Babak, a man with short dark hair and a beard, wears a light gray button-up shirt and black pants while standing against a plain light gray background.

Babak Farzaneh

Clinical Faculty Supervisor

Adler Community Health Services

Vancouver

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self.”- Dogen

bfarzaneh@adler.edu

OVERVIEW

For more than 15 years, Babak Farzaneh has worked alongside children and adolescents, couples and families, individuals, and groups, offering care in public and nonprofit agencies, schools, private practice, and therapy training institutions. His approach is guided by humanistic principles and a deep belief in the power of authentic relationships.

At Adler Community Health Services, Babak extends this philosophy to his role as a supervisor, encouraging students to meet their clients with courage and presence, and to see each therapeutic encounter as an opportunity for genuine connection.

MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS

  • BCACC

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations
  • Vancouver Couple and Family Institute, EFT Couples Workshop Facilitator May 2017
  • Created, led and facilitated a well-received a full one day Introduction to EFT workshop for Touchstone Family Association Services
  • Vancouver Couple and Family Institute, EFT Family Workshop Facilitator Nov. 2016
  • Created, led and facilitated a one day province-wide workshop on Emotionally Focused Family Therapy at the Children’s Hospital to service providers including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and mental health workers.
  • Vancouver Couple and Family Institute, EFT Couples Workshop Facilitator Aug. 2015
  • Co-led a full 4 day Introduction to EFT workshop at the Trinity Western University for students from Kenya
  • Vancouver Hebrew Academy Oct 2024 – June 2025
  • Developed and led weekly culturally sensitive Social-Emotional Lessons school-wide to Elementary School Students
  • Presented workshops for teachers on Social Emotional Learning and Evidence-Based Interventions for Teachers during their Professional Development Training
  • Provided culturally relevant psycho-education on the importance of a healthy and secure attachment bond to Parents and the Community
  • Ministry of Children and Family Development
  • Led various workshops including Child and Youth Mental Health Parent Connect Program, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills group to adolescents and their caregivers, and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy consult group for mental health clinicians.

LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT

  • May 2025 – Present: Grief Circle
    Facilitating a community care model for residents of the Downtown East Side experiencing grief due to loss of loved ones, housing, incarceration.
  • Apr. 2023 – Present – First Nations Health Authority, Mental Health Provider
    Empowering First Nation adults and adolescents by providing free clinical counselling services through the First Nations Health Authority
  • Mar. 2014 – Aug. 2014 – Kinnections Mentor – Urban Native Youth Association
    Empowered First Nations adolescents to connect with community resources and develop their potential.
  • Sep. 2012 – Dec. 2014 – Refugee Trauma-Informed Committee, Committee Member
    Increased cultural competencies through discussion and consultations with experts in the field of cross-cultural counselling; implementing cultural sensitive evidence-based trauma training for child and youth mental health clinicians
  • Sep. 2005 – Sep. 2011 – Delta Youth Suicide Prevention Committee, Committee Member
    Revised and distributed the Delta Child and Youth Suicide Prevention Protocol to various community agencies and schools to aid prevention of youth suicide in Delta
  • Sep. 2004 – Sep. 2005 – Canadian Mental Health Association of Delta, Board Member
    Participated in meetings to discuss direction of services in the community