Nazanin Moghadami

Politician, Registered Clinical Counsellor & Supervisor, Private practice, AMS Sexual Assault Center, EVA BC, Rainbow Refugee Society, CWHWC

I'm an activist, community organizer and clinical counsellor living in British Columbia. My passion and expertise involves clinical, community and educational work in: anti-racism, women's rights, LGBTQ rights, gender-based violence, sexual assault, mental health, refugees, immigrants, SOGIE, trauma-informed care, Iranian and Middle Eastern politics, women's movement

Media

Nazanin Moghadami | BC Greens' MLA Candidate for Vancouver-Kensington

Did you know there is a 2-year waitlist for a ♀️ in Vancouver to see a funded sexual assault counsellor? That more than 1,000 individuals have lost their lives to overdose in 2020? That @bcndp scraped a bill banning conversion therapy in BC?

You have the power to change this.

Kitchen table chat with Tonye Aganaba & BC Green MLA candidate Nazanin Moghadami

Iranians Have Learned to Fear U.S. Wrath — and Canada’s Complicity

Biography

Nazanin Moghadami is a feminist, clinical counsellor, activist, and was a former MLA candidate for BC Green Party in 2020 election. She is currently serving as a board member for the Pacifica Treatment Center, support manager at Rainbow Refugee Society supporting LGBTQ refugees, and clinical supervisor at Sexual Assault support Center at UBC. She is also the co-executive director of Catherine White Holman Welness Center, a community health center in Vancouver that provides mental health and legal support to the trans and nonbinary folks in BC.

Most recently, she is involved in organizing in support of the Women.Life.Freedom revolution in Iran.
She has been contracted by many agencies and organizations across BC to deliver training, panels, talks on aforementioned issues.

Expertise

  • LGBTQ
  • violence against women
  • gender-based violence
  • trans and non-binary
  • trauma
  • sexual assault
  • mental health
  • medical and mental health for LGBTQ community
  • hormonal assessments for transitiions
  • refugees
  • immigrants
  • persecution for sexual orientation and identity

Education/Éducation

  • San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety
    Cultural Safety
    Certificat, 2019
  • Adler University
    Counselling Psychology
    Master of Counselling Psychology, 2015