Amanjot is a seasoned Registered Social Worker with over a decade of experience supporting children, youth, adults, couples, and families navigating trauma, conflict, identity shifts, and systemic stressors. Her work is grounded in the co-lab’s core commitments to consent, collaboration, cultural humility, and emotional safety. She creates spaces where clients can show up authentically — without judgment, pressure, or coercion — and where readiness and relationship are prioritized over imposed outcomes.
Across the co-lab’s services, Amanjot provides individual counselling, co-parent support, child and youth therapy, and family-based interventions. She supports clients working through anxiety, depression, trauma, relational ruptures, high-conflict separation, and complex family transitions. Her practice is informed by anti-oppressive, strengths-based, trauma-aware, and neuroaffirming frameworks, and she integrates modalities such as DBT, narrative therapy, ACT, and emotion-focused therapy, tailoring her approach to the unique needs of each person and family.
Amanjot is fluent in both English and Punjabi and brings deep cultural insight to her work, making her a trusted support for diverse individuals and communities.
She also has extensive experience within high-conflict family systems, including court-involved and court-mandated contexts, co-parents navigating separation, families experiencing parent-child contact resistance, and cases involving allegations of violence or abuse. Known for her calm, clear, and grounded presence, Amanjot is able to remain steady in complex relational landscapes while holding boundaries with care.
Within the co-lab’s interdisciplinary model, Amanjot collaborates closely with colleagues to ensure care is coordinated, clinically sound, and ethically anchored. She understands that mandated participation does not equal consent, and she remains committed to honouring the dignity, pace, and autonomy of every child and adult she supports.
Whether working one-on-one with an individual, supporting a parent through reactivity and repair, or guiding a family toward safer and more sustainable connection, Amanjot brings clinical depth, cultural responsiveness, and an unwavering commitment to meaningful, lasting change.
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Marianne is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with extensive experience supporting families navigating separation, conflict, and emotionally complex transitions. Her practice is rooted in trauma-informed, attachment-based, and systems-aware approaches.
With advanced training in parenting coordination, resistance and refusal dynamics, and high-conflict co-parenting, Marianne brings clarity and compassion to her work with children, parents, and caregivers. She supports families involved with court processes, Section 211 assessments, and therapeutic interventions—always centering emotional safety, readiness, and practical support.
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Talia is a Certified Comprehensive Family Mediator, Certified Family Relations Mediator, Child-Inclusive Mediator, Certified Clinical Trauma Practitioner, Co-parent Coach/Counsellor, Certified Coercive Control Trauma-Informed Clinician and Certified New Ways for Families Coach who specializes in aligning cost-effective, and realistic paths forward for families that proactively reduce conflict and re-establish consistency as well as calm.
Her role is to guide folks and facilitate conversations that help to figure out the unfigureoutable.
She began her career at assault services almost two decades ago, she’s been fortunate to have led a wide variety of local, regional, domestic, and international teams toward the elevation of support and equity for vulnerable people in challenging circumstances inclusive but not limited to family violence, intimate partner violence, mental illness, substance misuse, homelessness, poverty, crisis, and trauma.
She practices from a culturally supportive, child-focused, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming perspective where she aims to hold equitable space for folks to feel heard, and find solutions for their families.
She has extensive lived experience, education, and professional experience working with families navigating heightened conflict. She has received training from a broad range of well-respected institutions, organizations, universities, and professionals including but not limited to Family Mediation Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, the Canadian Police Knowledge Network, the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children, Children Beyond Dispute, Harvard Law School, Somatic Experiencing International, Stanford University, the Institute of Child Psychology, the Crisis and Trauma Research Institute of Canada, the High Conflict Institute, University of Toronto, the Justice Institute of British Columbia, University of Salford’s Master of Psychology programme with a specialization in coercive control, Provincial Association of Transition Houses & Services in Saskatchewan (a province with the highest rates of reported family violence in Canada), and Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse (RESOLVE).
She sits on the board for the BC Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. She has published in the Law Review regarding the experiences of neurodivergent persons in family law and family services settings.
Those who work with Talia often note she’s soft-spoken, insightful, and gets things done.
Talia works in private practice with Kinder Family Services, as well as with Co-lab Consulting Corporation which offers online/virtual support for co-parents and conflict or court-involved families at cost-efficient rates, and on the Crossroads Family Support Team that provides holistic support (family mediation, co-parent counselling , child/play therapy, etc.) from a family systems lens for separated/divorced families who are navigating high levels of conflict and/or may be court-involved.
Memberships:
Associate Roster, Mediate BC
American Bar Association (non-attorney)
American Psychology Association
Hear the Child Society
BC Society for Children and Youth
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
International Academy of Collaborative Professionals
The High Conflict Institute
Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada
Family Dispute Resolution Institute of Ontario
Ontario Association of Family Mediation
Certification: Certified Comprehensive Family Mediator (C.CFM)
Certified Family Relations Mediator (C.FRM)
Certified New Ways for Families Coach (C.NWFF)
Certified Child Inclusive Mediation and Counselling Consultant (CIMC)
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II)
Certified Coercive Control Trauma Informed Clinician
ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP)
Dual Certified Child and Family Trauma Professional (CFTP)
Certified Advanced Grief Counselling Specialist (CAGCS)
Certificate in Gender Based Violence - Centre for Research and Education on Violence Against Women & Children
Certificate in Family Mediation - Herzing College
Certificate in Child Protection Mediation - Family Mediation Canada
Certificate in Parenting Coordination - Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Certificate in Parenting Plan Evaluations - Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Somatic Experiencing Professional Certification - Beg I, Beg II
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