Julia Niles is an IFMGA Mountain Guide and a Registered Clinical Counselor (RCC) in Squamish, British Columbia. Her passions include rock climbing, skiing, diversity, inclusion, and self-compasssion. She would like to acknowledge her privilege and gratitude to work, live, and play on the unceded lands of the Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish) Nation. She is working to improve her actions and language to decolonize counselling and guiding.