I’m Baya (they/them), an AuDHD, queer, non-binary counsellor offering online neurodiversity-affirming therapy to clients across British Columbia. My lived experience deeply informs my practice. With deep respect and gratitude, I live and work as a counsellor on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. I honour their enduring connection to the land, waters, and community, and I am committed to ongoing reflection and action toward decolonizing my practice.

My counselling approach is rooted in acceptance, curiosity, respect, empowerment, and neurodiversity-affirming care. I am committed to anti-oppressive and decolonial practice, and to remaining accountable by actively reflecting on my own social location, privilege, and biases, and welcoming feedback on my language and actions as part of our work together. I centre your lived experience, cultural knowledge, and ways of knowing as expertise, while working to soften and reduce traditional therapist–client power dynamics. I recognize the harm many Eurocentric and pathologizing models have caused, and intentionally integrate frameworks that move beyond them, valuing relationship, reciprocity, and collective healing. I seek to recognize and address the systemic forms of oppression that impact neurodivergent people and their intersectional experiences of marginalization, including race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, disability, and socio-economic status. As a polyamorous person, I also bring an understanding of expansive ways of relating outside of mono-normative and colonial frameworks. This is a sex-positive space where pleasure, liberation, and all forms of intimacy and relational expression are welcome.

I Specialize in: - Autism - AuDHD - Gender identity & sexual orientation - Polyamory & non-monogamous relationships - Chronic illness - Burnout - Trauma - Recently identified neurodivergence - Individuals questioning if they are Autistic or AuDHD - Anxiety - Depression - Unique lifestyles - Executive functioning

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I’m Baya (they/them), an AuDHD, queer, non-binary counsellor offering online neurodiversity-affir... Read More

As an Autistic/ADHD counsellor, my approach is strengths-based, intersectional, and neurodiversity-affirmative. I believe that my role is to work alongside the individual to meet their therapy goals. The first step I take with any client is to develop a positive connection to help the client feel safe as it is only when we feel safe that healing can begin to occur. I am trained in Brainspotting, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems.

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Hi, my name is Selena, nice to meet you! Now that we have been introduced, let me tell you a bit about my journey to discovering my AuDHD self. I was 22 years old and in my final year of undergraduate studies at university. I was struggling at the time, facing burnout, bouts of insomnia and believing that I was alone in feeling this way and that life was just easier for everyone but me. After doing some of my own research, I found that a lot of my symptoms aligned with ADHD. I had to advocate for myself to be seen and formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist.

So that’s it, right? I realized that was in fact not it, and I was on a lifelong journey of figuring out how to best work with my neurodivergent mind. I began dealing with the cycle of acceptance that some individuals who were diagnosed later in life tend to deal with. Sometimes I wished it could be different, and then I had a lightbulb moment. It was difficult because I was still trying to conform to a neurotypical society, fighting with myself instead of working with my mind, as hyper and racing as it can be. I began working on adapting my life, working with a therapist who specializes with ADHD, building systems to help with everyday functioning, setting reminders, and reorganizing my life to accommodate the bursts of energy and the days of low motivation. I found friends who were also neurodivergent and became a safe space for me to unmask and be my authentic self. I also came to realize that I had only begun to embrace half of myself, as I am also a self-diagnosed autistic about a year ago. I am still learning and working on myself, and I have made a lifelong commitment to it. Exploring how to navigate life, but with the support, I have found life much more enjoyable and manageable.

I decided to pursue a career in psychology to help support others who may be experiencing similar struggles, using a person-centred approach to focus on the individual and personalize therapy to best support them and their needs. I am excited for this opportunity to work with the neurodivergent population and support individuals as they strive to be their authentic selves and find ways to work with their minds. Thank you for hearing my story, and I hope to hear about yours!

Hi, my name is Selena, nice to meet you! Now that we have been introduced, let me tell you a bit ... Read More