Galina Freed

Galina Freed believes that real change begins when people feel understood in the full complexity of who they are. An EMDR-trained Registered Clinical Counsellor based in Vancouver, Galina works with individuals who are carrying the weight of trauma, burnout, identity questions, and the particular exhaustion that comes from spending hours in back-to-back video calls with no room left to simply be still. Their practice holds space for the ways that modern work has blurred every boundary between output and rest, and for how much that costs the nervous system over time.

Galina works primarily with immigrants, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQIA+ communities, helping them move through graduate school burnout, workplace stress and trauma, moral injury, ADHD challenges, and the layered work of gender and sexual identity exploration. Religious trauma and the experience of navigating queer relationships are also central threads of their practice.

Alongside a private practice, Galina supports international students as a mental health counsellor at a Vancouver college. Their academic grounding includes a BSc in Psychology from York University and a Master of Counselling from Athabasca University, where their research examined mental health stigma. Sessions are available online.