EMDR Therapists in Vancouver, BC
I integrate EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and talk therapy in a way that is paced, thoughtful, and tailored to you.
You may be used to holding a lot on your own. On the outside things can look functional, but internally there may be overthinking, self-doubt, or a sense of disconnection from yourself. Many of the people I work with are neurodivergent, queer, or bicultural, and are navigating the impact of emotionally unavailable or inconsistent relationships. They often come to therapy wanting deeper clarity, healthier boundaries, and more ease in how they relate to themselves and others.
I integrate EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and talk therapy in a way that is paced, thoughtful, and tailored to you.
You may be used to holding a lot on your own. On the outside things can look functional, but internally there may be overthinking, self-doubt, or a sense of disconnection from yourself. Many of the people I work with are neurodivergent, queer, or bicultural, and are navigating the impact of emotionally unavailable or inconsistent relationships. They often come to therapy wanting deeper clarity, healthier boundaries, and more ease in how they relate to themselves and others.
As a trauma psychotherapist, I take an integrative, multi-layered approach, drawing on Compassionate Inquiry (CI), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE), EMDR, mindfulness, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
I welcome people of all cultures, ages, genders, sexualities, immigrants, refugees, and LGBTQIA2S+ community members. As a BIPOC woman raised in Brazil and a settler in Canada for over 20 years, I bring a multicultural, compassionate lens, exploring with curiosity the influences shaping each person’s experience.
As a trauma psychotherapist, I take an integrative, multi-layered approach, drawing on Compassionate Inquiry (CI), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Experiencing (SE), EMDR, mindfulness, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
I welcome people of all cultures, ages, genders, sexualities, immigrants, refugees, and LGBTQIA2S+ community members. As a BIPOC woman raised in Brazil and a settler in Canada for over 20 years, I bring a multicultural, compassionate lens, exploring with curiosity the influences shaping each person’s experience.
Explore practical coping tools, mindfulness and acceptance practices, nature-based therapy, EMDR, emotional and nervous system regulation, somatic therapies, creative visualization, and dreamwork.
Experienced Counsellor for complex trauma, PTSD, vicarious trauma, anxiety, burnout, breakups, life transitions, writers and filmmakers.. Providing a supportive space (in my peaceful office, walk & talk, or by telephone) where you and your deepest concerns matter.
Explore practical coping tools, mindfulness and acceptance practices, nature-based therapy, EMDR, emotional and nervous system regulation, somatic therapies, creative visualization, and dreamwork.
Experienced Counsellor for complex trauma, PTSD, vicarious trauma, anxiety, burnout, breakups, life transitions, writers and filmmakers.. Providing a supportive space (in my peaceful office, walk & talk, or by telephone) where you and your deepest concerns matter.
I have helped parents and mothers through their unique journeys of pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting for over a decade as a midwife, and now as a clinical counsellor. Within my counselling practice, I work with people who are somewhere along their reproductive or parenting journeys. I also work with individuals and couples who are at other life stages, such as looking to heal, grieve, and find balance or direction. I am also a counsellor at pregnancy loss and termination clinics in Vancouver, providing decision-making guidance, as well as coping, healing, and trauma support.
I have helped parents and mothers through their unique journeys of pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting for over a decade as a midwife, and now as a clinical counsellor. Within my counselling practice, I work with people who are somewhere along their reproductive or parenting journeys. I also work with individuals and couples who are at other life stages, such as looking to heal, grieve, and find balance or direction. I am also a counsellor at pregnancy loss and termination clinics in Vancouver, providing decision-making guidance, as well as coping, healing, and trauma support.
Using tools like EMDR, IFS, and the Gottman Method, I offer a warm, honest space where it’s safe to feel, explore, laugh, cry, and grow.
Are you struggling with anxiety, desire, feeling emotionally or sexually disconnected from your partner, communication issues, sex addiction, sex abuse in your past or navigating painful sex? Feeling stuck in relationship or you are single and wondering why patterns keep repeating? You want clarity, confidence, pleasure, and deeper connection with yourself and others. You're curious, open to growth, and ready to understand what's really going on beneath the surface. You're not broken, you’re just ready for more.
Using tools like EMDR, IFS, and the Gottman Method, I offer a warm, honest space where it’s safe to feel, explore, laugh, cry, and grow.
Are you struggling with anxiety, desire, feeling emotionally or sexually disconnected from your partner, communication issues, sex addiction, sex abuse in your past or navigating painful sex? Feeling stuck in relationship or you are single and wondering why patterns keep repeating? You want clarity, confidence, pleasure, and deeper connection with yourself and others. You're curious, open to growth, and ready to understand what's really going on beneath the surface. You're not broken, you’re just ready for more.
I use trauma-informed, attachment-based counselling approaches including EMDR, Gestalt, Transpersonal, spiritual and experiential methods.
Counselling is a time just for you – to explore what is going on in your life in a safe and confidential space.
Hi, I’m Sandy. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, past trauma, relationships, or other concerns, I am here to support you with warmth and steadiness.
Whatever is going on for you, I'm here to listen. I am experienced in working with clients who are going through sudden complex life transitions, such as grief, loss, illness, divorce, approaching end-of-life, etc. I have had success in helping clients with chronic pain, and PTSD, including birth trauma, childhood trauma, neglect & bullying.
I use trauma-informed, attachment-based counselling approaches including EMDR, Gestalt, Transpersonal, spiritual and experiential methods.
Counselling is a time just for you – to explore what is going on in your life in a safe and confidential space.
Hi, I’m Sandy. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, past trauma, relationships, or other concerns, I am here to support you with warmth and steadiness.
Whatever is going on for you, I'm here to listen. I am experienced in working with clients who are going through sudden complex life transitions, such as grief, loss, illness, divorce, approaching end-of-life, etc. I have had success in helping clients with chronic pain, and PTSD, including birth trauma, childhood trauma, neglect & bullying.
We work strategically to build tools for emotional regulation (DBT), increasing your feelings of safety and self-understanding and heal underlying trauma ( EMDR).
Our team of masters level therapists have been hand-picked to join the Emotion Wise team because of their extensive experience and skill and specialized training in working with clients with trauma, anxiety, and emotion regulation issues. We use a variety of evidence-based approaches including approaches EMDR, DBT, ACT, CBT, AEDP, and Narrative therapy.
We work strategically to build tools for emotional regulation (DBT), increasing your feelings of safety and self-understanding and heal underlying trauma ( EMDR).
Our team of masters level therapists have been hand-picked to join the Emotion Wise team because of their extensive experience and skill and specialized training in working with clients with trauma, anxiety, and emotion regulation issues. We use a variety of evidence-based approaches including approaches EMDR, DBT, ACT, CBT, AEDP, and Narrative therapy.
My core therapeutic lens is Adlerian psychodynamic therapy, but I also draw upon interventions and tools from other modalities such as trauma-informed approaches, EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing), narrative therapy, parts work, emotion focused therapy (EFT), inner child work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
I offer individual and couples counselling to neurotypical and neurodistinct clients (e.g. ADHD, autism) to work on issues such as, but not limited to, guilt and shame, anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, trauma, communication skills, grief and loss, and disorganisation. Our sessions together would be about collaboratively increasing insight, clarity and encouragement, while also building a customised “menu” of practical resources to help reorient your daily life.
I offer counselling primarily in English, and can also support clients who are more comfortable expressing themselves in Malay or Indonesian.
My core therapeutic lens is Adlerian psychodynamic therapy, but I also draw upon interventions and tools from other modalities such as trauma-informed approaches, EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing), narrative therapy, parts work, emotion focused therapy (EFT), inner child work, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
I offer individual and couples counselling to neurotypical and neurodistinct clients (e.g. ADHD, autism) to work on issues such as, but not limited to, guilt and shame, anxiety, depression, emotional dysregulation, trauma, communication skills, grief and loss, and disorganisation. Our sessions together would be about collaboratively increasing insight, clarity and encouragement, while also building a customised “menu” of practical resources to help reorient your daily life.
I offer counselling primarily in English, and can also support clients who are more comfortable expressing themselves in Malay or Indonesian.
In-Person or Online (Kitsilano/Vancouver): Over 15 years ago I transitioned from working in Electrical/Project Engineering to Mental Health/Clinical Counselling and since then developed valuable professional experience working in psychiatric, clinical, community, addiction treatment, educational, career & private settings. I have completed my Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and hold two post-baccalaureate diplomas in Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) and Guidance Studies. Currently, I am the Clinical Director and Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) at MALM Counselling.
In-Person or Online (Kitsilano/Vancouver): Over 15 years ago I transitioned from working in Electrical/Project Engineering to Mental Health/Clinical Counselling and since then developed valuable professional experience working in psychiatric, clinical, community, addiction treatment, educational, career & private settings. I have completed my Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and hold two post-baccalaureate diplomas in Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) and Guidance Studies. Currently, I am the Clinical Director and Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) at MALM Counselling.
My approaches are grounded in Trauma-Informed, Decolonizing, Somatics and EMDR.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde. Hello, and welcome to Pamati Counselling. Pamati means listen in Cebuano. I am of mixed Asian ancestry, including Filipino, Chinese and Vietnamese. I was born in Toronto, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. The intersectional movements of MeToo, MMIWG, Black Lives Matter and FreePalestine inform my work.
My approaches are grounded in Trauma-Informed, Decolonizing, Somatics and EMDR.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde. Hello, and welcome to Pamati Counselling. Pamati means listen in Cebuano. I am of mixed Asian ancestry, including Filipino, Chinese and Vietnamese. I was born in Toronto, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. The intersectional movements of MeToo, MMIWG, Black Lives Matter and FreePalestine inform my work.
Amie Anderson & Associates Counselling Group
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW, RCC
Vancouver, BC V5K
At Amie Anderson & Associates, we are a team of experienced, compassionate therapists who work with youth, adults, couples, and families. Our clients come to us for support with a wide range of concerns—from everyday stress and relationship challenges to more complex mental health issues.
Many of the people we support experience mood challenges, including anxiety and depression. For some, these difficulties are connected to earlier traumatic experiences. We offer trauma-informed care and draw on evidence-based approaches in our work with clients.
At Amie Anderson & Associates, we are a team of experienced, compassionate therapists who work with youth, adults, couples, and families. Our clients come to us for support with a wide range of concerns—from everyday stress and relationship challenges to more complex mental health issues.
Many of the people we support experience mood challenges, including anxiety and depression. For some, these difficulties are connected to earlier traumatic experiences. We offer trauma-informed care and draw on evidence-based approaches in our work with clients.
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I support individuals navigating life transitions, self-esteem, burnout, anxiety, depression, chronic health struggles, and relational trauma. I work with many folks who are exploring or coming to understand their neurodivergence later in life, including the impacts of masking, burnout, and identity shifts that can come with this realization.
I offer an LGBTQ2S+ affirming space where we can hold the heavy things and welcome moments of levity, honouring your pace while gently moving toward growth, healing, and deeper self-understanding.
Hi there,
I support individuals navigating life transitions, self-esteem, burnout, anxiety, depression, chronic health struggles, and relational trauma. I work with many folks who are exploring or coming to understand their neurodivergence later in life, including the impacts of masking, burnout, and identity shifts that can come with this realization.
I offer an LGBTQ2S+ affirming space where we can hold the heavy things and welcome moments of levity, honouring your pace while gently moving toward growth, healing, and deeper self-understanding.
Suffering is an unavoidable part of the human experience. Yet, when you’re immersed in past or present struggles, it’s so natural to feel isolated, stuck, and unsure of how to move forward. The pain can become so overwhelming that it not only interferes with your ability to cope, but it also can rob you of your joy. I view counselling as a nurturing space for appreciating how you’ve supported yourself while also building a deeper sense of freedom, strength, and connection to what matters to you.
Suffering is an unavoidable part of the human experience. Yet, when you’re immersed in past or present struggles, it’s so natural to feel isolated, stuck, and unsure of how to move forward. The pain can become so overwhelming that it not only interferes with your ability to cope, but it also can rob you of your joy. I view counselling as a nurturing space for appreciating how you’ve supported yourself while also building a deeper sense of freedom, strength, and connection to what matters to you.
At Clearheart Counselling, we believe that emotional well-being and personal growth start with clarity – clarity about who you are, what you need, and how you can move forward in a positive direction – supporting you to get your life, and love, back on track. Whether it’s communication skills and tools, or identifying and resolving deeper core issues blocking your wellbeing, our team of committed professionals can help. There are several therapists on the team, each specializing in relationship, trauma, anxiety, depression, and recovery-related issues.
At Clearheart Counselling, we believe that emotional well-being and personal growth start with clarity – clarity about who you are, what you need, and how you can move forward in a positive direction – supporting you to get your life, and love, back on track. Whether it’s communication skills and tools, or identifying and resolving deeper core issues blocking your wellbeing, our team of committed professionals can help. There are several therapists on the team, each specializing in relationship, trauma, anxiety, depression, and recovery-related issues.
In 2022 I trained in EMDR.
Having completed an 8 month full time practicum at BC Cancer (Vancouver), my experience is primarily with critical and chronic illness. While at BC Cancer, I counselled both individuals living with cancer and their families (partners, adult children, youth, parents, and chosen family).
In 2022 I trained in EMDR.
Having completed an 8 month full time practicum at BC Cancer (Vancouver), my experience is primarily with critical and chronic illness. While at BC Cancer, I counselled both individuals living with cancer and their families (partners, adult children, youth, parents, and chosen family).
Using EMDR and embodied, attachment-focused therapy, we will work together – with compassion and curiousity – to help you find relief from emotional pain and distress and move towards what matters most to you.
Find compassion and connection to heal from trauma, PTSD, and distressing experiences; ease anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm; strengthen your relationships and shift attachment patterns; rebuild self-trust, boundaries, and connection; ease anger, shame, and self-criticism and find more meaning, balance, and calm in your daily life
Using EMDR and embodied, attachment-focused therapy, we will work together – with compassion and curiousity – to help you find relief from emotional pain and distress and move towards what matters most to you.
Find compassion and connection to heal from trauma, PTSD, and distressing experiences; ease anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm; strengthen your relationships and shift attachment patterns; rebuild self-trust, boundaries, and connection; ease anger, shame, and self-criticism and find more meaning, balance, and calm in your daily life
I use an integrative approach of person-centered, attachment theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, emotion-focused family therapy, EMDR and DBT depending on the needs of the client.
In the course of our lives, we inevitably encounter challenging periods and we do our best to navigate with the resources that we have. When the pain and distress become too difficult to cope, having a safe space and a trusted therapist to talk to can help. Allow me the privilege of relieving some of the burden, thereby fostering space necessary for personal growth and a hopeful future.
I use an integrative approach of person-centered, attachment theory, cognitive behavioral therapy, emotion-focused family therapy, EMDR and DBT depending on the needs of the client.
In the course of our lives, we inevitably encounter challenging periods and we do our best to navigate with the resources that we have. When the pain and distress become too difficult to cope, having a safe space and a trusted therapist to talk to can help. Allow me the privilege of relieving some of the burden, thereby fostering space necessary for personal growth and a hopeful future.
Being a human is hard. Sometimes, the waves of the human experience feel like they’re engulfing us, and we feel swallowed up by sorrow, terror, shame, stress, or confusion. Other times, we may feel so disconnected from ourselves and the world around us that we wonder if a meaningful life is possible. Perhaps there are parts of your mind and heart that are fighting with each other, and you’re wrestling with constant inner turmoil. Or maybe you are tired of repeating the same old patterns and finding yourself in the same place you once were: frustrated and perplexed as to how you can break out of a cycle that is no longer serving you.
Being a human is hard. Sometimes, the waves of the human experience feel like they’re engulfing us, and we feel swallowed up by sorrow, terror, shame, stress, or confusion. Other times, we may feel so disconnected from ourselves and the world around us that we wonder if a meaningful life is possible. Perhaps there are parts of your mind and heart that are fighting with each other, and you’re wrestling with constant inner turmoil. Or maybe you are tired of repeating the same old patterns and finding yourself in the same place you once were: frustrated and perplexed as to how you can break out of a cycle that is no longer serving you.
My therapeutic approach incorporates trauma-informed, person-centered, and narrative elements to engage in meaningful dialogue and implementation of evidence supported approaches (BA/ EMDR/CBT/CBT-I).
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I'm a Second-Generation Chinese-Canadian (born and raised in Vancouver), and Registered Clinical Counsellor with my M.A. in Counselling Psychology from UBC. I often work with individuals who are navigating complex emotional challenges where problems vary from being clearly defined (ie. feeling overwhelmed or "stuck"), or unsure of what is exactly "wrong." My approach involves developing a therapeutic relationship where we can work together supported by compassion, non-judgement, and intention. The goal is not to "fix" someone but to support you in developing or adapting strengths to help you progress forward.
My therapeutic approach incorporates trauma-informed, person-centered, and narrative elements to engage in meaningful dialogue and implementation of evidence supported approaches (BA/ EMDR/CBT/CBT-I).
Hi there!
I'm a Second-Generation Chinese-Canadian (born and raised in Vancouver), and Registered Clinical Counsellor with my M.A. in Counselling Psychology from UBC. I often work with individuals who are navigating complex emotional challenges where problems vary from being clearly defined (ie. feeling overwhelmed or "stuck"), or unsure of what is exactly "wrong." My approach involves developing a therapeutic relationship where we can work together supported by compassion, non-judgement, and intention. The goal is not to "fix" someone but to support you in developing or adapting strengths to help you progress forward.
I am a certified clinical counsellor with over a decade of experience with all ages of individuals, couples and families. My practice encourages a holistic approach where I help clients to heal by providing tools for awareness and recognizing their entire human and life experience in an integrative approach to healing the mind. The therapeutic modalities used in session will depend on the client’s needs. However, I have a specialized focus on complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression, abuse, stress, emotional overwhelm and work/life balance.The work I do is person centred and compassion focused to facilitate your healing journey.
I am a certified clinical counsellor with over a decade of experience with all ages of individuals, couples and families. My practice encourages a holistic approach where I help clients to heal by providing tools for awareness and recognizing their entire human and life experience in an integrative approach to healing the mind. The therapeutic modalities used in session will depend on the client’s needs. However, I have a specialized focus on complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression, abuse, stress, emotional overwhelm and work/life balance.The work I do is person centred and compassion focused to facilitate your healing journey.
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EMDR Counsellors
Who is EMDR for?
EMDR was initially developed as a treatment for individuals with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), for whom memories of a deeply distressing experience can be inadvertently triggered by random everyday events. The procedure has since been applied in the treatment of many other conditions. For example, it is used by some therapists to treat anxiety disorders including panic and phobias, depression, dissociative disorders, eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, and some personality disorders. It is suitable for adolescents and adults.
Why do people need EMDR?
People need EMDR as a way to manage distressing memories that in some way hamper the ability to function in the present. The procedure is believed to target the way memories are stored in the brain. Evidence indicates that past disturbing experiences cause ongoing distress because they were not adequately processed, and when such memories are triggered in the present, they are accompanied by all the emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations as the initial experience.
What problems does EMDR treat?
First and foremost, EMDR is intended as a treatment for PTSD, to defuse distressing memories that intrude on and impair everyday functioning. It is also often used to help those who are subject to panic attacks, phobias, and other forms of anxiety. In addition, EMDR has been used to treat individuals with depression, eating disorders, and personality disorders.
What happens in EMDR therapy?
First the therapist takes an individual’s history, and then the therapist and client decide which distressing experience(s) will be the target(s) of the exercise, delivered via a side-to-side visual stimulus requiring lateral eye movements. The client will be asked to activate thoughts, feelings, and any body sensations related to the troubling experience. The eye movements are said to reduce the emotional charge of the memory, so that the experience can then be safely discussed with the therapist and digested, minimising its ability to trigger anxiety.