About Us
Drive Counselling Group was created to provide a welcoming place for clinicians to work and clients to recieve support and services for their whole family. At Drive you will find clinicians who work 1-1 and in group settings with children, youth, adults couples and the elderly to best support your changing needs. Clinicians in our space also specialize in paediatric sleep and support new moms through pre-natal and postpartum stages. Our team at Drive Counselling Group looks forward to supporting your holistic wellbeing.
Counsellors
Alyssa Marrello
RCC, Sleep Consultant
Alyssa Marrello is the Director and a clinician at Drive. Her main areas of interest are Play Therapy, Family Systems and Generalized Anxiety. She is also a Registered Pediatric Sleep Consultant and has helped hundreds of families find peace in their homes again through the gift of sleep. Alyssa believes the foundation of mental wellness begins with sleep health and education.
Diana Ball
M.Ed, RCC
Sleep Consultant
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Diana has several years of experience in diverse clinical and educational settings. Her warmth, authenticity, and candor allow her to connect easily with her clients. Diana offers individual counselling, couples therapy and family therapy in her practice. Diana utilizes a solution-focused approach, with trauma-informed principles, to help clients develop self-regulation skills, and thereby build healthy relationships.
Meghan Hodgson
RCC, MCP
Meghan believes that teamwork, curiosity, & compassion are key ingredients for healing. She creates treatment plans tailored to each client’s unique goals, struggles, and needs. All of this is achieved using a non-judgemental & strength-based approach. Most often, through emotion-focused, Adlerian, and mind-body therapy. Moreover, Meghan’s commitment to creating safe spaces allows clients to explore their inner worlds, wounds, and truths at their natural pace. While she loves working with all sorts of wellness goals, she specializes in supporting individuals, couples, and families to navigate childhood trauma, attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, & autism spectrum disorder.
Sonia Bertelli
RCC
Sonia Bertelli is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. Her approach to counselling is a collaborative Client-Centered approach, where the client is in charge of their own healing. Sonia works with teenagers and adults, and her main areas of focus are anxiety, trauma, and depression. Click the link above for more information about Sonia!
Jason Thadickal
RCC
Jason is interested in creating a safe space where people can tell their stories in away that is meaningful and important to them. One of Jason's main goals of counselling is to activate our own ability for compassion, healing, motivation, and hope. Jason works with people from all walks of life, primarily with men, youth, and families. Jason also incorporates DBT principles that focus on mindfulness and greater awareness of our internal and external experiences.
Chloe Deane
RCC
Chloe is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC. She has spent the majority of her career working with children and families as a school counsellor. Through her experiences, she has developed a strong belief that the best way to support children is to support their parents. Chloe now works with parents to help them reach their parenting goals, as well as with children and youth, to support them in their growth and development. Click the link above to learn more.
Paula has worked with children and families for over twenty-five years, primarily in the school setting. She uses strength based modalities that emphasize renewal and hope in her practice. She has a vast array of training and experience working with diverse individuals and families. Her areas of interest are working with parents of teens and parents of young people struggling with anxiety. She has specialized training in SPACE treatment (Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions) https://www.spacetreatment.net/ Paula lives and works in East Vancouver with her partner and two dynamic teens.
Pino Leporace, M.Ed, M.C.C, RCC, CCC
Pino approaches therapeutic work with passionate curiosity
and a deep respect those who may be suffering. He has personal experience of
dealing with his own Shadow and believes that working through pain allows us to find who we truly
are. In his earlier life, Pino graduated with a degree in literature and later Masters degrees in Education and Counselling. As a teacher, he encouraged his students to do inner work and ask the
hard question of life: Who am I? Pino’s own deep questions led him all over the world, including two years working in a wilderness therapy program for teens in the Utah wilderness and seven years
teaching in a South Korean University.
Zoe Kwasny
MCP, RCC, CCC
Sara Menzel
RCC
Zoë is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. Her approach to counselling uses a trauma-informed and inclusive lens in order to provide a safe space for her clients to grow. Zoë’s passions include working with couples and families to strengthen healthy communication in high conflict settings, as well as working with individuals to strengthen coping strategies, set boundaries & build empowerment in daily life.
Sara Menzel (BC Registered Clinical Counsellor) has been working in the counselling field for over 25 years. Her main focus is couples and individuals of any age, orientation and background who wish to create healthy relationship patterns such as improved communication, diminished conflict, recovery from betrayal, healing from trauma etc. Sara has trained in and practices through the lens of various modalities including EMDR, EFT, Imago, Internal Family Systems, Relational Life Therapy and Sensiormotor Psychotherapy. Sara has been described as warm and caring with the ability to address clients wishes/objectives quickly.
Please contact Sara at 604-329-8521 or via email at sara@saramenzel.ca or via the link above
Hello! I'm Kerry Anne, I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. I strive to create a warm, safe and supportive space to help individuals deal with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, stress, life transitions and perinatal mental health. My work with clients is trauma informed, attachment focused and incorporates CBT, attachment theory, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy and mindfulness. In addition to my private practice, I provide counselling services at Royal Columbian Hospital's Reproductive Mental Health Program.
Suzanne Fox is a Certified Executive Coach, Associated Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, a healthcare and leadership Consultant, and a Certified Health Executive with the College of Canadian Health Leaders. She is the Founder of Fox Den Consulting and has 20 years of experience working in both public and private healthcare systems and private industry. She partners with leaders, to maximize their potential and transform the way they live, work
and lead. She is a highly skilled facilitator and executive leadership coach offering training and coaching in leadership development, effective communication, collaboration, emotional intelligence, and resilience. She also specializes in healthcare leadership development, wellness, and career transitions. Suzanne supports those she works with to strive for excellence through purpose and vision inspiring change one conversation at a time.
Contact Us
Drive Counselling Group
1701 Unit 202 Grant Street, East Vancouver V5L 3X9