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
QTBIPOC ally
He/Him/His
RCC #19864
Hello, my name is Rahul.
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.
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
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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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
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Gottman Method Couples Therapy
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.
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.