Therapists in Vancouver, BC

Welcome to a warm, compassionate, and playful space where healing begins! I am a dedicated culturally sensitive and trauma-informed therapist. I aim to help clients work towards integration and wholeness by targeting the root of your symptoms to get you unstuck, allowing you to move forward in life. I work to provide personalized support for individuals seeking to heal from their past wounds and lingering symptoms. My goal is to create a safer and inclusive space to support you on your journey towards healing and transformation.

I specialize in sexual struggles and work with adults and adolescents on topics ranging from sex, sex work, sexuality, sexual dysfunctions, sex/porn "addiction", queer-identity, polyamory, life transitions, childhood trauma, medical trauma, panic/anxiety. I also work with couples and families drawing from Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Which features attachment based interventions grounded within finding empathy, compassion, and care for both yourself and your partner while creating new patterns of interacting.

I'm a registered clinical counsellor with over 20 years of experience in the helping profession. I'm passionate about supporting clients to heal the relationship they have with themselves and others. If you are seeking meaningful change in your life, and long to feel more at home and fulfilled in yourself and your relationships I want to help. Whether you’re recovering from heartbreak, struggling to assert yourself in your most important relationships, having difficulty making decisions, or are overwhelmed by anxious thoughts and feelings, we'll work together towards your healing and growth.

As a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), I offer online counselling to individuals and couples facing issues such as anxiety, trauma, and relationship concerns. I help people understand how past experiences may have shaped their patterns and beliefs, and support learning new ways of relating to self and others that may increase connection, intimacy, and authenticity. I help clients learn things such as effective communication skills, how to set boundaries, how to manage stress and anxiety, and how to regulate their nervous systems so that they can navigate their daily lives with more ease and joy.

When we’re alone, facing what causes us pain and discomfort can be confusing and overwhelming. I believe that therapy is the doorway to self-knowing and that the most profound healing occurs when exploration happens in the presence of a safe and supportive other. My goal as a therapist is to provide a warm, empathetic, and non-judgmental space where together we can explore and work through the difficult feelings, thoughts, and experiences that are impacting your personal functioning, relationships, and healing.

Our team aims to help you create and discover a life worth living for and have fulfilling relationships with yourself and with others. Living from a place of fear/anger/resentment right now might be impacting how you see the world every single day. It may also affect your relationships with your family members, partners, and/or children (young and adults), friends, even coworkers, and you need help to make sense of it all. Every day, you may experience conflict, lack of connection, fear of something, or other challenges that gets in the way of you finding that sense of belonging and ownership over your life.

Feeling disconnected? Perhaps you're struggling to exist in a society that doesn't feel like its accepting of you? I specialize in working with clients who often feel they diverge from societal norms. I have special interest in working with clients who may describe themselves as belonging to these groups: Neurodiverse, LGBTQIA+, Ethically Non-Monogamous, Kinky, and/or those involved in non-traditional family/relationship dynamics. If this is you, now that you are not alone! My experience may not be the same as yours, but through collaboration, we can work together to help find the best treatment methods for your unique situation.

It is my belief that as humans we are biologically wired to heal; each of us already holds the internal resources needed to grow and thrive. As a counsellor, I would be honoured to walk alongside you as a guide in uncovering these resources, offering warmth and a grounding presence alongside evidence-based interventions to assist you on this journey. I offer an integrated approach to counselling, utilizing attachment-based, emotion-focused, and body-based practices alongside internal parts work in my practice. I believe it is important to create space for the body, mind, and spirit to be present in our work together.

If you've been doing it on our own, and feel like your current tool kit just isn't working, I invite you to connect with me to help you add to your set or even sharpen what you've already got. If you are having difficulty with boundaries and communication, struggling with the stresses of daily life, or simply seeking personal growth, I can help. Whatever your reason is for seeking therapy, know that you're not alone. We will work together to get you where you want to be.

There comes a time when we realise our past patterns and tools aren't helping us move forward in life. My goal is to provide you with the space and guidance to explore how your patterns of behaviour, past trauma, and experiences formed the person you are today. We will work together to explore past patterns, build healthy coping strategies, and strengthen resilience. Whether you’re looking to explore past experiences, build concrete tools to cope, or build healthy relationships with your loved ones, I provide an individualised, trauma-informed approach to therapy to adapt to your unique needs.

At the heart of this therapeutic practice is the idea that problems lie between you and others as opposed to within you. How do you relate to your loved ones, strangers, and the world at large? Questions such as these will help you understand not only what you could change in your life, but also how to change it. The cultivation of truth occurs through building lasting trust: This is the core of working effectively towards solutions and change together. A heart of non-judgment, encouragement, empowerment, and tools are provided so that you can work through trauma from the past as well as practice new ways of living in the world.

I provide scientifically supported assessment and treatments to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, and have over 16 years experience with a wide range of concerns and psychosocial conditions including anxiety and panic attacks/reactions, attachment patterns, stress and trauma related conditions including PTSD, nervous system dysregulation, chronic pain and illness, mood problems including depression, parenting difficulties, relationship and marital problems, problematic personality patterns, self-harm behaviours, suicidal ideation, self-worth, grief and bereavement, life transitions, and adjustment issues.

I work with adults and adolescents with a wide range of emotional and interpersonal challenges, including but not limited to, trauma, depression, anxiety, learning difficulties, ADHD, relational conflict, existential questions, life transitions, academic challenges, and school avoidance. My passion is career and future planning and I have experience working with both adults and youth in this area. My aim is to help individuals to identify their strengths, to cope with challenges and to ultimately meet their goals while developing a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationships with others.

Are you struggling with sleepless nights, racing thoughts, loss or sadness? Are issues from the past returning causing you distress and feelings of hopelessness? Is substance use causing problems? Like so many people, you may have experienced an increase in your struggles, leading to higher levels of anxiety, depression or a re-emergence of past traumas. Anxiety, depression and trauma are stressful and affect your physical health, emotional balance, and mental clarity. Understanding your experiences, learning to manage them, and cultivating health during uncertain times is crucial!

Welcome to sdkcounselling.com. I have a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology and worked for the last 16 years in The B.C. Reproductive Mental Health Program out of Children's & Women's Hospital specializing in Perinatal & Postpartum Depression & Anxiety, including; intrusive thoughts, birth trauma, pregnancy loss, adjustment to parenthood, bonding, relationship stress. more. My therapeutic technique is varied, creative & tailored to the individual needs of each client. Recently expanded my practice ( personal experience) to include chronic health conditions; long covid, autoimmune, chronic fatigue to name a few.

I work with women who are ready to commit to a deep & conscious spiritual process of healing & transformation. Whether wanting to recover from trauma, feeling lost inside, depressed, anxious, empty, I am committed to supporting your journey. Convinced that no healing happens if body is not involved, my approach weaves somatic therapy, EMDR & cyclical awareness from a humanistic & client centred stance and keeps developing as I keep deepening my research in the areas of trauma, attachment theory, ancestral legacies of trauma & energy healing.

Dr. Araujo is a registered psychologist in BC, and BCIA Board Certified in Neurofeedback. She provides psychological and QEEG assessments and neurotherapy services for her clients. Her goal is to identify strengths, areas of dysfunction and improve mental health using neurofeedback as a treatment modality. She specializes in ADHD, anxiety, autism, concussion/mild traumatic brain injury, depression, memory loss, PTSD/trauma, and sleep problems in adults and children. Neurofeedback and biofeedback can also be used to improve peak performance, meditation, heart rate variability, and lessen pain and inflammation in the brain.

I am committed to generating value for clients by focusing on their abilities, goals and strengths, as well as recognizing the importance of being flexible, accessible and collaborative. I focus on a person’s individual nature and encourage them to take more of a lead in therapy so that they can discover their own solutions and use their personal intuition to find wisdom, growth, healing and fulfillment within themselves. I offer a safe, non-judgmental and nurturing space for clients to express themselves and process difficult feelings, life transitions and daily struggles.

Are you struggling with Anxiety, Stress, Trust, Self Esteem, Internal Conflict, Relational Instability, and a sense the world around you is not always a safe or predictable place? Do you feel disconnected from your physical body and the emotional resources it holds, or has your body felt like a battleground of unpredictable symptoms? Have past experiences left you feeling stuck in emotional and behavioral patterns that are no longer serving you? If this fits for you, and other therapies just haven't seemed to get to the root of your concerns, I invite you to explore a different, experiential neuroscience-focused approach, to healing