Andréa Vawda, B.A., B.Ed., RPC Youth and Young Adults Andrea Vawda has more than 10 years' experience working with youth and young adults in both educational and therapeutic settings. As a Registered Professional Counsellor, Andrea provides confidential counselling for individuals and groups in the areas of self esteem, goal setting, substance misuse, anger and grief, healthy eating, sexual health/identity, communication and habitual behaviours.

Actors and Artists As a Registered Professional Counsellor who has worked as an actor and singer for many years, Andrea Vawda is uniquely equipped to work with new and seasoned actors and musical artists who want to move their craft to the next level through personal discovery, identity and self esteem work. The more self-awareness an artist achieves, the more inspiration and creativity he or she can access and bring to their projects. Andrea is a down-to-earth, empathic person who sees value in each individual and is able to provide therapeutic, confidential, practical counsel to artists who want to empower themselves to deliver their best. Andrea puts it this way, "We all have gifts....I believe mine is to help you actualize yours!"

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Eileen McDougall, CHRP Eileen McDougall has 20+ years of experience as a manager and human resources specialist. She has worked in both private and public business and in union and non-union environments. As a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP), Eileen has managed human resources, labour, payroll, policies and procedures, employment equity and cultural diversity, corporate training development and delivery, collective agreement interpretation and occupational health & safety consultation.

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Dustin Budden, B.A. Dustin Budden has spent years facilitating workshops around positive change. He has worked with many high-risk and multi-barriered people in various capacities in order to help them realize their potential. Dustin has been working with youth and adults, both individually and in group settings, who face challenges pertaining to substance misuse, mental health, life-skills, housing, employment and interpersonal relationships. Dustin has a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Psychology. He has studied in the areas of research methodology,

statistical analysis, social psychology, health psychology, interpersonal relationships, psychopharmacology, abnormal psychology, cognition, industrial psychology, developmental psychology, consciousness, biological psychology, self-monitoring, evolutionary psychology and counselling.

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Lisa Ovies, Personal Coach Lisa Ovies is a professional model and actress residing in Vancouver, Canada. For the last 12 years her passion for people and other cultures has lead her to travel to well over 20 countries across the world. Lisa has trained at Vancouver Film School in documentary film, production and scriptwriting; as well as received a scholarship in 2006 to Columbia Academy of Broadcasting and in 2008 she began pursuing her love of acting by attending Vancouver Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Since graduating from VADA she has been busy staring in several commercials, films and studying improv with established acting coach Tony Alcantar of Chicago’s Second City Improv. Lisa has also launched a successful modelling career and produced her first feature film in late 2009. In January of 2010 she created L.A.F.F.( Local Artists First Friday); a group developed to encourage, support and grow the careers of local actors. She works regularly with artists in the lower mainland on positive change and on finding ways to manage and control their own careers and futures. She is currently completing her training as a life couch and has successfully combined her love of people and of the arts to develop a program specifically created for artists, teaching them empowerment in their careers, and helping them achieve a new level of success and quality of emotion in all aspects of their lives.