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Meet Shelby Rogers

Shelby holds a Master of Counselling degree from City University and is awaiting registration as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) from the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellor (BCACC). Her primary therapeutic modalities include Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Person-Centered Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. She approaches counselling from a trauma-informed, multicultural, humanistic perspective that emphasizes relentless empathy, active listening, and unconditional positive regard.

Shelby supports individuals who are looking to heal from interpersonal trauma, attachment wounds, and emotion regulation challenges. Additionally, she supports couples looking to reconnect with each other and navigate relationship difficulties. Shelby offers a warm, compassionate space where individuals and couples can slow down, feel understood, and reconnect with what matters most. By utilizing humanistic counselling approaches, Shelby’s counselling work is able to honour the deep human need for connection, safety, and emotional closeness.

From an attachment-based perspective, many struggles such as anxiety, emotional distance, and recurring relationship patterns begin to make sense. With curiosity and care, Shelby can help clients explore these patterns, better understand their emotions and needs, and develop new ways of relating to themselves and others. Whether working with individuals or couples, the focus is on deepening emotional awareness and fostering more secure, meaningful connections.

Specialties Include:

  • Relationships and Attachment: Helping clients understand emotional patterns and attachment needs to foster more secure, meaningful connections with themselves and others.
  • Interpersonal Trauma: Supporting clients in healing interpersonal trauma by gently working with emotional experiences to restore safety, trust, and connection.
  • Emotion Regulation: Guiding clients in strengthening emotion regulation by deepening understanding of emotions and creating safety around overwhelming emotions.
  • Inner Child Work: Healing wounds from childhood through attachment-based and parts-work approaches.

Perfect For:

  • Individuals: Adults looking to heal from past relational traumas and seeking more secure, safe connections to themselves and others.
  • Couples: Adults seeking to reconnect in meaningful ways, understand their emotional patterns, and break out of painful cycles in their relationship.
Black and white portrait of a smiling woman with long, wavy blonde hair, wearing a black top and a delicate necklace. She is looking directly at the camera with a warm and approachable expression. The background is minimal and neutral.

Meet Shelby Rogers

Shelby holds a Master of Counselling degree from City University and is awaiting registration as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) from the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellor (BCACC). Her primary therapeutic modalities include Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Person-Centered Therapy, and Internal Family Systems. She approaches counselling from a trauma-informed, multicultural, humanistic perspective that emphasizes relentless empathy, active listening, and unconditional positive regard.

Shelby supports individuals who are looking to heal from interpersonal trauma, attachment wounds, and emotion regulation challenges. Additionally, she supports couples looking to reconnect with each other and navigate relationship difficulties. Shelby offers a warm, compassionate space where individuals and couples can slow down, feel understood, and reconnect with what matters most. By utilizing humanistic counselling approaches, Shelby’s counselling work is able to honour the deep human need for connection, safety, and emotional closeness.

From an attachment-based perspective, many struggles such as anxiety, emotional distance, and recurring relationship patterns begin to make sense. With curiosity and care, Shelby can help clients explore these patterns, better understand their emotions and needs, and develop new ways of relating to themselves and others. Whether working with individuals or couples, the focus is on deepening emotional awareness and fostering more secure, meaningful connections.

Specialties Include:

  • Relationships and Attachment: Helping clients understand emotional patterns and attachment needs to foster more secure, meaningful connections with themselves and others.
  • Interpersonal Trauma: Supporting clients in healing interpersonal trauma by gently working with emotional experiences to restore safety, trust, and connection.
  • Emotion Regulation: Guiding clients in strengthening emotion regulation by deepening understanding of emotions and creating safety around overwhelming emotions.
  • Inner Child Work: Healing wounds from childhood through attachment-based and parts-work approaches.

Perfect For:

  • Individuals: Adults looking to heal from past relational traumas and seeking more secure, safe connections to themselves and others.
  • Couples: Adults seeking to reconnect in meaningful ways, understand their emotional patterns, and break out of painful cycles in their relationship.

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Learn more about where Shelby’s story began

Learn more about where Shelby’s story began

Shelby grew up in Southern California before moving to Vancouver for university. Before becoming a counsellor, she worked in clinical psychology research labs focused on stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and autism. Her interest in clinical psychology eventually grew into a desire to help others, thus pursuing a counselling psychology career.
Outside of the therapeutic space, Shelby is a cat mom to two kitties (Haru and Nori). In her free time, Shelby enjoys reading, hiking, going to the gym, and spending time with friends and loved ones. She is always eager to try new things and enrich her life with a variety of new experiences.

Shelby is awaiting registration as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). She obtained a Master of Counselling degree from City University in 2025 and has received training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals and couples from the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Shelby creates a safe, warm environment for all clients to express, explore, and understand their emotions in a welcoming, nonjudgmental setting. At Nova Rain, Shelby supports and empowers her clients through compassionate counselling that centres each client’s unique lived experience. Shelby’s hard work enhances Nova Rain’s mission to deliver inclusive, empathetic mental health care across British Columbia.

Shelby is awaiting registration as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). She obtained a Master of Counselling degree from City University in 2025 and has received training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals and couples from the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). Shelby creates a safe, warm environment for all clients to express, explore, and understand their emotions in a welcoming, nonjudgmental setting. At Nova Rain, Shelby supports and empowers her clients through compassionate counselling that centres each client’s unique lived experience. Shelby’s hard work enhances Nova Rain’s mission to deliver inclusive, empathetic mental health care across British Columbia.