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Sydney is a couples and relationship therapist with a particular passion for helping partners strengthen connection, understand recurring patterns, and navigate conflict together. Trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples, she helps partners slow down the painful cycles that can leave them feeling misunderstood, defensive, disconnected, or alone. Her role is not to decide who is right or wrong, but to help each person feel heard and build a relationship that feels safer and more connected.

In addition to couples counselling, Sydney enjoys working with teenagers, parents, families, and individuals experiencing anxiety or relational concerns. This may include people-pleasing, boundary difficulties, overthinking, communication challenges, family stress, or recurring patterns in relationships.

With a background in biological psychology and neuropsychology, Sydney draws from research-supported approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), and attachment- and emotion-focused therapies.

In sessions, you can expect warmth, openness, practical tools, genuine curiosity, and likely a little humour and nerdiness. Sydney offers an inclusive and non-judgmental space where meaningful change can happen at a manageable pace.

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Please note that Nikki is temporarily closed to taking new clients so that she can ensure availability and continuity of care for her existing clients. New clients may book a free consultation, and/or email nikki@coachmancounselling.com to be added to the waitlist.

Nikki works with youth and adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional dysregulation, interpersonal challenges, identity concerns, self-esteem, stress and burnout, life transitions, neurodivergence, grief and loss, and chronic pain/illness. Her primary areas of focus are in supporting borderline personality disorder (BPD), anxiety and mood disorders, chronic pain and illness, and complex trauma (cPTSD).

She takes an integrative, trauma-informed approach to therapy, drawing from client-centered, CBT, DBT, ACT, IFS-informed, EFIT, psychodynamic, polyvagal, and attachment-based frameworks. Her style is gentle, validating, collaborative, neuro-affirming, and relational. Nikki welcomes individuals of all backgrounds and identities in her practice.

Therapy with Nikki is about exploring the connections between your thoughts, emotions, behaviours, relationships, and the different parts of yourself. Together, you’ll identify patterns, understand how past experiences shape the present, strengthen emotional regulation, and build more secure, compassionate relationships with yourself and others through a holistic, biopsychosocial lens.

Nikki holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology with distinction from Yorkville University and Bachelor of Science in Psychology from University of Victoria. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC (#20992). She has also completed continuing education for supporting complex trauma, anxiety and OCD, navigating harmful/abusive relationships, and has a background in crisis intervention.

Nikki is proud to offer sliding scale rates —please email to inquire: nikki@coachmancounselling.com

Please note: Direct billing is not available at this time. Receipts will be provided for insurance reimbursement.

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