Adriana Perez, MSW, RSW
Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist
Squamish BC
I offer both in-person and online care — in-person in Squamish, BC, and online through a secure platform for clients across BC and Ontario. Every relationship starts with a free initial consultation, and if we're a good fit, our first full session is a comprehensive assessment to shape the right plan together. Support is available for as long as it's useful, whether that's short-term or longer, deeper work. Collaboration is at the heart of how I practice — I don't take lightly the privilege of walking alongside someone through their life, and I hold that with care and a high standard of practice.
Adriana Karina Perez is a Registered Social Worker with eight years of clinical experience, currently in private practice in Squamish, British Columbia, offering both in-person and virtual therapy to adults across BC and Ontario. As an immigrant from Venezuela and a person of colour, she brings a grounded, cross-cultural lens to her work and offers therapy fluently in both English and Spanish — one of few Spanish-language therapy options in her region.
Adriana's clinical work centers on anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions, drawing on humanistic, evidence-based, and experiential modalities including AEDP, Emotion Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal-informed work, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and CBT.
Within the psychedelic space, Adriana offers Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAT) for medically and psychologically appropriate clients, working within a dual-therapist model alongside a supervising medical team. For psilocybin- and MDMA-assisted therapy specifically, she does not submit or manage Health Canada Special Access Program (SAP) applications — that step requires a prescribing physician or nurse practitioner. What she offers is the therapeutic support that surrounds an already-approved treatment: for clients who already have a prescriber pursuing SAP access, Adriana provides trained preparation, in-session support, and integration, grounded in her TheraPsil and MAPS training.
Adriana's approach is also explicitly grounded in harm reduction. For people who use substances — psychedelic or otherwise — outside of a clinical setting, she offers non-judgmental, informed support rather than an assumption that abstinence is the only valid goal, honouring each person's autonomy and lived experience.
Outside her private practice, Adriana leads a government-funded internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) program at GreenShield Health, providing clinical supervision to a team of therapists delivering care through the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program.