Our Wellness Team
Sunita Kaushal, M.A. RCC, BCACC # 20061
Sunita Kaushal is the Founder and the Primary Clinical Counsellor at Explore Wellness Inc. Sunita completed her Master’s in Counselling Psychology degree from Yorkville University, Ontario. Sunita has a special interest in working with youth and their caregivers and families using her strong client and family centred focus and enable them to maximize their optimal recovery. Sunita’s gentle and welcoming approach means that she is quickly able to develop rapport with her clients and build foundation for a trusting and reliable working relationship. Sunita has developed skills in both individual and group therapy Including couples counselling. Sunita has excellent listening skills and believes in forming collaborative partnerships when working with her clients. She has high regard for diversity and she firmly believes that any treatment modality must synchronize with individual‘s cultural belief system. Prior to completing her Master’s degree, Sunita worked at the University of the Fraser Valley with international students for over 10 years. Sunita has an undergraduate degree in Adult Education. With her years of experience of working within academic field and assisting others, you can rest assured that you are going to receive competent and professional service from Sunita.
Sunita is always to keen learn new skills and new evidence based treatments in the field of Psychology. She undergoes regular skill building workshops and attends training to stay abreast of modern advances in treatment and the latest researched evidence.
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Duncan MacDonald, MSW, RCSW, RMFT
For more than 20 years, Duncan has been working in the field of counselling and therapy. As a trained family counsellor, Duncan can work with all members of the family. Duncan’s clients have included individuals, couples, youth and children.
Duncan’s professional registrations are with these organizations: The Canadian Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, #66190; and The BC College of Social Workers (the regulatory body for the practice of Social Work in BC) #4210.
Duncan is contracted to provide counselling through some of the major government and private employee and family assistance programs. These include Health Canada and Homewood Health.
Since 2001, Duncan has provided supervision to a provincial mental health team that works with children, youth and their caregivers. Duncan also works with Fraser Health Authority as a Crisis Clinician.
Registered Clinical Social Worker
Dr. Oyebode Arojojoye, MD; FRCPC; LMCC; MRCPsych. (UK)
Explore Wellness is delighted to add Dr. Oyebode Arojojoye to our excellent team of professionals. Dr. Arojojoye brings extensive experience of practising psychiatry in the United Kingdom and in Canada within acute and community based psychiatry. Dr. Arojojoye’s acute experience in Canada includes working as a Psychiatrist in Sasketchewan as well as in British Columbia within Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Lion’s Gate Hospital in Vancouver. Dr. Arojojoye is passionate about holistic approach to wellness and teamwork that promotes strength based client and family centred practice.
With Dr. Arojojoye being on our team, Explore Wellness is able to access his specialism for clients requiring a Psychiatry consult, medication reviews or Psychiatry follow up.
Note: A referral from a client’s GP or a Nurse Practitioner is required to access Dr. Arojojoye’s services.
Psychiatrist
Shikha Kaushal, BSW, RSW Candidate
Shikha Kaushal is passionate about empowering and enabling others to achieve their full potential.
Shikha was drawn towards health care profession from a very young age. She felt that the health care field was her calling and she was determined to make a positive difference in people’s lives as part of her profession. Driven by this passion, Shikha completed her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work from the University of Fraser Valley. Shikha has diverse and rich experience of working with various client groups. She has worked with children and youth in a school setting, women who experienced substance use and homelessness, working with people receiving palliative care in a hospice setting, working with adolescents in Foundry, working with South Asian community and facilitating grief support groups. Shikha is also an active participant with the local church community. Shikha is a firm believer of recovery focused empowerment approach and she believes that often people can be enabled to mobilize their own strengths and resources to take control of their lives.
In her spare time, Shikha volunteers at the hospice to offer grief support groups to the families who have lost their loved ones. With Shikha’s warm, welcoming and friendly approach, she is able to develop a quick rapport with her clients. Shikha is technologically savvy and is also able to connect with youth, adolescents and young adults using various modes of social media communication as a part of virtual engagement. Explore Wellness Inc. is very pleased to add a young and passionate Social Worker like Shikha to its team of professionals.
For appointments with Shikha, mail Shikha.explorewellness@gmail.com
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