About

Rhea Shroff (she/her), RTC, BFA, B.Com

I am a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) with The Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT). My approach is holistic and trauma-informed. My therapeutic training and practice is a combination of modalities including transpersonal, person-centered, gestalt, family systems and intergenerational trauma therapy integrated with somatic and mindful techniques.

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Born and raised in Mumbai, India. I moved to Vancouver, Canada at the age of 23. I have always been interested in people’s stories. Curious to know how a person has got to where they are today. Curious to understand what has happened in that person’s life till that very moment.

My journey in counselling began when I was struggling with a major life transition feeling confused, helpless and hopeless. Refusing to accept my life the way it was gave me the courage to explore all areas of my life including my own emotional landscape. I was able to reclaim parts of myself that were lost along life’s journey. I learnt to breathe into the pain and discomfort, explore it’s origins, work through it rather than disconnect from it. Living authentically has led me to create changes and adjustments that re-ignited my life and relationships infusing them with vitality and passion. 

I am here to support you and listen without judgement. Our sessions together will be a safe place to bring your full self forward. My hope is that we can work together to discover what is holding you back, building awareness and resilience every step of the way so that you can feel resourced to find the strength that lies within you to show up fully present, inspired to live or return to living a life of vitality, passion and hope. 

Education & Training:

  • Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem (Author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies), 2021

  • Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing for BIPOC, SE International, 2021

  • Basic Principles of Somatic Experiencing, SE International, 2021

  • "When the Past is Present" Healing Emotional Triggers, Limiting Beliefs and Intergenerational Trauma, Trish Walsh, Vancouver, Canada, 2021

  • Advanced Training: Fathers, Mothers, Sons and Daughters—How to Work with Inundation and Rejection with The Family Constellation Institute with Mark Wolynn (Author of It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle), San Francisco, USA, 2021

  • Inherited Family Trauma Training with The Family Constellation Institute with Mark Wolynn (Author of It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle), San Francisco, USA, 2020

  • Undoing Aloneness Trauma Training Workshop, Trish Walsh & Galen Hutcheson, Vancouver, Canada, 2020

  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Program, The Centre for Mindfulness Canada, North Vancouver, Canada, 2019

  • Trauma-Informed Practice - Level 2 Certificate, Alyson Quinn, Vancouver, Canada, 2019

  • Trauma-Informed Practice - Level 1 Certificate, Trish Walsh & Alyson Quinn, Vancouver, Canada, 2019

  • Professional Ethics, Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists, Vancouver, Canada, 2019

  • Diploma in Transpersonal Therapeutic Counselling, Clearmind International Institute, Vancouver, Canada, 2019

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Production & Design Technology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, 2002

  • Bachelor of Commerce, H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, Bombay, India, 1996.

“Just because the cloud covers the sky, it doesn’t mean that the sun stops shining.” ~ Nikkole Salter

ACCT – Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada