Samantha Short 

Registered Clinical Counsellor (#21453)

Samantha founded Calm Waters Counselling Collective in 2025 with two primary goals: Increase access to counselling services & Create a community of counsellors that values collaboration, authentic connections, and continued growth.

In pursuit of those goals, Calm Waters offers group counselling covering a variety of topics (Social Anxiety, DBT skills, ADHD), individual counselling, consultation teams and of course- events for counsellors to connect!

Samantha also works with Fraser health as a crisis clinician for the Child & Youth Emergency Response Team, providing clinical consultation to emergency room, physicians and psychiatrists for children, youth and young adults who present with a mental health crisis.

Part of reducing barriers to accessing mental health care includes managing financial burdens, as such she is currently offering sliding scale counselling at Calm Waters.

While born and raised in British Columbia, she completed all of her higher education in the United States. During her time at the University of Pennsylvania, she completed over 1200 hours of internship which included biopsychosocial assessments, individual therapy, and group counselling.

MS.Ed. Mental Health & School Counselling

University of Pennsylvania

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

B.S. Psychology & French

University of Denver

Certifications & Trainings

CBT for Suicide Prevention, Beck Institute, July 2025

Child and Adolescent Mental Health- Advanced Practice - Douglas College- April 2025

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy- Level 1 ( Fraser Health Authority).

SMART Recovery Facilitator

San’yas Anti-Racism Indigenous Cultural Safety Training (2023).

Gottman Method Couples Therapy Level 1 (The Gottman Institute, 2024).