because courage goes down easier with chips on the table.”
Therapist, educator, and founder of Let’s Talk Access. Christa turns complex systems into tools people can actually use, blending clinical expertise with creative spark. She’s led programs around the world, taught everything from trauma recovery to peace education, and believes real change starts with honoring people as they are.
Happiest near the ocean or in the mountains, she shares her home with Alfie the opinionated tabby and collections of special interest tools & supplies.
RCC, MACP
Christa can be reached for: one-on-one therapy, specializing in EMDR, EMDR-IGTP, Somatic Experiencing, Ketamine Assisted Therapy, and (qualifying) level 1 Deep Brain Reorienting; Group training and therapy through integrated Indigenous-Western principles.
Dorraine (she/her) is of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and Quw’ut’sun ancestry on her father’s side and primarily Irish settler ancestry on her mother’s. She works supporting Indigenous job seekers in accessing sustainable employment and is actively engaged in cultural cooperation and economic reconciliation.
Her experience includes facilitation with UBC and the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, project delivery with Open Table Society and the OptiMSt publication for the Yukon Status of Women Council, and event planning and delivery with Many Rivers Counselling and WorkBC Victoria-Saanich in partnership with VNFC.
Dorraine can be reached for Truth & Reconciliation training, indigenous programming and design, and one-on-one workshops.
Nicole (she/they) supports Let’s Talk Access as part of our Core Stewardship Team. She’s passionate about community-led, accessible, and stigma-free approaches to mental wellbeing, and believes support works best when it’s rooted in empathy and real connection. Over the spring Nicole lead our community-backed Beltane Benefit night, coordinating artists, businesses, and wrangling volunteers for an epic evening of beauty.
Outside of the project, Nicole loves making music and singing, and spends her time taking hip hop, lyrical, and jazz dance classes. She’s happiest near the water and has a summer goal of getting a kayak — because being on the water feels like home. This Winter Nicole made Krampus come to life on our stage - singing and performing to help raise our seed capital.
Anna Braunizer graduated from Dalhousie University in 2018, where she received a Master of Science in Occupational Therapy. Anna (she/they) is from England and Austria, moving to the island the day after her 6th birthday and growing up near SṈIDȻEȽ and W̱JOȽEȽP on the peninsula. She currently works as a generalist occupational therapist, which means she could work with people on doing what matters, whether that is collaborating on recovery from a traumatic stress injury or working on home accessibility. When taking care of her mental health, Anna loves to dance at Collective Heeling, make art, connect with nature and learn about the Land and healing with the Land at WSIKEM Ivy Project, and spend time with friends.
Aimee is an Ontario Registered Psychotherapist who works from a trauma-informed, attachment-based lens. She’s interested in how people come to understand their emotional patterns, regulate their nervous systems, and build trust in themselves and their relationships.
With Let’s Talk Access, Amy supports the organization and development of the Access Guide — a companion resource that follows each podcast episode with added context, reflection prompts, and practical tools people can use at their own pace. Aimee manages our team of research volunteers.
RP(Q), MACP
Aimee can be reached for one-on-one therapy.
Caro (she/her) supports Let’s Talk Access as part of our Core Stewardship Team. After a career as a Marine Engineer in the Royal Canadian Navy, she recently retired and stepped into a very different kind of adventure. Her years in the Navy gave her plenty of practice leading teams, solving problems, mentoring others, and staying calm when things inevitably don’t go according to plan — skills that have translated surprisingly well to building a community project from the ground up.
At Let’s Talk Access, Caro brings a love of advocacy, program planning, playful whimsy, and connecting people with the resources they need. She’s a natural people-person who knows how to rally a team around a shared goal and turn big ideas into things that actually happen.
Whether she’s wrangling logistics, supporting volunteers, building relationships, or figuring out how to get an ambitious idea across the finish line, Caro brings steadiness, humour, and a willingness to jump in wherever she’s needed.
Lindsey supports Let’s Talk Access through on-the-ground coordination, recruitment support, and the behind-the-scenes wrangling that helps keep things moving. She also contributes to audio editing and storyboarding, helping shape conversations into clear, accessible stories. If you want to get involved, Lindsey is who you reach out to.
A former military nurse and mom, Lindsey is currently in a period of transition, bringing steadiness, humour, and a strong get-it-done energy into this next chapter of her work. She often works alongside Nicole, and the two of them have become a go-to, high-performing duo — equal parts capable and chaotic, with Lindsey sometimes answering to the stage name Jabba the Butt.
RN, CAF
Kaity (she/her) is our Grant Lead and part of the Let’s Talk Access Strategic Delivery Team. Originally from Atlantic Canada, she now lives on the territory of the T’Sou-ke and Sc’ianew Nations. Kaity works as a grant writer, mostly back in her home province, where she works with a team to secure funding for food banks and other social causes. At LTA, she’s bringing that experience to the very important task of helping us fund all the big things we keep deciding to do.
Outside of the project, Kaity spends her time gardening, wandering farmers markets, doing puzzles, and heading to rehearsals for her next show. She’s a performer who loves to sing, but especially loves to dance — and there’s usually another show somewhere on the horizon.
Kaity can be reached for organizational and individual grant writing, and educational workshops.
weaving our own stories, training, and stubborn hope into a model that helps others find their way in.
