Shailoo Bedi is a counselling intern at MindKey Health working toward her Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) designation in British Columbia. She enjoys supporting children, youth, and parents navigating anxiety, school challenges, life transitions, and parenting stress. Drawing on both her professional background and her lived experience as a parent, Shailoo brings a calm, compassionate, and strengths-based approach to helping clients feel supported and understood.

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Andrea completed her Master of Counselling Psychology Degree from Yorkville University in 2021. She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with The British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), and a Certified Canadian Counsellor with The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). She has also completed the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training. She works with children (including those dealing with ADD, ADHD and those on the Autism spectrum), Adults (single & couples) and their families. Andrea also works with LGBTQIA2S+ individuals providing gender and sexuality affirming and inclusive counselling care.

Since moving to Victoria in 2013 she has been involved with several organizations including Stigma-Free Society (Formerly, The Bipolar Disorder Society of British Columbia) as a Mental Health group facilitator and Mental Health Recovery Partners, South Vancouver Island (Previously, The British Columbia Schizophrenia Society, Victoria Branch) as a peer support worker.

She supports solution-focused, client-centred, and recovery-oriented philosophies rooted in strength, growth, and resiliency. She believes that with the right support individuals have a boundless ability to mobilize change and growth in their lives. She builds therapeutic relationships based on trust, unconditional positive regard, and on-going rapport. She has worked with a diverse group of individuals with varying mental health.challenges including anxiety, depression, mood and/ or thought disorders and relationship concerns while they overcome barriers, build autonomy and improve their quality of their lives on their own terms.

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Beth Boyd is a counselling intern completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at Yorkville University. She brings nearly two decades of experience in education, including many years as an Inclusive Education Teacher supporting children and youth with diverse learning, emotional, behavioural, and neurodevelopmental needs.

Beth has worked closely with students, families, educators, and multidisciplinary teams to create individualized supports that foster resilience, growth, and connection. Her counselling approach is warm, collaborative, strengths-based, and solution-focused, with a focus on helping clients feel safe, understood, and empowered. Her background and training in working with neurodivergent children and youth, including ADHD and ASD, are areas of particular interest and specialization.

Outside of work, Beth enjoys time outdoors skiing, hiking, and paddleboarding with her family, walking local beaches with her dog Marley, and relaxing at home with her cat Oliver.

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Please note Dr. Cordy is not accepting new clients for counselling at this time. Please contact counselling@mindkeyhealth.com to find a clinician accepting new clients.

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Raelene is completing her Master of Counselling Psychology and looks forward to supporting children and families at MindKey Health. With over 25 years of experience as an educator, she brings extensive knowledge of child development, learning differences, and the social-emotional needs of students. She has experience supporting students and families in navigating classroom challenges, including collaboration around Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and school-based supports.

Raelene takes a person-centred, strengths-based approach to counselling and integrates mindfulness and social-emotional learning into her work. Her approach is trauma-informed, relational, and collaborative, with an emphasis on supporting clients’ capacity for growth and change. She places a strong value on connection and views the therapeutic relationship as central to meaningful progress.

She is passionate about creating a warm, inclusive, and culturally humble space where children and families feel heard, understood, and empowered. Her work draws on resilience-based approaches, and she is particularly interested in supporting clients navigating challenges related to ADHD, anxiety, depression, and emotional regulation. She tailors her approach to meet each client’s unique needs, supporting skill development, self-awareness, and confidence.

In her spare time, Raelene loves to be adventuring in the mountains, forests, and beaches with her family and her puppy.

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Brooke is working toward her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at the University of Victoria. She has worked one-on-one with youth as a Youth Resident Support Worker and as a Personal Support and Inclusion Worker. In these roles, she has helped young people with learning disabilities, school challenges, neurodiversity such as ADHD and Autism, and issues like anxiety and depression. Brooke has also volunteered as a Director of Resource and Peer Support in the community, supporting adults through their unique challenges at various stages of life. She looks forward to bringing her knowledge and insights from supporting both young people and adults into her counselling internship. In her free time, Brooke enjoys playing soccer, hiking, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

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Allie Szwender holds a Bachelor of Science in Recreational Therapy from Dalhousie University and a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. Allie has a background of mental health and addictions work, as well as an extensive background of 10 years working in the educational system. She has worked with individuals with a variety of mental health issues including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, and phobias. Having a deep understanding of the complexity and developmental stages that children and their families endure, she is a strong believer in providing support throughout the transitional phases of life as they present strong opportunities for growth and self-exploration. Her background in recreation also makes Allie a strong believer in health and wellness as a means to improve everyone’s lifestyle and mental health. Allie is a strong believer in fostering an inclusive and non-judgemental environment to increase one’s well-being. She aims to help her clients introspectively self-discover their own abilities, cultivate independence in their own thinking, create stronger relationships with others and themselves, as well as understand that emotional work and learning is a life-long journey. Allie brings a fun and personable approach to her practice to ensure that her clients feel comfortable, safe, and supported as they explore their emotions, thoughts, and concerns. Allie derives her therapeutic approach from several evidence-based modalities that are best suited to meet her client’s needs. Incorporating techniques from mindfulness-based behavioural therapy, person-centered therapy, solutions-focused therapy, emotion focused therapy and strengths based approached, Allie creates a unique and personalized therapeutic environment for each individual.

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Emily has 20 years experience as an Inclusive Education teacher and ceramic artist working with children and youth. Emily is also a school counsellor at Montessori Academy for K-grade 8. Emily uses different types of creative making approaches in her practice alongside talk therapy. Her counselling approach comes from a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour therapy and Solution Focused therapy lens. Additionally, she is currently working towards ADHD certification (ADHD-CCSP) for adolescents-adults.

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Welcome, I’m Hannah. I am a counselling intern and graduate student at the University of Victoria in the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology (Double Major), from Thompson Rivers University.

My approach to counselling is informed by a deeply held belief in the possibility of change, and in the benefit of relational, collaborative psychotherapy. In my practice, I draw upon resilience-based therapeutic approaches. My areas of focus include supporting children, youth, and adults with concerns encompassing anxiety, neurodivergence, eating disorders, grief, and social-emotional difficulties. My approach is grounded within a trauma-informed, culturally humble lens, fostering a safe, welcoming space for all. In addition to clinical work, my research interests include psychosocial experiences of chronic illnesses and eating disorders.

I look forward to continuing to learn and grow as a clinician throughout my counselling internship; it is an honour to do this work.

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