Christina Dhaliwal brings both clinical expertise and lived professional experience to her work. Prior to becoming a therapist, she worked for 20 years as a Registered Nurse in trauma emergency departments and fly-in Indigenous primary health care clinics, providing care within complex and often overwhelmed healthcare systems. Seven years ago, she transitioned into psychotherapy, bringing a compassionate, collaborative, and client-centred approach to working with adults and couples from diverse backgrounds.

Currently working toward licensure as a psychologist, Christina provides strength-based, trauma-informed psychological services tailored to each client’s unique needs and goals. She utilizes an integrative and evidence-based approach, drawing from multiple therapeutic modalities to support meaningful and lasting change.

Christina has particular areas of focus in women’s mental health, perinatal mental health, and supporting individuals and couples navigating fertility challenges, pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, pregnancy loss, adoption journeys, parenting stress, and caregiving demands. Her work is informed not only by her professional background in healthcare, but also by lived caregiving experience and graduate-level research focused on couples therapy for couples experiencing fertility challenges and pursuing adoption.

She also has a strong focus on supporting emergency workers and frontline professionals, including police officers, dispatchers, paramedics, firefighters, nurses, correctional workers, and other helping professionals. Christina understands firsthand the realities of frontline work, including cumulative trauma exposure, operational stress, burnout, compassion fatigue, workplace pressures, and the challenges of balancing professional responsibilities with personal wellbeing. She works with clients experiencing stress, trauma responses, emotional exhaustion, relationship strain, loss of identity or purpose, and difficulties navigating demanding or broken systems.

Christina works collaboratively with clients to create a supportive, respectful, and non-judgmental space where individuals feel understood and empowered. She sees individuals aged 18 and older, as well as couples, and supports clients through a range of concerns including trauma, anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship challenges, grief and loss, stress, burnout, and emotional wellbeing. Her focus is on helping clients build resilience, deepen self-understanding, reconnect with their strengths and values, and move forward with greater clarity, balance, and confidence.