The counseling process is, in many ways, like an educational experience. The individual can learn more about him/herself, but also acquires new skills. Sometimes, counseling involves learning more about a particular condition (e.g., depression, anxiety, eating disorders) by which the person is affected, so that he/she can better understand treatment options.

Sharleen Uy

Registered Counselling

Counselling can support your journey towards becoming a heart-empowered individual by expressing your unexpressed feelings shedding the layers covering the truth of who you are. Learning to listen to the wisdom of the heart and interpret our body’s signals as it speaks to us is vital to bringing balance in our lives.

The pathway to wholeness involves slowing down and listening to your body. When we align to our heart’s intuitive guidance, we lighten our being and manifest a bridge to infinite possibilities. Sharleen’s therapeutic style is heart-centered, growth-focused, and solution-oriented. The healing lens is a holistic integration of psychodynamic, mindfulness self-compassion, positive psychology & body-centered psychotherapy. Sharleen is a Registered Clinical Counsellor license #16841 with the B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellor. She earned a Master’s of Arts in Counselling (2019) from University of Seattle where she wrote a thesis on anxiety & psychotherapy with a focus on psychedelic therapy for anxiety.

With 7+ years of professional nursing experience, she has witnessed many forms of physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and psycho-spiritual suffering in areas of acute medicine, mental health and addictions, crisis stabilization, adult rehabilitation. The diverse professional background provided her with the opportunity to understand people of all walks of life and as a result, can genuinely support therapeutic healing on all levels. She acknowledges in life that blessings and challenges go hand in hand.

In other words, there’s no light without the darkness, no gifts without trauma, no happiness without grief, no right without wrong, no improvement without error, and no true love without heartache. With this realization, she accept life as a whole and therefore, embrace past, present and future. She is a mystic, minimalist, and vegan. She enjoys forest bathing, cycling, dancing, travelling, hiking & classical music. Every day she loves walking outdoor meditating, praying and singing while manifesting serenity and connecting to the soft symphony of the mother earth.