Who We Are
At Turning Point our counsellors are committed to providing you with a space to heal, reflect, and transform your relationship to yourself and others.
We hold true to the idea we can not take you to places we have not gone ourselves. All our therapists and Interns are committed to this value by continuing to do their own personal work and in-depth training.
All therapists have been carefully selected to provide you with the skills to achieve your goals. We understand that finding the right fit in a therapy relationship is very important and provide you with a variety of backgrounds and interests to choose from.
Associates
Vancouver Location
Video Chat and In-Person
Monday - Saturday 11.30 am - 7.30 pm
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Aron Buky-Tompa RCC Counsellor
Pronouns He/Him
Aron has worked in the fields of mental health and addictions for over 9 years. His work centres around the therapeutic power of the relationship created in session, and uses the transformative power of a real human encounter to facilitate change.
Therapy can help create a new experience of what relationships can feel like. It provides space for healing trauma, processing anxiety, and finding meaning where there was only depression. Aron's practice focuses on clear communication and radical understanding, and fostering change through the therapeutic connection.
Working through trauma is a crucial part of therapy. It involves recognizing the places we can get stuck and frozen in restricted ways of living, and using the therapeutic bond to help move beyond the defensive and protective behaviours that trauma produces. This allows us more freedom and agency to make choices and deeper connections with others.
Experienced with:
- Anxiety
- Addictions
- Depression
- Relational difficulties
- Men's work, accountability, healthy masculinity
- Childhood trauma and family of origin
- Self-confidence and self-esteem
- Mental health diagnoses (OCD, psychosis, eating disorders)
- Alcohol and substance use
- Psychedelic integration and spiritual emergency
Vancouver Location
Video only:
Tuesday 1.30 pm - 7.30 pm
In-Person
Monday and Thursday
9.15 am - 2 pm
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Michelle Carchrae, RCC Counsellor
Pronouns She/Her
Seeking counselling can truly be a turning point in your life. Michelle believes that everyone has within them a drive towards growth and life and that our work in therapy is about helping you reconnect with this.
Michelle is trained in Internal Family Systems and Focusing-Oriented Therapy, both of which help clients to connect with themselves and the present moment in a safe and supported way. By getting to know the different parts of ourselves, we can heal the parts that are hurting and discover new ways of being in the world. This process helps us more towards greater aliveness and freedom.
Michelle also works from a client-focused, collaborative and attachment-informed approach, honouring the resilience that each person brings with them. Working together in this way can help us have new experiences that will become beacons in the dark. It can also be a way to understand ourselves more deeply, and a safe place to practice new skills and ways of being.
Experienced With:
- Anger Management
- Trauma, Childhood, and adult
- Anxiety
- Borderline Personality
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Life Transitions
- Relationship Issues
- Stress
- Women's Issues
Vancouver Location
In-Person
Wednesday 3pm - 9pm
Friday 9 am - 2 pm
Video
Tuesday and Saturday.
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Tina Komarnicky, Counsellor
Pronouns she/her
Going to see a psychotherapist can be life changing. I am so excited to take part in your decision to explore yourself. I am trained in relational and somatic approaches to therapy, which help clients to learn how to relate differently to themselves and others. These approaches support connecting with who you are in the present moment, no matter what’s happened in the past, safely. I help clients work through existential and relational challenges, with others, within themselves, and with events in their lives.
People come to therapy seeking support during times that are challenging or changing. Following the need to explore and to resolve past conflict within themselves, find solutions, and create meaningful relationships. I invite you to experience therapy, as a personal transformation that provides a richer presence and awareness of the here and now. Living in the moment offers the potential for more excitement and the courage to live your life more fully and directly. Together we can explore the parts of you that are hurt or are not listened to and help integrate them into your experience as a whole, self-sufficient human being.
Experienced with;
- Internal conflicts: Trauma, self-attack, self-criticism, depression, anxiety
- Addressing conflicts from earlier in life
- Self-Identity
- Career issues
- Emotional awareness and development
- Fears around Intimacy
- Problems with an intimate partner, parent, coworker
- Separation and divorce
- Wanting to connect
- Trauma and PTSD
- Diagnostic “disorder” eg: depressive, anxious, OCD, BPD.
Vancouver Location
Video only:
Monday 10am - 2 pm.
Tuesday 5 - 9 pm
Wednesday 1 - 9 pm
In Person
Tuesday 9am - 2pm
Thursday 3pm - 9pm
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Ella Bolourian RCC Counsellor
Pronouns She/Her
You may wish to live life more fully and meaningfully while you find yourself inhibited or limited with struggles between your wish for involvement in ordinary life and fear of leaving the house, mistrust of relationships, or hopelessness about the future.
At the heart of Ella's work is the firm belief that despite these common challenges we are all hard-wired with a desire for healing and growth. In creating a safe and engaging therapeutic relationship with you, Ella sees herself as a catalyst for such exploration and change.
Her true passion is to help you become mindful of your trauma-driven emotional, somatic and behavioural patterns while working with you to undo the still present barring effects of past traumas on your daily life.
This will allow you to move forward with vitality and empowerment in life and a clear sense of connection to your whole self and others. What emerges as a result of these profound neurobiological transformations is a state of calm, flow, connection, ease, confidence, and self-compassion.
Experienced With:
- Anger Management
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Borderline Personality
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Divorce
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Racial Identity
- Relationship Issues
- Stress
- Women's Issues
North Delta Location
In-person and Video
Tuesday 9.30am - 8pm
Wednesday 12noon - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
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Delyse Ledgard RCC. Clinical Director/Counsellor/Intern Supervisor
Pronouns She/Her
Delyse has over 30 yrs experience in the counselling field. She specializes in trauma work and utilizes a number of approaches that work from a relational, somatic psychotherapy approach. She is a Certified Somatic Transformation Practitioner and incorporates Internal Family Systems into her work. Other influences include: Gestalt, mindfulness, psychodynamic therapy.
In her work with couples, Delyse is a Certified Relational Life Therapy Practitioner (By Terry Real). She is influenced by a number of other approaches such as: Developmental Couples Approach, EFT, and attachment theory.
Experienced With:
- Trauma
- Family of Origin
- Attachment struggles
- Relationships
- Couples Counselling
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders
- BPD
- Self Esteem
- Clinical Supervision.
Delyse is unable to take on new clients at this time.
Kellie Shamenski, LMFT RCC
Pronouns she/her
Kellie brings over 11 years of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in both Los Angeles and New York City. She is committed to assisting clients in re-connecting to their true sense of self, including the core parts of oneself that are present without over-thinking and are aligned with our more vulnerable needs for safety, connection, and significance. Feeling safe and understood in session is paramount to co-creating emotional experiences that are transformative within therapy. Traumatic experiences leave us disconnected, disempowered, and stuck with automatic responses that take over. The good news is that neuroplasticity tells us that our brains continue to develop pathways throughout life and have the power to transform our emotions, our interpersonal relationships and assist us in mastering new skills.
Kellie’s approach to psychotherapy is eclectic and client-centered with an emphasis on combining concepts related to neurobiology and attachment. Additional influences include Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Somatic Therapy. Kellie has been trained in the practice of EMDR and has a trauma-informed approach.
Experienced with;
- Couples Counselling
- Trauma, PTSD
- Childhood difficulties
- Anxiety, Depression
- Attachment Struggles
- Self-esteem
- Grief and loss
- Parenting
Kellie is unable to take on new clients at this time.
Video Chat only at this time
Availability
Tuesday 11 am - 5 pm
Sunday 11.30 am - 5.30 pm.
Kerena Lam RCC Counsellor
Pronouns She/Her/Hers
As a queer person of color and a member of the LGBTQ2S+ community, Kerena is passionate about serving diverse populations and providing a safe, confidential space for individuals to discuss their personal stories and the challenges they face. In her clinical counselling experience, she has worked alongside individuals who have suffered from a wide range of diverse issues.
Kerena uses a collaborative, strength-based, client-centered approach, and draws from a variety of complementary approaches, which are tailored to each client's individual needs. These include, but are not limited to, Adlerian Therapy (a holistic, forward-looking approach that considers each person within the context of their total experience), Intersectional Feminism, Mindfulness-Based Somatic Therapy, EMDR, and Solutions-Focused Therapy.
Experienced with:
- Trauma
- CPTSD
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Self-worth
- Relationship or Family Issues
- Grief & Loss
- Identity-related Challenges
- Life Transitions
Kerena is taking new people on a waitlist. The waitlist is approximately 4 weeks long.
Please contact Laura (admin) to be added to her waitlist.