Find the team member that best suits your needs.
Mikayla St Onge MACP, MCP, RCC
Individuals / Youth & Young Adults / Adults / Attachment-Based / Narrative
Mikayla wholeheartedly views people as insightful beings, capable of self growth, healing unhelpful patterns and writing their own story. With this in mind, Mikayla offers a genuinely curious, nonjudgmental, and understanding posture from which people can feel heard and supported.
As an integrative psychotherapist, Mikayla combines aspects of attachment, trauma-informed, and narrative therapies, to explore and tend to, how early relationships and experiences shape the way we see ourselves and the world, our self esteem, beliefs, the way we interact with others, protective mechanisms, and other frameworks and patterns.
Mikayla’s professional experience involves working with anxiety and stress, relational difficulties, grief and loss, challenging life events and transitions, and trauma and adversity. Mikayla is especially passionate about building awareness, nervous system regulation, nurturing deep wounds, re-wiring maladaptive patterns, and building strong foundations from which clients can grow and flourish. With a focus on somatic and mindfulness-based practices, Mikayla supports individuals to become more attuned to their emotional triggers, reactions, thought patterns, beliefs, and somatic responses; fostering enhanced self-awareness, confidence, and resilience. Additionally, Mikayla has a special interest in working with youth experiencing life transitions and big emotions.
Passionate about working with vulnerable populations, communities, and families, Mikayla utilizes a trauma-informed lens and strength-based approach; creating a space dedicated to promoting safety, nurturance, compassion, exploration, and autonomy. Mikayla aims to tailor her work to each individual's needs by embodying a holistic approach that seeks to explore a larger, depathologizing, and contextualized understanding.
Mikayla offers in-person and virtual appointments at our Salmon Arm location.
Chloe Chiorando, MC, CCCQ
Youth / Individuals / Families / Couples
Chloe is deeply passionate about serving others and brings over a decade of experience in mental health and social justice roles. Her counselling approach is grounded in warmth, compassion, and lively energy, with a strong appreciation for relationships as a foundation for growth and healing. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and has completed her master’s in counselling psychology.
Chloe’s worldview is rooted in dignity, empathy, genuine connection, and curiosity. She embraces the belief that we are always evolving and feels honored to sit with others during their most vulnerable moments, fostering trust and safety in every session. Her integrated therapeutic approach draws from person-centered, narrative therapy, feminist theory, systems theory, Internal Family Systems, and holistic interventions. She also incorporates solution-focused and brief therapies when appropriate to support meaningful and practical change. Chloe works with a wide range of concerns, including grief, identity changes, life transitions, anxiety, shame, trauma, depression, self-confidence, self-discovery, and existential anxiety.
Outside of counselling, Chloe is an avid reader whose love of literature informs her perspective and keeps her connected to developments in psychology, sociology, anthropology, and history. She enjoys spending time outside with her dogs and admiring our beautiful province. She is grateful to live and work as an uninvited settler on the unceded lands of the Secwepemc Peoples.
Chloe is currently accepting new clients and offers both in-person sessions in Kamloops, Salmon Arm and virtual appointments.
Desiree Raposo, RCC, MC, CCC
Individuals / Couples / Families / EMDR / OEI / Attachment-Focused Counselling
Desiree Raposo is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Canadian Certified Counsellor with a Master of Counselling degree. She works with individuals, couples, and families, offering a warm, curious, and holistic approach to therapy. Desiree recognizes that reaching out for support can feel like a significant step and prioritizes creating a space where clients feel comfortable, understood, and accepted.
Desiree practices from a trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and mind-body perspective. Her work considers how our experiences, emotions, and relationships shape the ways we learn to navigate and respond to the world around us. She helps clients understand long-standing patterns with compassion and curiosity while finding new ways of responding that feel more supportive and aligned with how they want to live.
Before becoming a counsellor, Desiree spent many years working in massage therapy and yoga. This background strengthened her appreciation for the connection between the body, emotions, and nervous system. She integrates somatic awareness and nervous-system-informed practices alongside talk therapy, depending on what feels most supportive for each client. Her clinical work is informed by Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT/EFIT), EMDR, Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS)-informed parts work, and mindfulness-based approaches.
Desiree has a particular interest in working with trauma, attachment, and relationships, while also supporting clients through a range of emotional and personal challenges. Her work often involves exploring patterns such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-criticism, difficulty setting boundaries, and recurring challenges in relationships.
Outside of her counselling work, Desiree lives in the small community of Malakwa in the Shuswap, where she feels most at home in the mountains and forests. She spends her free time mountain biking, snowboarding, practising yoga, and exploring creative pursuits. These parts of her life have shaped her appreciation for slowing down, reconnecting with herself, and finding her own way forward.
Desiree is currently accepting new clients and offers in-person and virtual appointments.
Emily Bostrom, MNTCW, RCC
Individuals / Youth Adults / Women / Seniors / Life Transitions / Issues of Violence / Narrative Therapy / Somatic Stories
Emily offers both traditional and alternative approaches to counselling, bridging somatic and energy work with narrative therapy. As a narrative therapist, she brings an open mind, curiosity, and deep respect for the dignity and worth of every person she works with.
She provides individual counselling for adults of all ages, with a special focus on young adults, women, and seniors. Her areas of practice include identity exploration, life transitions, violence and abuse, substance use, and grief, including non-typical grief.
With a background in mental health, human resources, mind–body practices, and years of rock climbing around the world, Emily brings a unique and well-rounded perspective to her work. Her approach is collaborative and client-centered, rooted in the belief that healing happens when we feel deeply seen and heard at our own pace.
Alongside talking therapy, Emily offers Somatic Stories — gentle mind–body sessions based in Chinese Medicine. These sessions weave together narrative exploration with muscle testing of the 14 meridians, identifying blocks and priorities in the body, and rebalancing in alignment with your intentions. This approach integrates the body’s wisdom with your personal story, creating space for meaningful healing.
Emily is passionate about helping people tell their stories in ways that make them stronger. She creates a safe and respectful space to explore your experiences, uncover what is most meaningful to you, and challenge expectations that no longer serve you. Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or seeking greater clarity, Emily walks alongside you as you find your own path forward.
Emily offers virtual and in-person appointments at our Salmon Arm location
Shannon Ritchie, MC, RCC-ACS, RCC
Couples / Families / Clinical Supervision / Assessments / Views of the Child Reports
Shannon is the founder and Clinical Director of Currents Counselling, where she leverages over a decade of post-masters experience to support couples and families. With a deep understanding of relationship dynamics, she has worked extensively with highly conflicted couples, those navigating separation and divorce, and families facing complex issues. Her background includes addressing concerns related to violence and conducting clinical risk assessments.
Recognizing that each relationship is unique, Shannon employs a collaborative approach tailored to the specific needs of the couples and families she serves. This emphasis on individualization allows her to provide effective support and facilitate healing in her client’s most important relationships.
In addition to her direct counselling services, Shannon is certified to complete risk assessments and Section 211 Reports, such as Hear the Child and Views of the Child, available in Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and virtually. She is also an Approved Clinical Supervisor through the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, enhancing her commitment to guiding emerging professionals in the field.
Shannon holds a master's degree in counselling and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), and is an approved clinical supervisor with the BCACC (RCC-ACS)
Offering virtual counselling appointments and limited in-person availability in Salmon Arm.
Views of the Child Reports available in person in Kamloops and Salmon Arm.
Zakary Zarichney, MSW, RSW, RCC
Clinical Lead – Currents Clinical Counselling, Salmon Arm & Langford/Victoria
Individuals / Couples & Families / EMDR & IFS / Assessments
Zakary is a Registered Social Worker and Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master of Social Work degree. He works with individuals, couples, and families, providing personalized support grounded in evidence-based and holistic approaches. Zakary is trained in Level 1 Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and integrates IFS alongside EMDR and other trauma-informed approaches to support clients experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and complex relational concerns.
Zakary has completed specialized training in narcissistic and antagonistic relational abuse, including the complex emotional and psychological effects these dynamics can have on individuals and families. He has also completed Levels 1 and 2 of Gottman Method Couples Therapy training and has training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT). These approaches inform his work with attachment, communication, emotional safety, conflict, relational ruptures, and rebuilding trust.
Zakary has also participated in relationship and intimacy training. This training has strengthened his ability to support clients exploring desire, intimacy, infidelity, and changing relationship dynamics. His practice is inclusive and affirming of diverse relationship structures, including ethical non-monogamy (ENM), consensual non-monogamy, and open relationships.
As a Métis clinician and a strong advocate for the LGBTQIA2S+ community, Zakary practises from an anti-oppressive, affirming, and non-pathologizing framework. He considers each client’s mental, physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual well-being while honouring the broader cultural and systemic contexts influencing their experiences.
Zakary has a particular interest in understanding relationship dynamics and supporting clients navigating high-conflict relationships, narcissistic or antagonistic abuse, intimacy concerns, infidelity, betrayal, separation, and divorce. He strives to create a welcoming environment characterized by authenticity, transparency, warmth, compassion, and collaboration. Clients can expect a judgment-free space where they can explore their emotions, patterns, and experiences while developing a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships.
With more than five years of clinical experience, Zakary is committed to supporting clients as they move toward healing, greater self-understanding, and meaningful change.
Zakary currently offers virtual appointments and limited in-person availability in Salmon Arm. He will be relocating to Langford, BC, in September 2026, where he will offer virtual services and limited in-person appointments.
