Amar Chhina, MCP-AT , CCC, MAS, BVSc and AH.
Amar excels at working with couples, families, youth, international students, artists, creatives and LGBTQ people. He works as a family and grief counsellor as well as with anyone struggling with depression, anxiety, life transitions, and substance use.
Who Amar Works With:
Couples
Families
Youth
Adults
LGBTQ
Artists and Creatives
Issues Amar Works With:
Anxiety
Depression
Substance Use
Grief
Pet Loss Grief
Life Transitions
Relationship Struggles
Amar’s background and training:
Amar completed a Master’s of Counselling Psychology: Art Therapy from Adler University, Vancouver, one of the best schools for counselling psychology in BC. He has a multidisciplinary academic background, which includes psychology, visual and expressive arts, veterinary medicine, and administrative sciences, which has enriched his professional and personal development.
As a clinical counsellor, art therapist, veterinary doctor/technician, and artist, he intends to embrace all roles /identities in his journey as a part of purposeful living and self-mastery.
Growing constantly through the vivid experiences a mythic eclectic lens to living brings, he desires to continue dancing to the mystic songs of the unknown.
Types of therapy Amar works with:
Amar’s theoretical orientation is based on integrated approaches of trauma-informed, person-centred and Jungian theories. He aims to support clients’ overall health through a biopsychosocial-spiritual lens along with the framework of intersectionality and the philosophy of phenomenology with interventions and directives based on art therapy, meditation and mindfulness. Cultural sensitivity is a value that he strongly integrates with his development as a counsellor. Diversity and inclusion are integral components in his practice as a counsellor.
As a clinical counsellor and art therapist, he brings various mediums of visual and expressive arts to help clients experience a similar connection to express what’s within and outside of their consciousness.
A little more about Amar:
Amar was born in Amritsar, India. He speaks English, Punjabi and Hindi and is happy to offer therapy in all three languages.