Our counsellors come from different backgrounds and cultures with overlapping identities that inform our ability to better understand our clients with diverse lived experiences and racial and cultural identities.  In varied ways, some of us have lost many layers of identity and who we used to be.

Our team has lived experience of marginalization, cultural and systemic oppression and racialization within cultures that uphold strict social norms and discrimination related such things as to gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation.  Our team has lived experience of immigration, living in countries torn by religious and political conflict, and holding two or more cultural backgrounds.

We are ever growing in our understanding of how the intersectionality of our identities impact our experiences of power and oppression; including our socio-economic status, immigration status, place, race, history, ability, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, religious beliefs and ethnicity.  We understand that these parts of identity contribute to a wide variety of experience within two-spirit, lesbian, gay, queer, transgender, intersex and non-binary communities.