Adriana Karina Perez, MSW, RSW

Adriana Karina Perez is a Registered Social Worker with eight years of clinical experience, currently in private practice in Squamish, British Columbia, offering both in-person and virtual therapy to adults across BC and Ontario. As an immigrant from Venezuela and a person of colour, she brings a grounded, cross-cultural lens to her work and offers therapy fluently in both English and Spanish — one of few Spanish-language therapy options in her region.

Adriana's clinical work centers on anxiety, depression, trauma and PTSD, relationship difficulties, and major life transitions, drawing on humanistic, evidence-based, and experiential modalities including AEDP, Emotion Focused Therapy, Internal Family Systems, Polyvagal-informed work, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and CBT.

Within the psychedelic space, Adriana offers Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAT) for medically and psychologically appropriate clients, working within a dual-therapist model alongside a supervising medical team. For psilocybin- and MDMA-assisted therapy specifically, she does not submit or manage Health Canada Special Access Program (SAP) applications — that step requires a prescribing physician or nurse practitioner. What she offers is the therapeutic support that surrounds an already-approved treatment: for clients who already have a prescriber pursuing SAP access, Adriana provides trained preparation, in-session support, and integration, grounded in her TheraPsil and MAPS training.

Adriana's approach is also explicitly grounded in harm reduction. For people who use substances — psychedelic or otherwise — outside of a clinical setting, she offers non-judgmental, informed support rather than an assumption that abstinence is the only valid goal, honouring each person's autonomy and lived experience.

Outside her private practice, Adriana leads a government-funded internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (iCBT) program at GreenShield Health, providing clinical supervision to a team of therapists delivering care through the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program.

Credentials & Certifications:

• Master of Social Work — University of Toronto (Health & Mental Health)
• Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (Level 1) — Katalyst Mental Health
• Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Training — TheraPsil
• MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD — MAPS
• Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) Immersion — AEDP Institute
• Emotion Focused Therapy (Level 1) — The Greenberg Institute of EFT
• Clinical Applications of Internal Family Systems — PESI
• Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD — EBT3 Psychology
• Music for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy — Wavepaths
• Dearmouring - Somagetic, Nathan Marcuzzi
• CBT for Anxiety - OISE