Maryam Aleyasin – Intern Counsellor
Intern Counsellor
She/Her/Hers
Maryam Aleyasin is a counselling intern who works with adults, immigrants, and parents navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, identity challenges, and major life transitions. As an immigrant herself, Maryam brings a lived understanding of the adjustment process, cultural transitions, and the emotional complexities that often accompany starting over in a new country.
Maryam has experience providing counselling in both Farsi and English and has supported clients from diverse cultural backgrounds and across different stages of life. In addition to her counselling work, she has experience supporting individuals in crisis through a national crisis support service and has been involved in community-based services supporting older adults and families. These roles have strengthened her ability to work with clients across ages, cultures, and life circumstances with sensitivity and care.
Her approach to counselling is collaborative, person-centred, and culturally responsive, grounded in trauma-informed care. Maryam integrates CBT- and DBT-informed strategies, mindfulness-based practices, and narrative and solution-focused approaches, tailoring therapy to each client’s values, cultural context, and individual needs. She strives to create a safe, respectful space where clients feel heard, supported, and understood.
Maryam is committed to supporting clients as they build emotional awareness, resilience, and self-compassion. She believes healing is fostered through meaningful connection, cultural understanding, and trust, and she works alongside clients to help them move forward with greater clarity, balance, and confidence.
“It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.” — Carl Rogers.
Services
- Individual Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Individual Counselling (Virtual)
- Individual Counselling (Telephone)
- Couples/Relationship Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Couples/Relationship Counselling (Virtual)
- Co-Parenting/Parenting Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Co-Parenting/Parenting Counselling (Virtual)
- Family Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Family Counselling (Virtual)
- First Language Counselling
- Walk & Talk/Outdoor Counselling
Ages Served
- Ages 14 +
Languages Offered
- Farsi
Support Topics
- Adapting to lifestyle changes and aging
- Addressing loneliness and isolation
- Anger management
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Authentic Self-Discovery: Unmasking Who You Truly Are
- Behaviour support services
- Body image issues
- Body positivity
- Building resilience in later life
- Chronic illness management
- Chronic pain management
- Climate anxiety
- Complex Trauma / C-PTSD
- Coping skills
- Coping with health changes
- Depression
- Discovering Purpose and Meaning in Life
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders / Maladaptive eating
- Emotional disturbances
- Exercise planning
- Facing end-of-life issues
- Family conflict
- Family dynamics
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Internet addiction
- Life coaching
- Life management issues
- Life transitions
- Loss
- Meal planning
- Meditation
- Mood disorders
- Navigating family and caregiver relationships
- Obesity
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Overcoming phobias, such as fear of death
- Parenting education
- Parenting issues (including child-rearing and education)
- Peer relationships
- Rehabilitation from trauma
- Relationship and marriage conflict
- School issues
- Self-esteem issues
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Sports performance
- Spirituality (non-emergency spiritual issues)
- Stress management
- Suicidal ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
- Transitioning into retirement
- Video game addiction
Therapeutic Approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Person-Centered Therapy (PCT)
- Psychodynamic Approach
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)