Therapists in V1M

I work from a strength-based approach based in neuroscience and best practice, helping people impacted by ADHD to reach life goals, while reducing stress and tension. I have found clients with ADHD can have some big gifts beyond executive function challenges including: pathfinder, resilient, creative and the capacity to feel deeply. Coaching can help to learn new skills, therapy can help to overcome limiting beliefs. I offer both. ADHD brains are different and require a different "owners manual". With support and guidance the gifts and the gems of neurodivergent humans can be cultivated for their (and the world's) benefit.

Facing life's challenges can be difficult. It is made easier when accompanied by a therapist who is accepting, supportive and challenges us to face our vulnerabilities with compassion and courage, while making meaningful changes in our lives and relationships. I work with various issues including anxiety, depression, grief, stress, abuse, or trauma. I offer a warm, non-judgmental, relational approach in which you can find strength, confidence, and enduring change.

People often seek counselling when they find themselves stuck in vicious cycles related to their relationships, their behaviours, or their self-talk. Much of my work involves helping people to break free from these cycles, and move towards a more fulfilling and peaceful life. I specialize in working with anxiety/panic, relationships, and disordered eating/body-image. I also have a special interest in helping first responders.

My orientation to treatment is client centred. I believe the relationship between client and therapist is key for seeing change in psychotherapy and work to foster a collaborative alliance with my clients. I strive to help each client build skills, alter outdated and maladaptive thought and behaviour patterns, reduce suffering, practice acceptance and grow mindfully. I work with adults facing a range of psychological and life challenges including anxiety, depression, OCD, Bipolar disorder, psychosis, grief/loss, career changes, life transitions, and relationship issues.

Oftentimes we feel ‘stuck’ as though no movement forward is possible, or that our story is too complex to navigate and find healing from. Through my own experience, and in journeying alongside others, I have come to believe that freedom and life, even in the midst of significant pain and loss is possible. My clinical approach is unique, as I seek to incorporate the spiritual journey of the client, as understood through a Christian worldview, into the therapeutic process. I work using a parallel process of deepening your understanding of Self, and of God as you begin to reflect on your story.

As a therapist, I offer you a professional relationship that is deeply accepting and non-judgemental, but also objective and truthful. The issues that bring you to therapy likely started in the context of relationship, and so need to be healed in relationship. My expertise is in creating a specific type of relationship with you, that catalyzes healing and change. In this process you will discover your capacity to trust again, to have connected, satisfying relationships, to stabilize emotionally, and to care for yourself again.

Hello and welcome. :) Therapy can provide you with new perspectives on life issues, new possibilities, opportunities for growth and change, and release from suffering. Whether life has thrown an unexpected challenge your way, you are struggling in relationship, or with individual concerns, counselling can be of great assistance. With 30 + years of experience and training working with adults, adolescents, first responders and critical incident stress debriefing I have a myriad of tools, techniques, and therapeutic specialties to utilize in ensuring your choice to enter therapy with me will be one of the best decisions of your life.

Welcome! I am glad you found yourself here. I acknowledge that counselling is a courageous step. It is courageous to look within yourself and realize that there are some things not working for you. Many times we have experienced non-death loss, suffering, and pain hoping that it would have disappeared with time but the intense pain, hurt, and anger continues to remain.

Healing is rarely a steady slope and predictable process, yet I hold hope that everyone has the resources to work towards experiencing freedom even in deep pits of pain. I've witnessed that the relationships we have with ourselves, others and God can be powerfully impactful. In my experience relationships with others are often the site of our deepest hurt. However, it's also safe relationships where you can show up without shame, that create space where we experience healing. I hope to help others discover their strengths and find beauty in what feels like life’s ashes. So what happens when you walk into my office?

I have a very warm and accepting approach and understand that life can be complicated and a good conversation can make a significant difference. I have experience working with a range of concerns, including couples/marital difficulties, depression, anxiety, traumatic experiences, family of origin concerns, life transitions and spirituality. Also, I'm thankful that I can draw upon my many years of experience helping others as a former pastor and director of a successful education-based young-adult program. I provide therapy to adults, young adults, and couples.I am happily married and have four school-aged children.

Are you feeling stuck? Having a difficult time navigating through depression, anxiety, or personal relationships? Would you like to improve your communication skills with your partner, parents, or children? Taking the time to care for yourself and for your relationships is an important part of wellness. Counselling can be a powerful way to help you get "unstuck". Feel free to call for a free phone consultation to see if counselling might be right for you.

Living in and relating to our bodies in a healthy, comfortable way can be especially difficult in this day and age, given the countless messages and pressures we experience. How we feel living in our body may effect a wide range of areas in our life, including mood, self-esteem, behaviours, and relationships with others. My approach to counselling focuses on helping my clients understand and improve the way they relate to their emotions, to their thoughts, to their body, to their self, and to others.

Relationship Experts Vancouver (REV) is a group practice integrating trauma-informed experiential and relationship-focused approaches to meet you where you're at in life. Whether you would like to work on your relationship(s) or yourself, we'll focus on giving you the experience of change vs only talk, and connection over conflict. It's never too late to seek help to overcome stuckness and live a life aligned with your values. REV is a safe space for the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC community. The founder, Richard, is also a Clinical Supervisor and Faculty in Counselling Psychology available to supervise, speak, and consult to organizations.

At Treehouse Trauma Centre, we help children, teens and adults overcome the hardships—trauma, abuse, anxiety or stress—that keep them from living fully. Our person-centred, humanistic approach helps adults and children break out of unhealthy relationship patterns that undermine their inner strength and equips them to move forward with security, certainty and joy

I believe we are stronger together. My counselling practice is committed to helping you heal from past experiences and develop the mental resiliency to handle future events. I have over a decade of 1 on 1 experience working in the criminal justice system and have a special interest in occupational stress injuries affecting first responders and front-line workers.

Imagine finding Hope & Passion in your Life... If you feel stuck or frustrated, in emotional pain or a struggling relationship, counselling can help. With respect and patience we will discover how you can meet your deep longings and be free to be your truest self. You deserve to feel good about you. I work with gay, lesbian, transgender, queer, and straight youth and adults. I want you to have the inner freedom to be who you were meant to be. I want you to feel better about yourself, your relationships, and your life.

Life can have many challenges especially after living through a pandemic. Sometimes you can navigate through these difficult things on your own while some issues are not so easily resolved. If you’re having a rough time and unsure how to manage, counselling can help! Counselling with me is a chance to feel seen and heard and we become a team of sorts. We collaborate to determine a deeper understanding of your situation and create helpful solutions. I am passionate about helping you manage better and feel happier.

My foundation of therapy is a biopsychosocial-spiritual model, viewing human beings as whole persons of four aspects: physical, psychological, social, and spiritual. Therefore, I am able to see the whole picture on how a brain injury, physical illness, physical trauma, or substance abuse affects human emotions, cognition, behavior, and spirituality, or vice versa. My approach utilizes Cognitive Rehabilitation therapy (CRT), Rogerian therapy, Cognitive Behavioral therapy (CBT), and Narrative therapy in order to help my clients toward problem solving and having a new hope for a new life.

Like many people, I reached a point in my life where I was seeing myself repeatedly make choices that had the same negative responses. I went through divorce, over functioned when it came to others and did not know how to do my own self care. I reached out for support and through therapeutic counselling was able to heal. When looking at my own life challenges, I discovered how my adverse experiences in childhood have influenced my life’s course. Now more than ever we are faced with a lot of different stressors. My passion is to help others navigate through those stressors.