The Shanti Counselling Centre welcomes Sharalyn Jordan as a clinical associate. Sharalyn has made Vancouver her home since 2000. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with an MA in Counselling Psychology and is currently completing a PhD in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia.

Sharalyn brings deep respect, warmth, and compassion to her counselling practice. She works collaboratively with clients, helping them tap into their own strengths, values, creativity, and courage as resources for healing and change. By blending mindfulness and body-oriented approaches into counselling Sharalyn helps clients recognize and use their full range of emotions skillfully. Sharalyn takes a creative approach to working with the patterns, beliefs, stories, images, and metaphors people live by---helping clients envision healthier, more fulfilling ones, and bringing these into being. She works holistically, supporting clients to build physical, mental, emotional and spiritual practices that promote their long-term wellbeing.

Sharalyn’s loves include her family, popcorn at movie theatres, volunteering with Rainbow Refugee Committee and her mountain bike. Her self-care practices include mindfulness meditation, Kettle Bells with fit4real, dark chocolate, and regular doses of dancing,

Sharalyn has training, experience, and interest in working with individuals or couples around: 

• Surviving and thriving through major life transitions and stressors— career changes, job loss, relocation, separation or divorce
• Emotional health and well being-- dealing with grief and loss, stress reduction, depression, and anxiety, including mixed depression and anxiety, social anxiety, panic, and generalized anxiety.
• Relationships—communication, intimacy, and sexuality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and heterosexual relationships
• Healing from trauma, including childhood trauma and sexual abuse
• Living with chronic health issues—with training on the mental health issues related to HIV+