Haven Faculty
Karla Osborne
Karla Osborne, RTC, CIMHP, CFAP, CTP, CertHCS, is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional, Internationally Certified Food Addiction Professional, and a Certified Trauma Professional with a Certificate in Haven Counselling Skills. She has been involved with the Haven since 2012 and works in private practice as a counsellor, group facilitator and educator. […]
Annika Raithby
Annika Raithby is a group facilitator who is passionate about supporting and educating people to be more connected to themselves, their friends, and their family. She believes that this kind of personal development work is necessary to help people feel more of themselves, expand their passions and make an impact in their lives and the […]
Jane Geesman
Jane Geesman MFA has over 40 years’ experience as an actor (onstage and on film), director and teacher, and has trained and/or led programs at The Haven since 1993. In 2001 she and Sarah Lucht developed Act Natural, a workshop that uses a blend of actor-training and personal-development concepts to explore communication, creativity, and the […]
Sarah Lucht
Sarah Lucht is a professional actor, educator and coach. A member of Actors' Equity and the Screen Actors Guild, she has 35 years’ experience in theatre, film and television. She has been training and leading programs at The Haven since 1995. With Jane Geesman she leads Act Natural, a program which combines actors' training techniques […]
Elfi Dillon-Shaw
Elfi Emaya Shaw, DipC, has facilitated sexuality retreats for women, all genders, single, and partnered folks for twenty-five years. She has a “hands-on” practical approach to teaching. Her goal is to help each person open to their own unique erotic nature, to enrich their bodily and spiritual life, deepen their relationship to self, nature and […]
Jane Kilthei
Jane Kilthei (she/they) RM (Hon), DipC brings an open heart and a desire to create a more compassionate world to the programs she leads and assists. She co-leads “Communication Basics: connecting when it matters”, “Communication Intensive: from Fundamentals to Mastery”, and assists at Come Alive, Couples Alive and other Haven core programs. Jane believes that […]
Greg Gurel
Greg Gurel MPCC-S RPC ACC is a long time Havenite that has been involved with the Anger, Boundaries and Safety program since 1994 and became the leader in 2007. Currently living in Vancouver where he has a private counselling practice, Greg has also developed curriculum and taught counselling and coaching certification courses at a Vancouver […]
Catherine Fallis
Catherine Fallis RCC, DipC, PhD has more than 25 years' experience using movement and the expressive arts in her work with individuals and groups, both in her private practice and in the public school system in the Vancouver area. She studied Dance/Movement Therapy at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. She leads Moving into Connection at […]