Ashlin is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) who specializes in supporting children (ages 5+), teens, young adults, and their families. She is passionate about creating a warm, engaging, and non-judgemental space where young people feel safe to express themselves, understand their emotions, and build confidence while navigating life’s challenges.

Ashlin works with children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, ADHD, neurodivergence, autism, emotional regulation difficulties, self-esteem concerns, school anxiety, friendship challenges, behavioural concerns, family conflict, stress, life transitions, and social-emotional development. She has a particular passion for supporting neurodivergent children and teens, helping them better understand their unique strengths while developing practical strategies that work with their brains rather than against them. She embraces a neurodiversity-affirming approach, recognizing and celebrating individual differences while helping clients build self-awareness, confidence, emotional regulation, and coping skills.

Ashlin understands that children and teens often communicate differently than adults. Therapy doesn’t always happen through conversation alone. She enjoys incorporating play-based therapy, art, creative activities, games, mindfulness, and expressive interventions to help young clients process emotions, communicate their experiences, develop problem-solving skills, and build resilience in ways that feel natural, engaging, and age appropriate.

Her therapeutic approach is client-centred, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and neurodiversity-affirming, recognizing that every child, teen, and family brings unique experiences, identities, cultures, and goals into therapy. Ashlin primarily draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) while integrating Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, emotion-focused therapy, and evidence-based interventions tailored to each client’s developmental stage and individual needs.

Ashlin also values working collaboratively with parents and caregivers, recognizing that children thrive when the important adults in their lives feel supported and equipped with practical strategies. She believes therapy is most effective when families work together to create consistency, strengthen relationships, and support lasting emotional growth.

Whether your child is struggling with anxiety, emotional regulation, ADHD, autism, school challenges, low self-esteem, or navigating a significant life transition, Ashlin strives to create a compassionate and supportive environment where children and teens feel heard, understood, and empowered. Her goal is to help every young person build resilience, strengthen emotional well-being, develop healthy coping strategies, and gain the confidence to thrive at home, at school, and in their relationships.

Areas of Practice

• Anxiety
• Coping Skills
• Depression
• Family Conflict
• Grief
• Life Transitions
• Peer Relationships
• Relationship Issues
• School Issues
• Self Esteem
• Suicidal Ideation

Education

• Master of Counselling – Gonzaga University
• ⁠Bachelor of Arts; Joint Major Criminology and Psychology – Simon Fraser University

Works with: Children, Youth, and Adults

Languages: English, Punjabi (fluent) Hindi (conversational)

Available: In person and virtual