Counselling
Counselling sessions available with Natascha Lawrence or one of our associates
Please note that Natascha Lawrence currently has a waitlist for new counselling clients. Bookings are only available for current clients and supervision sessions.
Our associates, Nicole Chan and Pamela Wallberg, have immediate availability for in-person and virtual sessions. Please book a free 15-minute telephone consultation to discuss how they may be a good fit to meet your therapeutic needs.
Counselling Services Available
Play Therapy
Youth Counselling
Parent Coaching
In-person and virtual neurodivergent tailored play therapy sessions available from birth to adulthood. Infant, child, youth, and adult play therapy sessions available.
Parent Coaching
Youth Counselling
Parent Coaching
In-person and virtual neurodivergent empowering tailored collaborative parent coaching/counselling sessions. FASD specific parent coaching sessions also available.
Youth Counselling
Youth Counselling
Youth Counselling
Trauma-informed, decolonized, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, somatic-based, neurodiversity empowering services. In-person and virtual sessions available.
Adult Counselling
Couples Counselling
Youth Counselling
Trauma-informed, decolonized, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, somatic-based, neurodiversity empowering services. In-person and virtual sessions available.
Couples Counselling
Couples Counselling
Couples Counselling
In-person and virtual sessions for couples. neurodivergent empowering, LGBTQIA2S+, polyamorous, sex and kink positive.
Family Counselling
Couples Counselling
Couples Counselling
In-person or virtual sessions for families, anti-oppressive, collaborative, neurodiversity affirming.
Clinical Director
(Fatima) Natascha Lawrence, M.A., R.C.C., BCRPT
When Natascha started working, she was deeply surprised and disappointed to find that many mental health services, organizations, and programs did not meet the needs of Neurodivergent clients nor those who have experienced complex trauma.
Natascha founded FASD Counselling and co-founded The FASD Institute to provide the services she could not find.
Some therapy modalities prescribe interventions that do not work many populations. At the FASD Institute we believe that counselling should focus on meeting folk where they are and that counsellors should walk along side clients to empower lifelong holistic healing.
Natascha is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, BC Registered Play Therapist, Certified Synergetic Play Therapist, EMDR Practitioner and works from a somatic and attachment based, decolonized, and anti-oppressive framework.
To learn more about Natascha please visit www.fasdcounselling.com
Associates
Nicole Chan
Nicole Chan, MA, RCC
Nicole's pronouns are she/her, and she works Mondays.
Nicole completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. She then moved to BC and completed her Master of Counselling Psychology degree from Adler University. Nicole is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a longstanding passion for working with families, focused on helping people connect deeper to themselves and others.
Nicole identifies as Chinese-Malaysian, with generations of her family born in Malaysia and ancestry linking back to Guangzhou, China. As a first-generation immigrant, she understands how the stigma around mental health can prevent folx from seeking help. She hopes to break down this stigmatization and make mental health supports more accessible and inclusive to all.
Nicole has experience with supporting children, teens, adults, families, and couples. She works from a person-centred, anti-oppressive and anti-ableist framework. She uses techniques from many modalities and has specified training in CBT and Gottman methods.
Nicole completed her counselling practicum at Touchstone Family Association in Richmond. She has also worked for Richmond Society for Community Living as an Independent Living Specialist supporting folx with developmental disabilities. She currently works as a Supporting Families Clinician for Richmond Addiction Services Society.
Nicole recognizes the individuality of each person she supports and aims to empower folx by giving them the space and tools necessary to empower themselves.
To contact Nicole please email nicole.chan@fasdinstitute.com
Pamela Wallberg
Pamela Wallberg, M.A., ECE/ITE,.
(she/her/hers)
Pamela works Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The grandchild of Polish-Jewish immigrants who arrived in Canada post-WW2, I was raised on my grandparents active farm in BC. I currently live with my three children on the unceded and stolen lands of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sel̓íl̓witulh peoples.
I hold a Masters of Arts from the University of British Columbia, where my thesis focused on multimodal approaches to emotional literacy in preschool-aged children. I am licensed as an Early Childhood / Infant Toddler Educator and a DiRFloortime practitioner; and have completed the Infant Development Consultant certificate program.
Prior to shifting my career to provide counseling services, I worked within the early childhood sector, delivering inclusive support services and parent coaching to children and their families. I have extensive experience working together with neurodiverse children and their families within school, childcare, nature/outdoor and home-based settings. I specialize in working with autistic children and their families, providing a strengths-based approach to recognizing and meeting emotional, sensory, regulatory and attachment needs.
I am particularly interested in incorporating mindfulness, play therapy and expressive arts approaches. I work to provide a safe space for children and their families to recognize, understand and celebrate their own sense of self and identity. I emphasize a warm, authentic approach that is tailored to meet individual child and family needs while affirming their strengths.
To contact Pamela please email pamela.wallberg@fasdinstitute.com