At Gentle Currents Therapy, care begins with the person in front of us—with listening, empathy, respect, and compassion for the story they carry.

We believe healing happens when clinical expertise meets true human compassion.

Our team brings evidence-informed counselling, trauma-informed practice, neurofeedback, clinical training, and ongoing professional development together with genuine human connection. We believe professional knowledge and clinical skill matter deeply, and that they are most meaningful when offered with compassion, curiosity, humility, and respect for each person’s needs, strengths, choices, and pace.

No one is simply a diagnosis, a set of symptoms, or the most difficult chapter of their life. We want each person who comes to Gentle Currents to feel heard, respected, and understood as a whole person.

Our Promise: Every person who comes to Gentle Currents is welcomed with dignity, compassion, and hope.

Learn more about our Statement of Care.

Starting the Right Therapeutic Relationship

Every person who comes to counselling brings a unique story, set of experiences, strengths, relationships, and hopes for what might be different.

Research across hundreds of studies has consistently found that a strong therapeutic relationship is associated with better treatment outcomes. That is why choosing a therapist involves more than simply considering credentials, training, or a particular therapeutic approach. The person of the therapist—and the empathy, respect, understanding, and trust that can develop within the therapeutic relationship—matters.

That is why Gentle Currents Therapy brings together experienced Registered Clinical Counsellors, therapeutic practitioners, developing clinicians working under clinical supervision, and neurofeedback practitioners who bring both professional knowledge and genuine care for the people they serve. Our team members bring different areas of training, clinical experience, interests, personal histories, and ways of working, but we share a commitment to care for one another and for each person who comes to us with respect, honouring their dignity and valuing who they are as an individual.

Each member of our team shares a commitment to compassionate, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and evidence-informed care. We recognize that clinical knowledge and therapeutic approaches matter, but so do empathy, authenticity, respect, and the quality of the relationship in which care takes place.

For us, good counselling is not only about what a therapist knows. It is also about what they do and how they are with the person in front of them—how they listen, respond, understand, and remain present. Clinical expertise becomes most meaningful when it is expressed through genuine human compassion.

As you search for a counsellor in Langley or the surrounding communities, we want you to have the opportunity to learn about the people behind the care—not only their credentials and areas of practice, but something about who they are and how they approach the people who entrust us with their stories.

There is no expectation that you need to know exactly what kind of counselling you need or which clinician is right for you before reaching out. You are welcome to explore our team, ask questions, and, when you are ready, take the next step.

Jeanette Dadson

Founder & Co-Owner | Certified LENS Neurofeedback Technician

Jeanette Dadson is the founder and co-owner of Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC. Her approach to care has been shaped by decades of working with children, families, and people with complex needs. Her early background as a Licensed Practical Nurse and specialized in-home caregiver included supporting children with developmental, neurological, and complex medical needs. These experiences taught Jeanette the importance of patience, careful observation, adaptability, and treating each person with dignity and compassion.

For more than a decade, Jeanette has brought this foundation to her work with LENS Neurofeedback, supported by extensive training in the Low Energy Neurofeedback System. She takes a gentle, attentive, and relationship-centred approach, taking time to listen, answer questions, and help clients and families feel comfortable throughout the process. As a founder of Gentle Currents Therapy, Jeanette continues to help shape a clinic where skilled care, genuine human connection, and respect for each person’s individuality belong together.

Areas of Focus: LENS Neurofeedback • Nervous-System Regulation • Autism & Neurodevelopmental Needs • Traumatic Brain Injury • Children & Families • Stress & Emotional Wellbeing

Dr. Michael “Mike” Dadson, PhD, RCC #1467, CCC

Clinical Director | Registered Clinical Counsellor | Clinical Supervisor

Dr. Michael “Mike” Dadson provides clinical leadership at Gentle Currents Therapy and brings decades of experience in counselling psychology, trauma recovery, clinical supervision, program development, and therapist education. As co-owner, he works alongside founder Jeanette Dadson in stewarding the clinic’s commitment to compassionate, evidence-informed, and relationship-centred care. His clinical work includes supporting individuals, couples, families, veterans, first responders, and professionals navigating trauma, PTSD, relationship concerns, men’s mental health, grief, burnout, and significant life transitions.

Mike combines evidence-informed and trauma-informed practice with curiosity, empathy, compassion, and genuine human connection. As Senior Clinical Supervisor, he also provides supervision, consultation, and mentorship to counsellors and developing clinicians, helping them strengthen their clinical understanding, confidence, and competence while developing an authentic approach to care.

Areas of Focus: Trauma & PTSD • Complex Trauma • Veterans & First Responders • Men’s Mental Health • Couples & Families • Clinical Supervision

Clinical Supervisor | Clinical Counsellor | Trauma-Informed Care | EMDR

Carlie Dinwoodie is an experienced Clinical Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC. Her warm, collaborative, and client-centred approach supports people navigating trauma, anxiety, grief and loss, reproductive trauma, attachment concerns, relationship difficulties, and family transitions. She brings training in EMDR, attachment-focused therapy, grief and reproductive loss counselling, family systems approaches, nervous-system regulation, and LENS Neurofeedback, along with extensive experience working with children, adolescents, parents, couples, and families.

Carlie seeks to create a therapeutic relationship where people feel safe, respected, and supported as they work through difficult experiences at a manageable pace. As a Clinical Supervisor, she also provides support and mentorship to developing clinicians, helping them strengthen their clinical skills, deepen their understanding, and grow in confidence as thoughtful and compassionate practitioners.

Areas of Focus: Trauma & PTSD • EMDR • Anxiety • Grief & Reproductive Loss • Attachment & Relationships • Children & Families • Clinical Supervision

Ishani Chakravorty, M.Sc., RCC

Registered Clinical Counsellor | Neuroscience-Informed Therapy | LENS Neurofeedback

Ishani Chakravorty is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Certified LENS Neurofeedback Technician at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC. With graduate training in both counselling psychology and neuroscience, she brings a unique understanding of the connections between emotional wellbeing, stress, behaviour, relationships, and nervous-system functioning. Her warm, collaborative approach draws from evidence-informed practices including Person-Centred Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), existential and insight-oriented therapy, and neuroscience-informed care.

Ishani supports people navigating anxiety, depression, stress, emotional overwhelm, relationship concerns, identity, life transitions, and other mental-health challenges. She can also integrate LENS Neurofeedback, counselling, and psychoeducation when appropriate. Ishani seeks to create a respectful, non-judgmental space where clients feel heard and supported as they build greater self-awareness, resilience, emotional regulation, and healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.

Areas of Focus: Anxiety & Depression • Stress & Emotional Regulation • Neuroscience-Informed Counselling • CBT • Relationships & Life Transitions • LENS Neurofeedback

Registered Clinical Counsellor | Youth & Young Adults | Grief & Life Transitions

Puneet Rattanpal is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC. She brings a warm, empathetic, and strength-focused approach to counselling, with a particular interest in supporting youth and young adults navigating identity, relationships, family life, education, emotional wellbeing, and major life transitions. She seeks to create a safe, respectful space where clients feel understood without judgment and supported in recognizing their strengths and building confidence.

Puneet also has a developing clinical interest in grief, loss, aging, and end-of-life experiences, informed by graduate work exploring counselling through death and compassionate, holistic end-of-life support. Her collaborative approach honours each person’s dignity, individuality, and pace while helping clients build resilience and healthier ways of navigating emotions, relationships, challenges, and change.

Areas of Focus: Youth & Young Adults • Anxiety & Stress • Identity & Life Transitions • Grief & Loss • Aging & End-of-Life Experiences • Resilience & Coping

Jason Evans, M.C., RCC, CPHR

Registered Clinical Counsellor | Men’s Mental Health | Relationships & Workplace Wellbeing

Jason Evans is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Chartered Professional in Human Resources at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC. With more than a decade of counselling experience, he supports individuals, couples, families, leaders, and professionals navigating anxiety, relationship difficulties, men’s mental health, burnout, workplace conflict, grief, stress, life transitions, and questions of identity or purpose. His training includes Internal Family Systems (IFS), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), trauma-informed practice, attachment-based approaches, and nervous-system regulation.

Jason brings a curious, thoughtful, and practical approach to counselling, helping clients deepen self-awareness, understand emotional and relational patterns, strengthen communication, and make changes aligned with their values. As a Chartered Professional in Human Resources, he also brings a distinctive understanding of workplace mental health, leadership pressures, occupational stress, and organizational dynamics, combining this perspective with compassionate, evidence-informed care.

Areas of Focus: Men’s Mental Health • Anxiety & Stress • Couples & Relationships • Workplace Mental Health & Burnout • IFS • Life Transitions & Purpose

Registered Therapeutic Counsellor | Men’s Mental Health | Youth & Young Adults

Dan Lloyd is an ACCT-accredited Registered Therapeutic Counsellor at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC. He brings extensive experience supporting youth and young adults through counselling, pastoral care, mentorship, and other helping roles, including previous work with mental-health organizations in the United Kingdom. Dan has a particular interest in supporting men, youth, and young adults navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, emotional difficulties, self-esteem, life transitions, relationships, and addictive or compulsive behaviours.

Dan’s approach is down-to-earth, genuine, and collaborative, drawing from relational and humanistic counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), mindfulness, attachment-based, solution-focused, and other evidence-informed approaches. He combines practical strategies with genuine human connection, creating a respectful and non-judgmental space where clients can better understand themselves, strengthen resilience, manage difficult emotions and behaviours, and work toward meaningful change.

Areas of Focus: Men’s Mental Health • Youth & Young Adults • Anxiety & Depression • Trauma & PTSD • Addictive & Compulsive Behaviours • Emotional Regulation & Resilience

Languages: English • Welsh

Manreet Buttar, MCP, RP (Qualifying)

Clinical Counsellor | Attachment-Focused & Culturally Responsive Care

Manreet Buttar is a Clinical Counsellor at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, BC, and a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in Ontario. She supports children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, self-esteem concerns, relationship difficulties, emotional overwhelm, grief, identity, childhood experiences, and significant life transitions. Her warm, collaborative approach is strongly informed by attachment theory and draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), and person-centred care.

With a background supporting children, adolescents, and families in educational and community settings, Manreet brings particular sensitivity to developmental needs, family relationships, cultural and religious identity, family expectations, and minority stress. She offers counselling in English and Punjabi and seeks to create a respectful, non-judgmental space where clients feel heard and supported as they develop greater self-understanding, strengthen coping skills, and navigate difficult experiences at their own pace.

Areas of Focus: Anxiety & Emotional Overwhelm • Self-Esteem • Attachment & Relationships • Children & Adolescents • Cultural & Identity Concerns • Life Transitions

Languages: English • Punjabi

Nicole Valor

Nicole holds a Master’s in Professional Counselling and brings a wealth of life experience and empathy to her practice. With clarity and compassion, she is dedicated to empowering clients to heal and make the changes they seek. Nicole considers it a great privilege to work with individuals and families at various crossroads, helping them discover new, healthy ways to experience life. She is committed to incorporating new and emerging effective techniques into her practice. Nicole’s passion lies in listening deeply and assisting clients in making meaningful changes.

Adam Dadson

Adam Dadson’s practice seamlessly integrates soothing, pain-relieving massages with personalized strategies designed to achieve practical functional goals beyond the therapy room. His approach is informed by the cutting-edge biopsychosocial pain model, and principles of self-efficacy, focusing on enhancing practical functional strength.

Kevin Li

Kevin is a counselling intern who welcomes individuals seeking meaningful conversations that support growth, reflection, and healing. He offers a warm, non-judgemental presence, creating a space where clients can feel heard, understood, and supported. Kevin believes that healing begins when the desire for change meets a safe and constructive therapeutic environment. In his work with clients, he supports the healing process by exploring thoughts, emotions, and lived experiences with care and curiosity.

Taranpreet Kaur

Taranpreet is an intern counsellor who values creating a warm, welcoming, and supportive space for clients. She hopes to work with individuals across a wide range of concerns and life stages, and believes in meeting people where they are with care, respect, and compassion. Her approach is grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), while remaining flexible and responsive to each person’s unique needs. Having grown up in diverse cultural environments in the Middle East, Taranpreet brings a culturally responsive and inclusive perspective to her work. She speaks multiple languages and strives to create a space where clients feel safe, understood, and supported as they begin or continue their therapeutic journey.

Julio Ospina

Somatic, Narrative & Meaning-Centred Counselling | English & Spanish

Julio believes that challenges are a natural part of being human and that counselling can offer a meaningful space to understand our experiences, reconnect with our strengths, and discover new ways of moving forward.

As a Master of Counselling Psychology practicum student at Adler University, Julio brings a warm, compassionate, and attentive presence to his work with clients at Gentle Currents Therapy. He strives to create an emotionally safe, non-judgmental environment where people feel genuinely seen, heard, and respected as they explore the experiences, relationships, emotions, and stories shaping their lives.

Nicholas “Nick” Grosicki, BA

Graduate Counselling Intern

Nick brings warmth, empathy, and genuine curiosity to his work with clients. He is completing his Master of Education in Counselling at the University of New Brunswick and holds a BA in Psychology with a Minor in Counselling and Human Development from Simon Fraser University.

His previous helping experience includes crisis-line support and working with youth on the autism spectrum. Nick’s developing counselling approach is relational, CBT-informed, and meaning-centred, with interests in anxiety, emotional wellbeing, identity, relationships, life transitions, and supporting children, adolescents, and young adults.

Nick seeks to create a compassionate, nonjudgmental space where people feel genuinely heard and can explore what matters most to them. He practises under the clinical supervision of Carlie Dinwoodie, MA.

Areas of Focus: Anxiety & Emotional Wellbeing • Children, Adolescents & Young Adults • Identity & Meaning • Life Transitions • Relationships • CBT-Informed Counselling

The People Behind the Care

Clinical Care Begins With Human Connection