Therapists in British Columbia

My name is Jason Knapp and I am a seasoned therapist, with 10 years of post-graduate experience and more than twenty years of clinical practice supporting people with mental health issues and disabilities. Whether it relates to complex suffering since childhood, a distressing event in your past or a difficult problem with which you currently struggle; our work together will focus on a recovery plan for positive change, tailored to fit your needs and goals.

I have been in private counselling practice for 15 years, and in wellness, personal development and the media for 25 years. My practice draws self-referring, high-functioning adults/couples with addiction, phobia, anxiety, depression and attachment disorders affecting their lives beyond their historical, current or perceived ability of self-control. In couples, I usually begin individually to create safety and self-awareness, then back together towards clear self-advocacy, expression and to build trustful communication. EMDR in the couple context can clear a lot of old trauma and wounded pattern-associations that mire us in destructive relational dynamics.

I specialize in working with people struggling with ADHD, anxiety, perfectionism, and people-pleasing. I have a deep understanding of how anxiety affects all stages of relationships (including finding a partner in the first place) and I support my clients to move from feeling lonely and disconnected to confident and secure. In addition to my individual work, I offer couples' counselling using the Gottman method, which goes beyond just communication skills and gets to the root of the problem. I prioritize making sure clients leave feeling seen and heard by their partner, equipped with new skills to get out of a stuck place.

Situated in the White Rock / South Surrey area, I am pleased to deliver relevant and effective therapeutic coaching for those who are looking for increased clarity, honest introspection, and rigorous developmental growth. This is a unique, holistic counselling approach that takes into account the whole person while helping to facilitate new pathways of insight and focus. I do this work in a number of ways. Some of these are drawn from current perspectives in grounded research in the behavioral sciences, while others are borrowed from timeless principles rooted in ancient healing perspectives.

If you are feeling overwhelmed in your life or relationship, I am here to inspire hope and to help empower you to navigate life with calm confidence. It is normal to need support; sometimes help is required to understand why you are feeling stuck so that a perspective shift can take place, ultimately leading to a more meaningful life experience. Through a deeper understanding of self, the architecture of change can be built, new skills can be learned, enabling the potential for personal and relational transformation.

I have experience working with children, teens and young adults who are dealing with social and emotional issues, while striving to strengthen their internal locus of control. Outside of counselling, I work with individuals in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside who are living with addiction and housing insecurity. Through this work, I have developed an appreciation that mental health challenges can be exacerbated by both internal and external factors, such as past trauma and poverty.

Mickey Stein Ph.D. is a registered clinical psychologist in Vancouver, B.C. My mission in private practice is to provide individual and group psychotherapy, as well as psychological assessments aimed at treating children, adolescents, and adults. It is my sincere hope that whether you are seeking help for yourself or your child/teenager, you would reach out.

I am a trauma-informed psychotherapist with over 10 years of experience working with diverse clients in individual and couple settings. I practice from a humanistic, strengths-based, person-centered model as well as a psychodynamic perspective. My approach is holistic, anti-oppressive, authentic, nurturing, and eclectic. With a multicultural perspective, I honor the importance of the therapeutic alliance in creating change in clients' lives, and I invite you to (re)discover your strengths, hopes, and dreams, and your true identity/self. I offer a safe and supportive space for you to explore your thoughts, behaviors, and feelings.

I am a Registered Psychotherapist and Registered Counselling Supervisor. My practice is guided by extensive experience working with people coming from various socioeconomic backgrounds as well as many years of serving the most vulnerable communities in Vancouver’s DTES. While my approach is integrative of modern theories and techniques, it heavily relies on Psychodynamic theories and practice. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is a highly individualized treatment whose goal is not only to alleviate the most obvious symptom. It relies on the fact that our personalities are uniquely shaped by several developmental stages.

Everyone's story is unique and no therapy session follows a predictable path. Yet the following steps provide a general outline of how your therapy sessions with me may progress. We investigate your particular problem thoroughly, its destructive dramas and dark messages, until we see exactly how it turns up in your day. Just as important, we clarify your core values, hopes, and skills from which emerges a clear direction for your life.

Conflicts. Heartache. Angst. Chronic worry. Fear. Prolonged Sadness. Anger. You probably tried to deal with your struggles on your own, but you are not meant to suffer alone. Most of us reach out for help to family and friends. But sometimes you need more. You need someone who knows how to help you through your difficulties. You need someone who will hear, understand and help you find your way out of darkness. You need someone who can help you develop the courage to say no to toxic choices and yes to life-affirming decisions.

Now Accepting New Clients - I help clients dealing with issues like anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, substance misuse, and existential concerns.

Trauma therapy. Although you can't heal past trauma on your own, I believe I can help you. I have more than ten years experience dealing with trauma, PTSD, sexual abuse, and sexual assault. I'm a former hospital chaplain for the Emergency, Intensive Care, and Burn Units, and I've written about trauma (including an invited paper) for major psychology journals. Academic articles have cited me almost 4,000 times.

A general pattern I find with most people who choose to work with me is feeling stuck. Whether that's in career or life choices, a habit they you are trying to kick, or a feeling that you have more potential you want to actualize. Areas I am particularly drawn to working with include religious trauma, sexual trauma, addiction, and career and entrepreneurship. I find that people gravitate to my hypnosis modality (Hypnosis Assisted Healing) when they feel like they want something more than talk therapy, or that their situation requires a different approach. Trust your intuition!

Now offering trauma focused psychotherapy and EMDR in Petawawa. I provide counselling and therapy services to adolescents, adults, and seniors. As a person who has been deaf since early childhood, I have learned to speak and hear through the benefits of technology, including the cochlear implant. I am uniquely qualified to work with clients who identify as a person with a disability. As a person with a disability, I identify with life challenges and role model resilience, compassion, perseverance and hope. I am inclusive of all cultures, faiths, gender identities and sexual orientations.

I offer Jungian / Psychodynamic Psychotherapy to people with a wide range of backgrounds, mental health issues and concerns. Whether you are looking for support through a difficult time or to embark on a deeper healing journey, my aim is to help you more fully explore, meet, feel, and process the root causes of the issues that get in your way - those blocks, patterns and wounds that keep you from moving towards realizing who you truly are and are longing to become. We work through this together within the context of a genuine, creative and secure therapeutic relationship that develops as we meet for the purposes of your healing.

I have been practicing as a Clinical and Forensic Psychologist in B.C. for 40 years. I was previously the Senior Psychologist at the Vancouver Health Dept. and the Director of Psychology at VGH (Shaughnessy). I was a consultant to the Family Justice Counselling Service (BC Attorney General) for 10 years and the National Parole Board of Canada. My clients these days see me primarily for parenting and post-separation problems. This can take the form of parenting assessments for the Court, consulting, and Parent Coordination. I am registered to practice in BC. Equally importantly I am a husband, father and grandfather.