Meet the OP Counselling Team — Vancouver, BC

Empowering you to connect the puzzle pieces of your life.

Chantal Esperanza, RCC

Chantal offers trauma-informed counselling rooted in safety, compassion, and connection, supporting adults navigating trauma, addiction, chronic illness, and disconnection. She blends evidence-based practices including EMDR and relational approaches with heartfelt care, meeting clients where they are and fostering resilience, meaning, and hope. Chantal’s work centers on building a supportive, collaborative therapeutic relationship that honors your story with humility and kindness.

Areas of Expertise:
Trauma, addiction, chronic illness, disconnection, rebuilding safety and resilience.
Therapeutic Modalities:
Trauma-informed care with EMDR, narrative and compassionate approaches tailored to individual needs.
Therapy Philosophy:
Chantal believes healing grows from felt safety and supportive connection, working collaboratively to support your whole system — mind, body, and spirit — while respecting your pace and goals.

Geordie Hart, RCC

Geordie provides thoughtful, evidence-informed counselling for adults navigating trauma, addiction, life transitions, and emotional overwhelm. He blends relational and somatic awareness with strengths-based and client-centered practices, creating a supportive, grounded space where clients feel seen, understood, and empowered to shape meaningful change at their pace. Geordie’s work is rooted in curiosity, compassion, and a belief in the inherent resilience of each person.

Areas of Expertise:
Trauma, addiction, life transitions, emotional overwhelm, self-regulation.
Therapeutic Modalities:
Relational approaches, somatic awareness, strengths-based and evidence-informed practices tailored to individual goals.
Therapy Philosophy:
Geordie believes healing grows from safety, collaboration, and self-understanding, working together to integrate insight, resilience, and embodied wellbeing.

Kimia Mohammadpour, RCC-Candidate

Kimia offers compassionate, depth-oriented counselling to adults navigating identity, performance pressure, and the gap between how they appear on the outside and how they actually feel on the inside. Drawing on her own experience with immigration and family disruption, she brings genuine curiosity to understanding how the stories we carry shape the choices we make. Kimia creates a collaborative, non-judgmental space where you can show up as you are, slow down, and begin to relate to yourself differently.

Areas of Expertise: Identity and self-trust, high-performance pressure, inner critic work, immigration and cultural transitions, pattern awareness.
Therapeutic Modality: Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), supporting clients to work through emotional patterns at depth, not just manage symptoms.
Therapy Philosophy: Kimia believes real change comes from being able to stay with what is uncomfortable, in connection with another person, moving at a pace that honors both your comfort and your capacity.

Orli Paling, Founder & RCC-ACS-C

Orli offers compassionate, evidence-based therapy for adults navigating ADHD, addiction, trauma, emotional overwhelm, and life transitions. She supports clients in making sense of long-standing patterns, building emotional awareness, and developing practical tools that support meaningful, sustainable change. Orli works from a collaborative, strengths-based approach, creating a safe and respectful space where clients are supported to move at their own pace and stay firmly in the driver’s seat of their work.

Areas of Expertise:
ADHD, addiction, trauma, emotional regulation, life transitions.
Therapeutic Modalities:
Integrative, evidence-based approaches including relational, strengths-based, and insight-oriented work, tailored to each individual.
Therapy Philosophy:
Orli believes therapy works best when it is collaborative, non-judgmental, and grounded in safety—supporting clients to understand themselves more deeply and make changes that feel aligned and attainable.