trauma-related symptoms

Mindfulness-based stress reduction strategies

1. Grief & Loss Counselling

Support for bereavement, anticipatory grief, and life transitions

Models include Worden’s Tasks of Mourning & meaning-making approaches

1. Addictions & Harm Reduction

Extensive experience in harm reduction, crisis support, and substance use education

Work with Indigenous communities impacted by substance use and systemic barriers

1. Mental Health Counselling

Support for depression, ADHD, anxiety, panic, relationship challenges

1. Indigenous Health & Wellness

Experience in Indigenous health contexts with awareness of colonial impacts

Commitment to equity, cultural responsiveness, and respect

What to Expect

With a warm, collaborative, and client-centered style, Brady provides a safe space for individuals to explore their experiences, build coping skills, and move toward healing and greater well-being.

Outside of Work

Brady is a dedicated long-distance runner and often competes in Ultra Trail running events across Canada, sometimes alongside his dog, Alaska.

Contact: Email: Brady@lakesideclinical.ca Phone: 250-258-2696

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Cheryl Koressel, MA, RMFT

Cheryl is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She holds a Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Antioch University Seattle and a Bachelors in Psychology, Counselling, and Human Development from Simon Fraser University.

Cheryl has extensive experience working with children, teens, adults, and families in both community mental health and private practice settings. Cheryl trained as an ADHD therapist at Hallowell Todaro ADHD & Behavioral Health Center in Seattle, WA and is a Certified ADHD clinical services provider.

Approach to Counselling:

Cheryl’s approach to counselling is grounded in evidenced-based practice and adds eclectic and individualized strategies to meet client goals. Depending on her client’s needs, Cheryl will draw from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Executive Functioning Strategies, and art and play therapy modalities. Cheryl strives to empower clients to build and generalize skills for long-term outcomes. Clients feel supported and comfortable with Cheryl because she brings a sincerity and warmth to the therapeutic space through a blend of humor and acceptance.

What to expect:

Cheryl knows that her connection to her clients is a vital aspect in the therapeutic process. Clients can expect and appreciate Cheryl’s care to be curious and understand who her clients are, their unique experiences, and therapeutic goals. With a collaborative and directive approach Cheryl collaborates with clients to develop strategies to develop their desired outcomes. Her goal is to see her clients feel empowered and supported.

Outside of work:

Outside of work, Cheryl’s passions also include being an amateur historian, exploring new towns and playing tourist, being a fair weather fan of local sports teams, trail running and hiking, playing with her kids, and reading.

5 core areas of focus

1. ADHD & Neurodivergence. Cheryl is a certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider. Cheryl assists clients in identifying challenges related to ADHD & executive functioning, supports understanding of neurodivergent experiences through psychoeducation, parental support, and finding tools and strategies to successfully meet goals at school, work, relationships, and life at home.

2. Parent & Family Support. Cheryl meets families and parents where they are at with empathy and understanding. Sessions are used to identify and understand the challenges in the family system, support effective communication, navigate unwanted and disruptive behaviors, neurodivergence, and building and strengthening familial relationships.

3. Depression & Anxiety. With warmth and understanding, Cheryl creates space to share the difficult experiences in life and meaningfully explore the systems involved in anxiety and depression. Cheryl works with her clients to access self- care in hardship and times of crisis and develop a toolkit to manage and alleviate symptoms.

4. Children, Teens, and Young Adults. Cheryl has extensive experience working with children, teens and young adults utilizing a blend of modalities such as art, play, and talk therapies. Cheryl takes the time to build a strong therapeutic relationship that leaves clients feeling supported, understood, and connects them to the tools and strategies that build a self-assurance in their skills, qualities and identities, and actualize personal goals.

5. Life Transitions & Identity. Change is inevitable, though life does not always give us warning or the blueprint on how to navigate it. Cheryl understands that life can bring new roles, changes in families, grief, self-understanding, deep wounds, bright experiences, and more. Cheryl approaches any life transition with humility, steadfast support, and encouragement to help clients find their ideal path forward to a new chapter through empowerment, self-advocacy, and personalized strategies.

Email: Cheryl@lakesideclinical.ca Phone or text: 250-258-2696

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Melanie is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts Degree focused in Anthropology and Indigenous Studies. Melanie has experience and a passion for working with youth and adults who struggle with addictions, anxiety, depression, self-harm, trauma, neurodivergence, self-esteem, and self-worth. Knowing the path to healing can lead to incredible outcomes, Melanie is committed to meeting clients where they are at while supporting them on their journey to mental health wellness and resilience.

Melanie employs a socially just and culturally sensitive perspective in working with clients, especially those who are socially disadvantaged, LGBTQ2SIA+, First Nations and Indigenous. Melanie is client-centered, which involves utilizing curiosity, feedback, and unconditional positive regard to honor the unique experiences of each client and create a therapeutic space of non-judgment and acceptance. In addition, Melanie’s holistic approach encompasses emotional, mental, relational and spiritual aspects of your life to understand the experiences that shape how you view your triumphs and struggles. Melanie’s journey to being a mental health professional was a personal one. The experience of working with her own counsellors through pain, loss, and healing has shaped her own empathetic, non-judgmental, and warm approach. Melanie understands that reaching out for help can feel vulnerable or uncomfortable. She wants you to know that she sees your struggle and you are not alone.

Melanie’s eclectic approach to counselling includes utilizing different treatment modalities, such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Solutions-Focused Therapy (SFT), Trauma-Informed systems approach, Neuropsychology, and Strengths-based treatment. When not working, Melanie loves spending time with her immediate and extended family. Her passions include gardening, going for nature walks, reading, and exploring the ocean and beaches of the west coast.

Phone: 587-578-6352

Email: Melanie@lakesideclinical.ca

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Alex Lundgard is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Victoria. Alex has lived experience with mental health concerns, specialized training, and over 10 years of mental health and social work experience in social service settings. She has worked with individuals and families experiencing crisis, trauma, domestic and sexual violence, addictions and mental health concerns, neurodivergence, health concerns, career change, and life transitions. In all of her roles she practiced from an anti-oppressive, person-centered, and traumainformed perspective. Her passion is helping individuals find pathways to hope and healing, while assisting them to meet identified needs through connection to and navigation of community resources. Approach to Counselling Alex’s approach to counselling is empathic, non-judgemental, and compassionate. She utilizes IFS (Internal Family Systems), Somatic, Narrative, CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy), ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy), Solution Focused, Mindfulness, and EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) approaches for adults and couples. She is an allied and affirming 2SLGBTQ+ counsellor with specialized training in gender and sexuality. Areas of Focus 1. Anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, self-worth and life transitions 2. Neurodiversity (ADHD and Autism) 3. Trauma processing 4. Couples and Relationships (monogamous, non-monogamous, open, polyamorous, and non-traditional relationship dynamics) 5. 2SLGBTQ+ Affirming/Identity, sex, and sexuality What to Expect Sometimes we experience difficult times in our life and need someone to truly hear us, connect to, and understand the concerns we are sharing. With lived experience and specialized training, I can walk with you and explore your concerns with compassion and understanding. Together we can uncover paths to healing that are within yourself and your community. Outside of Work I love exploring and camping in BC’s mountain landscapes, and working on artistic pursuits.

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Krista is a registered clinical counsellor with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Krista has specialized training in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a therapeutic approach that helps individuals process and heal from traumatic memories by using guided eye movements. S

Krista is passionate about helping individuals break free from negative patterns and develop a deeper sense of self. She specializes in trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and relationship issues, but works with a wide range of mental health concerns. Her approach is warm, non-judgmental, and collaborative, aiming to create a safe space where clients feel heard and validated. Krista believes that healing happens not just in therapy, but through the practice of new skills and insights in daily life.

Her training includes EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT). By tailoring her approach to each client’s unique needs, Krista empowers individuals to develop resilience and navigate life’s challenges with confidence and clarity.

Core Areas of Focus: 1. Trauma 2. Identity/Sense of Self 3. Depression and Anxiety 4. Substance Use 5. Major Life Changes

Contact: Email: Krista@lakesideclinical.ca Phone: 250-826-5377

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Jessica Alderliesten BA, MSW, RSW (gender pronouns she/her/hers)

Jessica has a master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, and is a Registered Social Worker. She is currently completing a certificate in family mediation through the Justice Institute of BC. Jessica works with both children and adults dealing with a wide range of emotional difficulties including depression, anxiety, personal and work-related stress, parenting, and relationship challenges. She is especially passionate about helping families through difficult life transitions such as divorce and separation. She can help parents to act in the best interests of the children as they navigate conflict, restructure the family system, and implement coparenting plans.

Jessica strives to ensure you feel heard, supported, and empowered to heal and grow in the ways that matter most to you. Her aim is to provide a safe relationship where clients can explore options, gain insight, and obtain strategies to move forward in a positive way. She is gentle, empathetic, and client centered. Jessica applies a variety of approaches including the Gottman Method, Family Systems Theory, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Theory, and Motivational Interviewing techniques.

Areas of focus include: Families, children, & youth Separation and divorce Coparenting Relationships Navigating conflict Mental health and substance use Grief and loss

Phone: 250-826-5377 Email:  jessica@lakesideclinical.ca

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