I’m excited you’re here! Some of what you might expect from our time together include an active implementation of anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and strengths-based perspectives. I love to draw on the natural creativity of others with the use of art, nature, and storytelling wherever possible.

Some, but not all, of the topics we might be able to navigate together include: experiences along the asexual and aromantic identity spectrums, sexual and gender identity, life transitions, anxiety, post-traumatic growth, relationship with food, exercise & body, and sex, dating & relationships.

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I am the Clinical Director of Burn Bright Counselling. Prior to starting Burn Bright Counselling in 2021, I had been working with youth and families through non-profit organizations for nearly 10 years, specializing in mental health, family relationships, substance use and LGBTQ2S+ counselling. I am a Registered Social Worker and graduated with my Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Victoria and am committed to continued learning and growing as a practitioner.

I strive to create a safe space for teens, parents and adults to feel comfortable in bringing their authentic self to the counselling space in order to further explore the connection to themselves and their healing process.

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Currently accepting a waitlist for new clients, please e-mail alyx@burnbrightcounselling.ca to book a free 20 minute phone consultation.

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Schedule for Nature Based Therapy

Wednesday Nature-Based sessions in Meegan/Beacon Hill Park

Friday Nature-Based sessions at Mount Tolmie

Schedule for In Person/Virtual at Burn Bright Office

Sessions available Tuesday & Thursday’s

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I arrive at this work and my relationship to Lekwungen lands and waterways as a settler of Gaelic Scottish, Irish, and British ancestry and as the descendent of early settlers on Coast Salish territories. I am immensely grateful for the Indigenous caretakers, Elders, and Two-Spirit people who have shaped how I approach my work. I hope that I may honour what has been shared with me and my community through living respectfully on these lands and centring a decolonial lens in my practice.

I have always been drawn to community care work that centres liberation and social justice. This has taken down many paths, including working and grassroots organizing in the realms of anti-violence, outdoor education, LGBTQ2S+ youth programming, teaching and facilitation, research, and supporting parents and caregivers of trans children and youth. I believe that individual and group counselling is a part of co-creating worlds that are affirming, caring, and transformative.

I am committed to creating a space that is welcoming and honours your agency and the fullness of who you are. I have an MSW from the University of Victoria, where I also teach as a sessional instructor, and am always seeking opportunities to learn and deepen my practice. My counselling approach is relational and collaborative, adapting to meet you where you are at. I am grounded in somatic, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive approaches. I believe nature can nurture support and growth; I offer sessions outdoors, so please let me know if this is something you are interested in!

As a queer and trans person, I am deeply committed to the well-being of LGBTQ2S+ community and families. I centre gender-affirming approaches in my practice that create room for exploration, uncertainty, ambivalence, and gender joy. I am passionate about working alongside trans, non-binary, and questioning youth as well as their family members, including parents, grandparents, and siblings. I also enjoy working with queer and trans parents and/or queer folks considering growing their family.

When I am not counselling or teaching, you can find me outside adventuring with my family. In the rare moments of calm in the chaos of parenthood, I love listening to podcasts and audiobooks while I garden or make food from scratch. I am always up for a cold water dip!

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I am a biracial, trans, and non-binary settler born in Canada. I’m descended from Indian immigrants and white settlers, and grew up in Treaty 7 territory in Alberta (Mohkinstis). I have been living in Lekwungen territory for two years, and feel a deep connection to these lands. As a settler, I am always deepening my understanding of how to decolonize my counselling practice and fulfill my responsibilities to the land and its original stewards.

I am a Registered Social Worker with a Master of Social Work from the University of British Columbia Okanagan. I have over 4 years experience working with both teenage and adult survivors of sexual violence and educating other professionals about how to support survivors in the work they do. I strive to work from an anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and strength-based lens that explores and affirms the impacts of politics, community, identity, environment, and relationships on mental health. My approach incorporates narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, self-compassion, the neurobiology of trauma, and somatic (body-based) interventions.

I believe that healing happens through authentic relationships where you feel truly seen, heard, and accepted. I bring my full self into the counselling room - I’m a nerdy human who loves to laugh, leans into the awkward, stumbles over my words, and acknowledges what I don’t know. I have lived experience navigating chronic depression, accessing gender-affirming care, and finding my place in a world where I often felt I did not “fit.”

I am honoured to walk with my clients through the messiness of healing and being human, together. We can laugh, cry, sit together in silence, celebrate your wins, rage against systems and people who have hurt you, ask questions, and explore hard truths. I invite you to show up exactly as you are and know that there is space for all of you here.

When I’m not counselling, you can find me drinking copious amounts of tea, reading all the books, lounging by the ocean or in the forest, obsessing over my two kitties, crafting, and spending quality time with friends.

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Currently accepting a waitlist for new clients, please e-mail alexmayr@burnbrightcounselling.ca to book a free 20 minute phone consultation.

My name is Alex, and I’m so glad you’re here. I use she/her pronouns, though I also feel respected by they/them.

I live and work on the unceded traditional territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Malahat, Quw’utsun, and WSÁNEĆ Nations. I hold deep gratitude for the privilege of calling this beautiful land home and strive to practise with cultural humility and ongoing reflection.

You’re meeting me now as a counsellor, having completed a Master of Counselling degree through City University in 2025. My professional path has been diverse and winding: I’ve worked as a Registered Massage Therapist since 2012, earned an Advanced Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2019), and completed a Bachelor of Health Science (2021). These experiences shape how I show up in the counselling space—grounded in body-based wisdom, systems thinking, and a deep respect for each person’s unique story.

Outside of my work, I’m a partner to a wonderful nonbinary human, a dog-mum to the best little pup, a lifelong language learner, an amateur gardener, a dancer, and a passionate traveller—especially drawn to the culture and landscapes of Japan.

I bring a lived understanding of both privilege and marginalization. As a Canadian-born, non-religious, white person, I hold dominant identities related to race, national origin, and religion. As a gay woman, I also navigate non-dominant experiences of gender and sexuality. My life has included surviving a traumatic brain injury, experiences of houselessness, and work as a sex worker—all of which inform my deep commitment to destigmatizing these experiences and holding space for others navigating similar paths. While I would never assume my experiences mirror your own, I hope it’s helpful to know that I may offer some meaningful points of connection. I will meet you with empathy, curiosity, and care.

I work with individuals of all identities, ages, and lived experiences, and I hold a special interest in supporting people navigating concerns around sex, sexuality, identity, gender, LGBTQ2S+ experiences, trauma, chronic pain, current and former sex work, and alternative relationship structures such as polyamory and kink/BDSM.

I’m passionate about client-centred care and find deep meaning in supporting people as they build autonomy in their healing journeys. My hope is to co-create a space that feels safe, affirming, and collaborative—one where your goals, values, and voice are honoured every step of the way.

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I am a Registered Social Worker having graduated from the University of Victoria and am committed to continued learning for as long as this brain allows. I gained experience working in non-profit organizations, providing education and resources in sexual health, harm reduction, and crisis response. Each individual’s perspective on the world is a kaleidoscope of experiences forever moving and changing. This is why I ground my work in a holistic, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed framework. As each of our kaleidoscopes is unique, so too are our healing journeys - I work to weave together tools from various modalities like Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Narrative Therapies, and Emotion-focused therapies

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Currently accepting a waitlist for new clients, please e-mail nicole@burnbrightcounselling.ca to book a 20 minute free phone consultation.

As a therapist, I am dedicated to walking alongside you on your journey, working with the strengths you already possess to flourish as your best self. With an abundance of generosity and warmth, I bring a sense of humor and levity to our sessions, knowing that even through the darkest of times, there is space for light.

Therapy should be accessible for everyone, and I hold space for all identities and experiences by working from an anti-oppressive, decolonized, and queer theory standpoint that seeks an inclusive, affirming, and socially just environment. My unlearnings have gifted me a lesson in deconstructing binary thinking and so-called normative assumptions related to gender and sexual orientation, holding queer theory close to my heart in supporting my clients to explore and express themselves as authentically as they wish.

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My name is Magda and I use they/them pronouns. I am a settler of English and Norwegian descent who grew up on the unceded traditional territory of the K’ómoks First Nation. Over the past decade I have been fortunate enough to live on both coasts on the traditional territory of the Mi’kmaw people (Halifax, NS) as well as currently on the traditional territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋən people (Victoria, BC).

I am a queer person with a passion for community, mental health and nature. I have been working with youth in a mental health and outdoors program for the past four years and through this work I have come to see nature as an amazing resource for mental health. If you’re interested in exploring counselling outdoors, let me know! I offer virtual, in person (in office) and in person (outdoor) sessions.

As someone who started their counselling journey later in life, I understand what it’s like to face emotional, financial and physical barriers to accessing care. I’m grateful that you are here, I understand how hard it can be, and I am honoured to support you on your path.

My approach to counselling is strength-based, collaborative, compassionate and focused on your healing as you define it. I’m very passionate about supporting 2SLGBTQ+ people and have been working in community support roles for fifteen years, which has helped me to understand the importance of connection, validation and being heard. There are so many possibilities in counselling and if you’d like to explore that together, I’d be honoured to get to know your world.

When I’m not at school or Burn Bright, I do my best to prioritize quality time with loved ones, travelling around this wild world, listening to the sounds of waves, eating delicious food, cheering on drag performers and dreaming of going to a Chappell Roan concert with my wife.

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I am queer and non-binary, and in an ongoing process of finding language that fits my experience. I am a settler of mixed European descent and grew up on the unceded traditional territory of the Quw’utsun’ people, also known as the Cowichan tribes. I now live on unceded Lək̓ʷəŋən territory. The process of personal and professional decolonization continues to enrich my life and increase my gratitude to the stewards of this land, their relationship to it, and the beauty of the land itself.

Before pursuing my Master’s in Counselling, I was a manager in the service industry for 15 years. This work, much like life, sometimes asks us to compartmentalize our struggles or parts of our authentic selves in order to be in certain spaces. It has instilled in me the importance of cultivating boundaries that can hold my authenticity while engaging what the space I’m in is asking for. This informs my approach in the counselling room: holding a space for your authentic self and navigating how to hold on to it alongside the complexities of life, circumstances, relationships and wounds.

I believe that each person knows themselves best and see our work together as supporting your connecting to yourself. I also believe that healing work is sometimes about finding and other times about intentionally forming, who we are and how to move forward.

I have a passion for working with people navigating the complexities of religion and religious communities. This could include experiences of religious doubt, clergy abuse, processing harm in the context of religion or a religious community, and/or seeking to unlearn harmful religious beliefs. The intersection of these with being a part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community is an area of personal experience for me. This gives me a deep appreciation for how layered and scary this arena can be.

When I’m not studying or working, I enjoy deepening my connections to self (through coffee and meditation in the morning) and my community (usually through sharing food and conversation and/or adventure).

When I have other pockets of time, I like taking on a building project of some kind. The process of creating slows me down and connects my mind and body. It also helps me hold both beauty and imperfection together.

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