AUNA COUNSELLING
Offering safe space to build self-awareness, discover new insight, and effect meaningful change.
Individuals, Couples and Families
Men and South Asians
Everyone and anyone
Rahul Verma
MA MFT RCC
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QTBIPOC ally
He/Him/His
RCC #19864
Hello, my name is Rahul.
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I am a male, BIPOC Registered Clinical Counsellor of Punjabi Indian descent. I hold a Bachelor's in Psychology from UCLA, and a Master's in Marriage and Family Therapy from Touro University.
My path to practice has been winding and non-traditional; my lived experience affords me the ability to readily connect with and understand the needs of a diverse set of populations. At the same time, my social and cultural background affords me the ability to connect with and understand the needs of a very specific population - the Canadian South Asian community.
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I treat a variety of concerns, ranging from but not limited to:
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trauma and abuse
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depression and anxiety
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substance use
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marriage and family distress
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men’s issues
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chronic pain and illness
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My clients receive a tailored approach to care, an integration of trauma-informed humanistic and psychodynamic modalities including:
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Supportive-Expressive Psychodynamic Therapy
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Brief Psychodynamic Therapy
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Schema Therapy
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy
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My Approach
My approach to therapy is collaborative, anchored by client wisdom and expertise.
Our work together is to develop self-awareness, from awareness of the factors that contribute to your current distress, to awareness of values and beliefs that shape the ways in which you walk through life -
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We will work together to understand the nature of your current concerns, and the full extent to which these issues are affecting your life.
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We will co-design and co-author strategies to effectively mitigate the frequency and severity of your suffering.
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We will explore root causes; we will consider the possibility that your current concerns are in fact symptoms of something else, something deeper, something unconscious, something unprocessed.
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What's more, we will begin to explore what life might look like beyond the limitations of your current suffering -
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What values define a future beyond your current distress, an ideal future?
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Are you living a life in line with those values, a life in service of building that future?
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If not, why not?
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My lens is trauma-informed, rooted in the understandings provided by
polyvagal theory, attachment theory, and inhibitory learning theory. It is trauma-aware, attuned to the possible role and impact of trauma in a wide range of clinical presentations. It is trauma-sensitive, alert to the risks of exploring trauma unprepared; unethically; unsafely.