Somatic Therapists in Vancouver, BC

Hi there! My name is Abby and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Reaching out for support is sometimes half the battle, and you are almost there. Whether you’re struggling with stress or anxiety, exploring queer experiences, or have mental health concerns, my goal is to offer you a soft place to find your ground. We will combine my knowledge and training with your intuition to navigate your needs. Together, we can build a trusting relationship where you feel safe to unravel difficult thoughts and feelings, move through painful experiences, and explore your identity and relationships.

Shivani Wells-Shaw Clinical Counselling is a team of highly skilled and compassionate therapists offering online and in-person appointments in Downtown Vancouver. We specialize in treating trauma-related symptoms and mood disorders with a focus on EMDR therapy. If you're experiencing anxiety, panic, depression, dissociation, chronic pain, flashbacks, or other trauma-related symptoms, we're here to help! We believe symptoms are your brain and body's attempt to survive, and cope. Together we will discover the source of your issues and treat your symptoms at their roots. We can't change the past, but together we can repair it!

I am a compassionate, solution focused counsellor with over 25 years experience working in the field of mental health. My ultimate goal is to help my clients think better, feel better and connect better. My expertise is in the areas of mental health challenges, stress management, trauma and eating disorders.

Decipher Counselling Art Therapy Studio offers creative, justice-oriented therapy for people dealing with experiences of invalidation, including any and all underrepresented communities. This may include processing trauma, navigating identities, life transitions, and power differences. We aim to create a space where people of all intersectionalities can feel like they belong. To feel like they can be themselves in their most unique ways. Where their stories will be heard and held. We work to decolonize therapy in our therapy practice and personally around our identities.

We all have things we’ve been told about ourselves that we internalize and start telling ourselves. Do you struggle with a story or belief about yourself that holds you back? Does this cause you some stress, loneliness, conflict in your relationships, or even lead you into misusing alcohol or substances? Now, more than ever, a lot of us are feeling disconnected from others and under the spell of negative stories about ourselves. In my practice, my team and I believe that these stories can be rewritten, that we are each the author of our own lives.

I support those who are seeking not only to better understand their underlying patterns but also to actively improve their quality of life with a safe, supportive and collaborative counselling relationship. Issues that I help with include healing from traumatic loss, recovering from the effects of childhood trauma, relationship abuse, and other difficult life events. I also work extensively with issues around emotional regulation, boundary setting, anxiety, depression and substance misuse. Even when your struggles originate from severe adversity and trauma, you can grow, not only despite adversity, but because of it.

I guide people to return to their fierce intelligence for healing, for thriving. You can free your heart no matter what atrocity you’ve endured. Whether it’s trauma that’s racialized, class-based, familial, intergenerational, transphobic, religious, and ableist, there is medicine within you that wants to heal you. Your spirit (wholeness) is designed to reclaim your life force. Your life force is exactly the gift our world needs to come back into balance. I care about you coming into your rightful power so that you can live in belonging and grow loving connections.

As you go along in life, do you find yourself switching between different moods and hijacked by so many contradictory feelings and impulses that feel out of your control or conscious awareness? You may wish to live life more fully and meaningfully while you find yourself inhibited or limited with struggles between your wish for involvement in ordinary life and fear of leaving the house, mistrust of relationships, or hopelessness about future. In dealing with these personal challenges, you may feel flooded and severely anxious or in trying to disconnect or deny these responses, may feel chronically depressed and alienated from self.

Hi there! My name is Ana, I'm a Registered Counsellor, and my life's purpose is to help people heal and grow. Do you struggle with anxiety, grief, a challenging relationship, low self-worth, that affects your day-to-day life and relationships? Do you feel overwhelmed, frustrated, angry or flooded with emotions, by just getting through the day, and feeling stuck on autopilot? Do you hope that your life, relationships with others and yourself could be better? Now more than ever, people are feeling anxious and uncertain about not knowing who they are, overcoming a breakup, working through a loss, or finding their place in life.

As a Registered Clinical Counsellor since 2006, I have been providing supportive psychotherapy to a diverse group of individuals in variety of settings: post secondary, residential addiction treatment, public health care in community and hospital, as well as private practice. I have training and interest in several therapeutic modalities such as mindfulness-based and somatic approaches, cognitive and dialectical behavioral therapies, and emotion-focused therapies. My specialty is helping to heal the effects of traumatic events, developmental trauma, and attachment wounds. I bring competence, warmth, and lightness to the role.

I use Internal Family Systems (parts work) and Somatic Therapies to support individuals, couples and multi-partner relationships to connect to themselves and others with curiosity, compassion and clarity. Many of my clients are queer, non-monogamous or kinky and I aim to provide an inclusive space for anyone who wants to deepen their relationship with self, others and spirit. Spiritually, I hold an non-dual and animate worldview which supports me to approach therapy from a holistic perspective, recognizing the interconnectedness and aliveness of body-mind, spirit and environment.

Xia is a registered clinical counsellor and professional art therapist with Asian roots. She currently works for a family agency and worked as a university counsellor and instructor in Beijing for seven years before moving to Canada. She would like to connect with clients and attune to their needs using an integrative approach structured by relational-cultural therapy, trauma-informed care, Jungian therapy, existential and experiential work, somatic and spiritual approach, and strengths-based and systemic lenses.

I bring a critical analysis & social justice-orientation. I hope for your openness to somatic/body-based invitations & practice. You love stories, storytelling, narratives and imaginative practice. You want support with substance use recovery, psychedelic-assisted therapy, navigating chronic health & surgeries, grief & loss, IPV/GBV, psychotic disorders, etc. You are keen on working with someone knowledgeable in trauma & with lived experience. Maybe you are excited about a queer practitioner :)

Change can be difficult and scary, but so important for living the life you want. I believe in working respectfully and compassionately with you, to achieve your goals. I am trained in several therapeutic approaches including: EMDR, Somatic Therapy, Mindfulness, CBT, Motivational Interviewing and Brief-Solution Focused Therapy. I work with individuals struggling with mood disorders (anxiety, depression), trauma, PTSD, grief and loss. I also work on self-esteem building, family and relationship concerns, and professional development and enhancement. Contact me if you are ready to take your first step towards your best life.

I specialize in sexual struggles and am training to be a sex therapist. I 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.

It's hard to live your best life when struggling with anxious and ruminating thoughts. Or feeling disconnected from your partner. Or reliving old trauma that's been following you around. Are you struggling with ADHD, PTSD, depression, or an unwanted habit? Feeling lost and stressed in your career, or overwhelmed with responsibilities? Needing support as you navigate LGBTQ+ challenges? You are looking for therapy that works, right?

Are you troubled by long-standing issues that don’t seem to go away? Or stuck by an unexpected emotional challenge? I see your courage as you take a step and seek support to untangle issues holding you back from your potential, healing, and personal growth. I provide a warm, gentle, affirming and compassionate space that honours your uniqueness while recognizing the role of systemic factors in your lived experience. I approach counselling from a holistic, trauma-informed, somatic, and sex-positive lens. Together, we can tap into your inner strengths toward greater awareness, autonomy, and empowerment.

Are you struggling with your mental health? Are issues related to depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, or addictive behavior causing you to feel stuck in patterns of thinking and doing that may no longer be serving you? Are you in search of a respectful, affirming, and empathic space for you to safely explore your emotions, beliefs, experiences, relationships, and the issues that are presenting challenges in your life?

Whether you're struggling with anxiety or depression, navigating change, experiencing grief and loss, or coping with the general stress of life, I offer a warm and non-judgmental space to work through your challenges and identify the strengths that will carry you through. This is a space where you are free to be yourself – flaws and all. I believe you are the expert in your experience and I'm here to offer insights, share tools, and gently challenge you as you heal and grow.