Trini Vergara, RCC

Trini Vergara is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in Vancouver, Canada, registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors under number 19671. She was born in Chile and works in both Spanish and English, seeing people in person and online. Her listing records trauma support, psychedelic integration and mindfulness.

Background

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, both from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Her Master’s thesis was a guide for therapists on bringing a gender-based perspective to work with adult patients. After finishing her studies she spent a year in Australia, then moved to Vancouver at the start of the pandemic.

Who it is for

Vergara identifies as a heterosexual, cisgendered, Latinx woman. She writes about growing up in a conservative religious environment where appearances were valued over authenticity, and about witnessing classism, racism, sexism, ableism and heterosexism. She describes working towards greater social justice for people of varied identities and situations, and acknowledges living and working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.