“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”

- Leonard Cohen

Richard Klein

Richard Richard works with individual clients and couples. He helps unravel the impacts of early life developmental deficits , trauma imprints and nervous system dis-regulation so that clients can navigate their lives with renewed purpose, energy and satisfaction. Richard brings insight and an attuned presence to his client work. In his practice he specializes in helping clients address and resolve past trauma and learn how to shift states of anxiety, depression so that they are better able to achieve important life goals. He is passionate in safely supporting couples to be clear eyed and open so that connection can be renewed and difficulty turned into learning.

Richard completed a four year course of studies in the Hakomi Method, a body-centred form of Psychotherapy in 2001. He studied with Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz and master teacher Jon Eisman. He specializes in Body Centered Psychotherapy and Couples Therapy. In addition, he completed the mindfulness based stress reduction training ( MBSR ) with Jon Kabat-Zinn in 2008.

Richard was the founder and director of Mountain Waters Retreats, a nature based wellness centre that he operated from 2005 until 2020. Mountain Waters ran programs on healing with addiction, trauma resolution, meditation, yoga and permaculture.

Richard completed a two year training program in Relational Somatic Therapy with Judith Mariah Moser in 2017. He is presently registered as a therapeutic counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada ( ACCT). 

Richard is the father of five adult children and currently has nine grandchildren.

In 2020 in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic Richard co-founded B.C’s Youth Climate Corps which has become a provincially funded employment, youth training and empowerment initiative focused upon climate action.

In 2025 Richard published the book, The Climate within Us: Leadership, Integration and Regeneration in a Warming World. The book offers a road map of how we can source the same deep intelligence that animates the body, and all of nature, to steady ourselves and find renewed purpose and connection in times of uncertainty and challenge.

As a counselling therapist I am engaged in helping clients build new capacities. Creating an atmosphere of warmth, safety and respect that supports people to share their experience, face past emotions, and learn new ways to show up in their lives so that relationships can be enriched and limitations overcome. As this happens people step toward the change they wish to see in their lives. When we are able to give voice to our experience, our hopes and fears, within the context of a safe and nourishing therapeutic relationship, we let go of limiting beliefs from the past and can access a newfound authenticity. We move from numbness, compartmentalization and difficulty, toward growth, healing and wholeness.

Yogita Bouchard

Yogita brings presence and a quiet passion to her work with clients. She holds a deep trust in the wisdom held in our own bodies, pure emotions, and life experience. In her work Yogita helps clear a path so you may access our Knowing, rewire self-limiting scripts from the past and gain the freedom to choose how we wish to respond  to life in a more balanced and empowered way.

Yogita has been working with clients in the Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth fields for over 30 years. She has worked as a somatic therapist since 2000 after a five year course of studies in Hakomi, a body-centred form of Psychotherapy. She opened Canada’s first Watsu aquatic therapy facility in Nelson, working with clients in a unique warm water environment that allowed for the release of often unconscious holding patterns in the body. Yogita also worked as a massage therapist who specialized in myo-fascial release. Deepening her understanding of how each person’s unique history is held in their physiology in ways often inaccessible to cognition. (Her work increasingly has moved in the direction of helping clients find freedom and ease by changing the way the past is held by the tissues themselves.)

In 2017 Yogita became a registered therapeutic counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT) She has studied with Hakomi founder Ron Kurtz and master teacher Jon Eisman and has focused further upon working with trauma with teachers Mariah Moser, Sharon Stanley, Taryn Prodan, Merete Brantbjerg , Thomas Hubl and various teachers in the Bodynamic System from Europe.

  In Yogita’s own words “I have immense gratitude and humility for the people who have trusted me to hold with them the tender and vulnerable places, and for those teachers and mentors, who have held me in this same way. I see my work as a midwife of the soul. Supporting people to gather the pieces of themselves they have lost along the way on this path of life.”

Yogita is the mother of five adult children and currently has nine granchildren. She and Richard have been married for 30 years.