Values Statement

My name is Adrian, the therapist behind Aligned Living Counselling. I am a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying).

Before becoming a therapist, I was a whitewater slalom kayak athlete and spent several years as a member of the Canadian national team. I later coached at the provincial and national team levels and later on worked as a personal trainer and strength and conditioning coach. From the outside, that path probably sounds like a story about discipline, focus, and mental toughness. And it was, in part. But what those years really taught me was something I didn't expect: how harmful it can be to live out of alignment with who you actually are.

This insight didn't arrive from achievement. It arrived as a result of performing a life that didn't match the life I felt inside. That gap has a cost. And it's one most people carry quietly, often without a name for it.

I went on to complete a bachelor's degree in Health and Physical Education from Mount Royal University, majoring in Physical Literacy. But across all of it — competing, coaching, training — what I found myself returning to was people. Their stories, their hopes, and sometimes the things they were afraid to say out loud. I remain genuinely moved by the trust people extended to me, and the courage that took.

Through my education and clinical training, I've come to understand how deeply our experiences, environments, and the bodies we inhabit shape who we are — and who we believe we're allowed to be. That understanding sits at the core of how I work: with curiosity, without assumption, and with real respect for the complexity of your story.

 

Sometimes we lose our sense of purpose. Sometimes we've spent so long meeting others' expectations — or just surviving — that we've never had the chance to know who we are beneath all of that. Sometimes we've done everything right, and something still feels off.

 

Aligned Living Counselling exists for exactly that. I believe each of us holds the capacity to live in closer alignment with our values, our truth, and our own potential. My role isn't to give you answers — it's to help you find your own. Whatever feels most important to you, that's where we start.

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