Annette Kasahara

Annette Kasahara’s path to private practice was shaped by decades of work across Canada — from supporting teenagers and families in Saskatoon and Ottawa to building counselling practices in Kelowna and Abbotsford, where she also taught counselling and interpersonal communication at the university level. That breadth of experience — school systems, community agencies, family services, facilitated grief work during organizational closures — gave her a grounded, unhurried understanding of how people get stuck and what it actually takes to move forward.

Now based in White Rock, BC, she works with individuals, couples, and families navigating depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, abuse recovery, and the particular exhaustion that comes when work follows someone home through every notification and after-hours message, leaving no clear edge between professional and personal life. She holds the Registered Clinical Counsellor designation and offers sessions online as well as in person.

At the centre of her practice is a straightforward conviction: that most of what brings people into counselling — the self-doubt, the fractured relationships, the patterns that don’t serve them — is bound up in the long work of self-acceptance. Annette meets clients at whatever point they’ve reached on that path, bringing her own experience of loss, reinvention, and connection to that work.