ISHANI CHAKRAVORTY BC CLINICAL COUNSELOR
M.SC. COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY, M.SC. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
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Ishani Chakravorty is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), clinical supervisor, and neuroscience-informed therapist providing evidence-based mental health services at Gentle Currents Therapy in Langley, British Columbia and online across BC. Verified by the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), Ishani brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to therapy, integrating scientific insight into brain function with a warm, collaborative, and person-centred approach to emotional healing and personal growth.
Ishani holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Counselling from Keele University in England, as well as a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from King’s College London. Alongside her private practice at Gentle Currents, she serves as an instructor and faculty member at the Vancouver College of Counsellor Training (VCCT), anchoring her clinical work in active academic instruction and professional counselor education. Her advanced training allows her to support clients through both psychological and neuroscience-informed perspectives, helping individuals better understand the relationship between thoughts, emotions, behaviors, stress, and nervous system functioning.
Her approach to therapy is grounded in compassion, curiosity, emotional safety, and practical evidence-based interventions that support meaningful and sustainable change.
Ishani works collaboratively with individuals navigating a wide range of emotional, behavioral, relational, and mental health challenges. Her integrative therapeutic approach combines scientific understanding with emotionally attuned care to help clients develop resilience, self-awareness, emotional regulation, and healthier patterns of coping and connection.
Her clinical work draws from:
Ishani’s background in neuroscience allows her to help clients better understand the connection between brain function, emotional regulation, chronic stress, anxiety, and mood-related challenges. Her neuroscience-informed perspective supports individuals experiencing emotional overwhelm, persistent worry, panic symptoms, burnout, nervous system dysregulation, and depressive patterns that impact daily functioning and overall wellbeing.
<p>In alignment with the advanced nervous system modalities at Gentle Currents Therapy, Ishani integrates neurofeedback-informed approaches into her clinical practice. As a Certified LENS Neurofeedback Technician, she combines clinical psychoeducation and targeted, neuroscientifically grounded frameworks with evidence-based therapeutic approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and attachment-based strategies. This approach helps clients develop practical coping skills, improve stress responses, strengthen emotional resilience, and create healthier behavioral and relational patterns for long-term psychological wellbeing.
In addition to individual counselling, Ishani has experience developing and facilitating structured men’s group therapy programs focused on emotional wellness, communication, relational stress, identity, and personal development. She integrates psychoeducation and collaborative mental health support to create psychologically safe environments where men can engage in meaningful conversations around emotional regulation, vulnerability, stress management, relationships, and mental health.
This growing area of focus reflects Gentle Currents Therapy’s broader commitment to supporting emotional resilience, healthy relationships, and accessible mental health care for diverse populations.
Ishani’s academic and research background reflects her longstanding interest in neuroscience, behavioral health, and psychological wellbeing. Her scientific research includes published work exploring extracellular cell signaling and molecular neuroscience processes (Multi-tasking Sulf1/Sulf2 enzymes, 2018).
Throughout her academic career, Ishani also served in student leadership and international student representation roles, reflecting her ongoing commitment to inclusive, cross-cultural, and community-oriented mental health support.
Working within the trauma-informed and neurofeedback-focused clinical framework developed by Dr. Michael Dadson, Ishani provides collaborative, evidence-based care that integrates neuroscience-informed counselling with compassionate therapeutic support for long-term emotional wellbeing and personal growth.
