About Us
At West Coast Adult ADHD, we recognize that ADHD requires in-depth specialized treatment that can only be delivered by clinicians who have extensive training in evidence-based treatment protocols for ADHD. Our assessments are evidence-based and follow the CADDRA guidelines to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective treatment planning. Treatment is a collaborative process where we work together to address specific strengths and challenges, creating a plan that is individualized and supportive of each person’s unique needs. ADHD is often accompanied by other conditions such as anxiety and depression. These co-occurring conditions will also be addressed in a comprehensive treatment plan designed to help you overcome obstacles, reach your goals, and realize your true potential.
Most of our clinicians have lived experience with ADHD.
They understand the challenges firsthand, and are here to help you navigate them with compassion and clarity.
Dr. C Remi
Remi is a Nurse Practitioner with over 14 years of experience and a focus on ADHD, women’s health, and lifestyle-related conditions.
Remi is a seasoned Nurse Practitioner with over 14 years of clinical experience across diverse settings including critical care, emergency, remote communities, Indigenous health, and corporate wellness. She holds multiple certifications and is board-certified in lifestyle medicine as of 2019.
Her practice emphasizes the connection between lifestyle and chronic conditions, with a special interest in ADHD, peri/menopausal care, and conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and high cholesterol. As someone with ADHD herself, Remi understands both the challenges and strengths it brings, allowing her to offer personalized, empathetic care tailored to each patient’s unique lifestyle and needs.
Lisa Willow
Lisa has been researching and learning about ADHD since 2010 when her son was diagnosed. Shortly thereafter she came to realize her own ADHD. Lisa noticed a lack of resources for both children and adults and has since become passionate about developing and providing services.
Lisa is a Registered Social Worker with the BC College of Social Work (BCCSW). She holds a Master of Social Work Degree and has specialized training as an ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP), along with completion of CADDRA’s, Evidenced Based ADHD Program for Health Care Providers. She is trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Lisa has worked in health care and mental health outpatient services since 2010 where she provides strengths based client centred care to individuals with a variety of mental health conditions.
Lisa’s approach is Holistic, Integrative, and Compassionate. She draws on several modalities and includes a whole person approach to healing and personal growth. This can include clinical interventions, CBT, DBT, nutrition, exercise, relaxation and mindfulness, self- compassion exercises, creativity. Collaborative and client centered means working together to move through challenges, to align with personal values and to live a life filled with meaning and purpose. Lisa has a background in holistic nutrition, natural health, yoga and mindfulness practices and creative arts. In her spare time she enjoys walking her dog in the forest, cycling, art, creative projects, comedy, and live music.
Samantha Southwell
Samantha is a Nurse Practitioner with over 15 years of nursing experience and a special focus on ADHD, autism, and mental wellness.
Samantha is a compassionate and highly experienced Nurse Practitioner with a strong foundation in mental health. With over 15 years of nursing experience, she has worked in a wide range of clinical areas including primary care, cardiac care, chronic disease management, house calls for the elderly, and acute adult care. She also has an academic background in research and physiology.
Samantha’s approach to ADHD care is rooted in empathy, collaboration, and evidence-informed practice. She prioritizes mental wellness and empowerment in her work with neurodivergent individuals, drawing on her clinical expertise and commitment to person-centred care.
Outside of work, Samantha enjoys cycling, reading, gardening, cooking, and spending time with her husband and two young children.
April Watson
She currently works as a supervisor of occupational therapists, mental health workers and peer support workers and is a member of COTBC and CADDRA. She has completed VCH leadership training course, YMind mindfulness training for anxiety, based on Acceptance and Commitment therapy through YMCA and CADDRA’s evidenced based ADHD training for health care providers. She has many years of experience facilitating groups and was awarded a leadership award for her contributions to mental health in 2007. She received recognition in the North Shore news for her role in the creation of a social enterprise coffee shop, hiring people who have mental health issues and also helped create the first peer support program on the North Shore. Through work and her personal life, she has experience working with ADHD. She is a mother of two teenage girls, enjoys spending time with her family, loves walking her dog in nature, and doing yoga.
Nadina Dodd
Nadina Dodd is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Art Therapist with lived experience of ADHD. She offers a holistic, collaborative, strengths-based and compassionate approach when working with clients and strives to provide a safe and respectful therapeutic relationship
She has 7 years of experience supporting individuals with ADHD from diverse backgrounds and is a strong advocate for acceptance and education around neurodiversity. She can help you learn and practice new skills and strategies that support your brain functioning, navigate relationships, understand and manage emotions, and more!
Many of her clients are ’creatives’, young professionals and college/university students, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, newcomers, international students and people from the BIPOC community.
Her support is social justice oriented and, when you work with her, she will consider your social and cultural context (religion, sexual orientation, age, abilities, gender, life stage, etc) as well as the attitudes, systems and structures around you that can contribute to problems (ie; ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc).
Whitney Nelson
Whitney is a Nurse Practitioner with a passion for person-centred ADHD care, particularly in women’s health and hormonal impacts.
Whitney is a Nurse Practitioner with a special interest in ADHD diagnosis and management, women’s health, and hormones. She completed her Master of Nursing – Family Nurse Practitioner program at Athabasca University in 2021, shortly before receiving her own ADHD diagnosis. This experience marked the beginning of a personal journey that brought her clarity, acceptance, and insight into ADHD-related challenges such as procrastination, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and burnout.
Her lived experience, especially as a woman diagnosed in adulthood, deeply informs her clinical practice. Whitney is committed to providing care that is relational, thorough, and grounded in current best practices. She is a member of CADDRA and has completed several ADHD certification programs and educational seminars.
In her spare time, Whitney enjoys running, hiking, surfing, and listening to life coach podcasts. She spends most of her free time with her husband, two young boys, and their Scottish Terrier, Buzz.
Tracy Bergman
Tracy is a Registered Social Worker and Certified ADHD Life Coach with extensive experience as a mental health and substance use counsellor.
Tracy is a Registered Social Worker and Certified ADHD Life Coach with extensive experience as a mental health and substance use counsellor. She has completed CADDRA’s Evidence Based ADHD Program for Health Care Providers and has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She has facilitated group workshops for over 17 years, including Respectful Relationships programming, and has a history of activism in her community and abroad.
Tracy has been dedicated to learning about ADHD since her own diagnosis at the age of 50. She understands the complexities of living with ADHD at a mature age, and can therefore use both personal and professional experience to strengthen her connection with clients and build a mutually collaborative relationship. Tracy is passionate about using ACT approaches to care because she has seen great success in her clients’ abilities to make behavior changes when they are strengths-based and grounded in personal values. She utilizes self-compassion interventions as a foundation for improving clients’ wellness and overall life satisfaction. Tracy also enjoys working with people to enhance their communication skills and develop their own unique leadership style.
In her spare time, Tracy enjoys spending time with family, friends and her dog Micah, practicing yoga and her ukelele. She can often be found hiking trails and taking long walks in her neighborhood, or hyper focusing on her new special interest of the week. Or neither, and watching Netflix with her husband and a bowl of popcorn.
Audrey Kwok
Audrey is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) registered with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). Audrey holds a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, a Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing, and a Masters of Nursing degree as a NP. She has always held a passion regarding human psychology.
At the same time, she knew she wanted to pursue a profession helping people. As a Registered Nurse (RN), she had the privilege caring for those being treated for leukemia, and receiving bone marrow transplants (BMT). It is here where Audrey realized that she valued the unique rapport between herself and her patients. Today, as an NP, Audrey continues to enjoy forming therapeutic rapport with her patients while overseeing their care as a primary care provider.
In the primary care sector, her focus has been predominantly on woman’s health, sexual health, and mental health. After witnessing the effects of the pandemic on her patients’ mental health, Audrey sought out additional training from CADDRA’s ADHD program to better understand and assist her patients. At the West Coast Adult ADHD clinic, Audrey sees and assesses all walks of life to help bring better clarity to their symptoms, and guide them forward to proper treatment. She otherwise values time outside work with her husband and dog, regularly goes to the gym, and eats what Vancouver has to offer.
Eliisha Merz
Eliisha is a Nurse Practitioner with a special interest in ADHD and RSD, bringing both clinical expertise and lived experience to her practice.
Eliisha is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) with a special interest in the diagnosis and management of ADHD. Prior to becoming an NP, she worked for seven years as a critical care Registered Nurse, developing a strong foundation in assessment and clinical decision-making—skills she has continued to apply in her NP roles in primary care and cardiac surgery over the past five years.
Her interest in ADHD began when she identified a gap in support and resources for ADHD within her family practice. Motivated to bridge this gap, she pursued additional ADHD-specific training and was later diagnosed with ADHD herself. This dual perspective—both professional and personal—fuels her commitment to providing compassionate, empowering care.
Outside of work, Eliisha enjoys hiking with her husband, infant son, and their two Frenchtons, Gordon and Luna. She also loves snowboarding, painting, and experimenting with homemade mac and cheese recipes.
Michelle Austin
Michelle is a vibrant, metis, Registered Psychotherapist who has been practicing for 15 years with extensive experience in providing holistic and culturally sensitive services to children and their families.
She holds a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, a specialized bachelor of science degree with a major in psychology and numerous certificates in the field of mental health services, ranging from Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Emotion Focused Therapy.
Her passion is helping individuals and families overcome obstacles that are holding them back, gaining a greater knowledge of who they are and where they fit on their journey through life. It is this passion to meet clients where they are today that she brings into her sessions in order to help those struggling. She has worked with countless clients navigating ADHD and is able to resonate with her clients through the lens of her own familial experiences navigating childhood and adult ADHD.
When she is not working , she finds herself raising a busy family, perpetually renovating her forever home, and can often be found in the wee hours of the day in her garden where she finds herself grounded and one with nature, feeling the soil between her toes and fingers.
Jessica Williams
Jessica has over ten years experience as a counsellor and has assisted hundreds of clients by incorporating a combination of Shame Resilience, CBT, Family Systems as well as other practices relevant to each client’s unique situation.
Jessica has over ten years experience as a counsellor and has assisted hundreds of clients by incorporating a combination of Shame Resilience, CBT, Family Systems as well as other practices relevant to each client’s unique situation. She is trained and qualified to help you address many issues including ADHD, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, communication skills, shame, grief, life transitions, career issues and many other concerns as well.
EMDR therapy is available upon request for clients wanting to promote the innate and organic drive towards healing their brain — supporting your brain’s natural desire towards emotional health 🙂
She provides clients with opportunities to experience different perspectives and make their own connections–as improvement is as much about unlearning that which no longer serves us, as it is about acquiring new tools.
Many of us were not provided with the tools to navigate our complex internal and external systems. However, she believes our human capacity for compassion and connection is healing; and that we can achieve the desired balance of closeness and independence within our relationships.
As a client you are in the driver’s seat and she is in the passenger’s seat. Jessica prides herself in co-creating a strong client-counsellor therapeutic connection. Her goal is to provide a safe and nurturing environment that will empower clients to turn their obstacles into opportunities, clearing the way for improved relationships and emotional health.
Education & Training:
Masters of Counselling Psychology
Registered Clinical Counsellor with BCACC
Bachelor of Education (with distinction)
Los Angeles Healing Shame Workshop
EMDR Trained: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Skills Training
CTRI: Trauma – Strategies for Resilience
ADHD Training and Workshops
Family and Internal Systems Theory
Evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
The Language of Letting Go: Melody Beattie
Joanne Gobeil
Joanne is a Canadian Certified Counsellor #12918 and can see clients in BC, AB, SK, MB, NL, NWT, NU, and YT. Joanne has certificates in CBT-M, exposure therapy, Gottman couples therapy, EMDR, DBT, play therapy, and autism.
Joanne has completed her doctoral-level courses in grief counselling and is working on her thesis. Joanne has over 20 years of experience covering a wide range of issues including AD/HD, Loss, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, PTSD, ASD, OCD, etc. Joanne works with children, teens, adults, couples, and parents wanting to better understand and support children with AD/HD.
Regardless of all the training that I have taken and years of experience, my clients are the experts on themselves. My role is to use the training and experience that I have to provide my clients with the necessary tools to help them navigate through their journey and find self-fulfillment. I take pride in tailoring my approach to each of the clients that I am working with as there is no “one size fits all” in counselling.
Jenny Simpson
Jenny has worked in the public sector for over 20 years with adults, young adults, couples, LGBTQ+ folks, families, children and adolescents as a teacher, addiction support worker and now as a Clinical Counsellor.
Jenny has worked in the public sector for over 20 years with adults, young adults, couples, LGBTQ+ folks, families, children and adolescents as a teacher, addiction support worker and now as a Clinical Counsellor.
Her training has been focused on Trauma, Post-Traumatic Growth, Motivational Interviewing and Self Compassion.
She conducts coaching, accountability sessions as well as therapeutic counselling including EMDR.
Mahan Khalsa
Mahan Khalsa (RTC) is a counsellor, coach, and group facilitator who helps people with ADHD build resilience, self-understanding, and practical tools in safe, supportive spaces.
Mahan Khalsa is a therapeutic counsellor (RTC-c), holistic coach, and group facilitator with over 25 years of experience in embodied practices that support nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and personal growth. She brings a grounded, compassionate presence to her work with individuals and groups—integrating somatic modalities, client-centered care, and trauma-informed approaches.
As the group facilitator, Mahan holds safe, inclusive spaces where clients can feel seen, heard, and supported in navigating the complexities of ADHD. Her style is relational and non-pathologizing, informed by both evidence-based methods and lived wisdom from decades of yoga, parenting, and personal development.
Mahan believes in the power of group work to promote co-regulation, shared learning, and belonging. She supports clients in developing greater self-understanding, emotional resilience, and practical tools for managing ADHD in daily life.
Outside of her professional work, Mahan loves to travel, spend time with friends, and a nature lover who can often be found hiking, skiing, or quietly attuning to the beauty of the present moment.
Caleb Shearer
Caleb Shearer, MSW, RSW is a Vancouver-based social worker specializing in ADHD, trauma, anxiety, and addiction. He integrates counselling, ADHD coaching, and trauma-informed practices to support emotional regulation, resilience, and sustainable systems for daily life.
Caleb Shearer, MSW, RSW is a compassionate and experienced Registered Social Worker based in Vancouver, BC, specializing in the treatment of ADHD, trauma, anxiety, and addiction. With a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Victoria, Caleb brings an integrative, trauma-informed approach to his work – combining CBT, narrative therapy, ADHD coaching, somatic techniques, and breath-centered practices to support immediate symptom relief and long-term emotional regulation.
Caleb has extensive experience working with adults and youth with ADHD and understands how ADHD often intersects with trauma, anxiety, and substance use. He provides specialized ADHD counselling and coaching that focuses on executive functioning, emotional regulation, shame resilience, and building sustainable systems that work with the ADHD brain – not against it.
In addition to his clinical work with individuals, groups, and families, Caleb is the creator of several trauma-focused and ADHD-sensitive mental health and addiction programs. He developed the Guard-Recovery Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu program, an innovative, trauma-informed martial arts curriculum that supports nervous system regulation, confidence building, and real-world coping skills through movement and discipline.
Caleb is deeply passionate about creating safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces for neurodivergent individuals to grow, heal, and thrive. His work is grounded in empathy, collaboration, and a belief in every person’s capacity for transformation.
Cataya Caven
Cataya is part of our clinical team. Full bio coming soon.