Liana Rose
Hi, I'm Liana (they/them).
I'm a music therapist and Canadian Certified Counsellor with a Masters in Counselling Psychology.
As a human, I am a queer, gender nonconforming, polyamorous, and neurodivergent musician who loves driving and hiking through vast, forested mountains abroad, taking artsy photos, rock climbing, terrible puns, and excellent coffee. I have been a lifelong musician, expressing this as a self-employed music therapist, songwriter for professional performers, and member of both original music projects and event ensembles. I am currently a wedding performer as a keyboardist and vocalist, and have two active original projects.
As a clinician, I am guided by research, my education, social justice, and my lived experience to serve you as best I can, bringing warmth, curiosity, authenticity, humour, and the belief that you are capable.
I work with children, youth, and adults, individually or in partnerships.
My areas of specialty and interest include queer and trans* folx and those in alternative/radical relationship structures, though I will be delighted to meet with you if you connect with identities other than these. I also have experience working as a music therapist with children on the spectrum and living with other neurodiversities.
I enjoy working with people through:
Explorations in identity or life path
Self-discovery and empowerment
Exploration of sex, erotic templates, and gender with self or in relationship
Development of skills and experiences in communication and interpersonal connection
Existential questioning
Psychedelic integration
Unweaving of the tangles of everyday life, internal and relational
No matter where you are coming from, you're invited to be your authentic self, tell your story, and co-create with me what therapy looks like. In an empathic, curious and empowering space, I will offer therapeutic direction and techniques to help you build bridges toward your goals.
My approach is inspired by mindfulness, anti-oppression, creativity, identity affirmation, social justice, trauma as it lives in the body, values exploration, and my education in relationship counselling, neurobiology and human evolution, sex and sexuality, and attachment science.
We may gently unearth emotional layers, expand your attitudes and feelings towards life situations, or develop new ways you'd like to act in the world. We might talk, draw or move around. There might be long silences, or lots of laughter. I may ask you to check in with your body.
My hope is that you'll leave our work together with new insight or awareness into the self, or looking at an issue from a different perspective. And after our sessions, I encourage you to take a few minutes to journal, meditate, stretch — anything that honours you and the work you just did.
I look forward to working together!
Session Fee:
Individuals $200 (plus applicable tax) per 50-minute session.
Relationships (dyads) $225 per 50-minute session, $250 per 75-minute session (plus applicable tax). For additional partners, please contact Liana for pricing.