Nicole Valor is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) at Gentle Currents Therapy, providing counselling and neurofeedback services for individuals, couples, and families in Langley, British Columbia and online across BC. Entering her second decade of clinical practice, Nicole is known for her warm, grounded, and authentic approach, helping clients navigate some of life’s most difficult and transformative experiences with compassion, clarity, and meaningful therapeutic support.
Nicole specializes in relationship and couples counselling, trauma therapy, ADHD support, grief and loss, separation and divorce, parenting and step-parenting challenges, blended family dynamics, emotional dysregulation, and major life transitions. She works with clients experiencing relational stress, attachment injuries, anxiety, overwhelm, family conflict, identity shifts, and the lasting emotional effects of trauma.
Holding a Master’s degree in Professional Counselling, Nicole integrates a range of evidence-based and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches tailored to each client’s unique needs. Her clinical work draws from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples, somatic therapy, attachment-based approaches, mindfulness practices, and trauma-informed care. Nicole blends practical therapeutic strategies with deeper emotional and nervous system work to support lasting healing, resilience, and personal growth.
Nicole supports couples and individuals navigating communication difficulties, emotional disconnection, intimacy concerns, attachment wounds, conflict cycles, separation, and relationship transitions. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and attachment-based approaches, she helps clients strengthen emotional connection, improve communication, and build healthier, more secure relationships.
Nicole works with individuals experiencing the effects of trauma, chronic stress, grief and loss, heartbreak, emotional overwhelm, and significant life transitions. Her compassionate and trauma-informed approach supports clients in developing emotional regulation skills, increasing self-awareness, and rebuilding a stronger sense of safety, resilience, and connection.
Nicole is especially passionate about supporting individuals, couples, and families impacted by ADHD, executive functioning challenges, emotional dysregulation, and relational stress. She also works with parents, step-parents, and blended families navigating co-parenting challenges, family transitions, and evolving relationship dynamics with children and adolescents.
As part of the integrative services offered at Gentle Currents Therapy, Nicole incorporates LENS Neurofeedback into her practice to support nervous system regulation, emotional balance, improved focus, stress reduction, and overall mental wellness. As a Certified LENS Neurofeedback Technician, she utilizes this gentle, non-invasive technology to support communication with the central nervous system, helping clients improve regulation, resilience, and overall emotional wellbeing.
Nicole’s integrative approach combines psychotherapy and neurofeedback to help clients better understand the connection between the brain, body, emotions, relationships, and stress responses while creating meaningful and sustainable change. Working within the trauma-informed and neuroscience-focused clinical framework developed by Dr. Michael Dadson, Nicole provides collaborative, evidence-based care for individuals experiencing anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, executive functioning difficulties, trauma-related nervous system dysregulation, and emotional overwhelm
Nicole is committed to creating an inclusive, affirming, and culturally sensitive counselling environment where clients feel safe, respected, and genuinely understood. She welcomes individuals of all backgrounds and identities, including members of the LGBTQ+ community, and works collaboratively with clients to foster emotional healing, self-understanding, healthier coping strategies, and more fulfilling relationships.
Her additional training includes Childhood Complex Trauma, Neurofeedback, End Abuse Women’s Support, Parenting After Separation, Divorce Care, and Fraser Health Early Childhood Development programs.
Clients often describe therapy with Nicole as a supportive and trusted space where they feel deeply heard, meaningfully challenged, and empowered to move toward healthier relationships, emotional resilience, and lasting personal growth.
Whether clients are navigating trauma, ADHD-related struggles, relationship challenges, family conflict, identity development, grief and loss, or significant life changes, Nicole provides a compassionate and grounded space for healing, clarity, connection, and hope.
Working within the trauma-informed and neurofeedback-focused clinical framework developed by Dr. Michael Dadson, Nicole provides collaborative, evidence-based care that supports emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and long-term personal growth.
