Therapists in V5L
I specialize in helping individuals who feel stuck in cycles of chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, depression, or major life transitions—especially when traditional approaches haven’t fully helped. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and mindfulness, I emphasize the interplay of mind and body as a gateway to lasting change. Together, we’ll uncover how your experiences shape your present reality, recognize the strengths within you, and develop practical strategies that foster resilience and empower you with skills that continue to serve you well beyond our time together.
I specialize in helping individuals who feel stuck in cycles of chronic pain, trauma, anxiety, depression, or major life transitions—especially when traditional approaches haven’t fully helped. Drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and mindfulness, I emphasize the interplay of mind and body as a gateway to lasting change. Together, we’ll uncover how your experiences shape your present reality, recognize the strengths within you, and develop practical strategies that foster resilience and empower you with skills that continue to serve you well beyond our time together.
One of the main goals of counselling is to activate your own ability for compassion, healing, motivation, and hope. There is no shame or blame in having a tough time or not being sure what you would like to happen in this chapter of your life. Let's honour this chapter of your journey with support, exploration, teamwork, humour, and hope.
One of the main goals of counselling is to activate your own ability for compassion, healing, motivation, and hope. There is no shame or blame in having a tough time or not being sure what you would like to happen in this chapter of your life. Let's honour this chapter of your journey with support, exploration, teamwork, humour, and hope.
Accepting Virtual Clients for counselling and clinical supervision- I work with adults and young people who are struggling with transitions, coping, relationships, grief, mental health or other concerns they'd like to talk over with someone they can feel supported by and who can help them build their toolbox for navigating their concerns. I also provide clinical supervision with practicum students and counsellors building their counselling practice. I love working with folks on their case conceptualization, treatment planning, and confidence in the tools and skills they can offer clients.
Accepting Virtual Clients for counselling and clinical supervision- I work with adults and young people who are struggling with transitions, coping, relationships, grief, mental health or other concerns they'd like to talk over with someone they can feel supported by and who can help them build their toolbox for navigating their concerns. I also provide clinical supervision with practicum students and counsellors building their counselling practice. I love working with folks on their case conceptualization, treatment planning, and confidence in the tools and skills they can offer clients.
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.
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.
Evergreen Counselling - Zoey Green
Counsellor, MC, RCC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Vancouver, BC V5L
Are you struggling with overwhelm, indecision, pain, or powerlessness? Are there parts of you that have been silenced, shamed, or oppressed that need a space to be heard? I work with adults of all ages to help make sense of their experiences, process past trauma, feel awake to the current moment, and create a path toward renewal and growth. I believe that we all deserve to develop our sense of self and our sense of meaning in a compassionate and non-judgmental space. Together, we can give voice to the many parts of your internal and relational world and start to build towards the changes you want to see in your life.
Are you struggling with overwhelm, indecision, pain, or powerlessness? Are there parts of you that have been silenced, shamed, or oppressed that need a space to be heard? I work with adults of all ages to help make sense of their experiences, process past trauma, feel awake to the current moment, and create a path toward renewal and growth. I believe that we all deserve to develop our sense of self and our sense of meaning in a compassionate and non-judgmental space. Together, we can give voice to the many parts of your internal and relational world and start to build towards the changes you want to see in your life.
Relationships can be a source of your greatest joys and your biggest challenges. And struggles within your relationships, whether it’s with your partner, a family member or in the workplace, can impact your enjoyment of your daily life. With over 30 years of experience, I have worked with couples and individuals in transforming their relationships from a source of pain and conflict to one of strength and growth. I bring my lived experience as a married lesbian and mother to a young adult to my practice. With Heartswell Counselling, I offer you a safe, inclusive space to explore your feelings and enhance your heart’s well-being.
Relationships can be a source of your greatest joys and your biggest challenges. And struggles within your relationships, whether it’s with your partner, a family member or in the workplace, can impact your enjoyment of your daily life. With over 30 years of experience, I have worked with couples and individuals in transforming their relationships from a source of pain and conflict to one of strength and growth. I bring my lived experience as a married lesbian and mother to a young adult to my practice. With Heartswell Counselling, I offer you a safe, inclusive space to explore your feelings and enhance your heart’s well-being.
You may feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about where to go next in your life. You’ve been navigating challenges with relationships, emotional well-being, or self-confidence. Or maybe you want to improve your self-awareness and better understand the patterns that influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. You may be facing life transitions, seeking deeper connections, or simply looking for greater clarity and direction. Ultimately, you want to feel understood, supported, and empowered to create meaningful change and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose and balance.
You may feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about where to go next in your life. You’ve been navigating challenges with relationships, emotional well-being, or self-confidence. Or maybe you want to improve your self-awareness and better understand the patterns that influence your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. You may be facing life transitions, seeking deeper connections, or simply looking for greater clarity and direction. Ultimately, you want to feel understood, supported, and empowered to create meaningful change and move forward with a renewed sense of purpose and balance.
Clients often come to me when they decide that survival is no longer enough. Whether it's past trauma, depression, anxiety, disconnection from self, lack of purpose, or lack of hope (etc). As humans, we all carry rocks in our proverbial backpacks. I am awestruck by the human capacity to survive and endure. But sometimes the weight that holds us down becomes so familiar that it is almost comforting. If you are reading this, you have found the courage to ask the question, "What if I allow myself to believe that I deserve better?" I love nothing more than helping clients explore what that might look like, and how to get there.
Clients often come to me when they decide that survival is no longer enough. Whether it's past trauma, depression, anxiety, disconnection from self, lack of purpose, or lack of hope (etc). As humans, we all carry rocks in our proverbial backpacks. I am awestruck by the human capacity to survive and endure. But sometimes the weight that holds us down becomes so familiar that it is almost comforting. If you are reading this, you have found the courage to ask the question, "What if I allow myself to believe that I deserve better?" I love nothing more than helping clients explore what that might look like, and how to get there.
Hannah’s lived experience with sexuality and gender exploration, grief and loss, and fat joy informs their therapeutic specialities. They wish to be a soft place to land for clients from marginalized identities who may not have had a safe enough place to explore these concerns. Hannah supports clients through identity exploration, sex, pleasure, desire concerns, and kink. They specialize in supporting clients who are in polyamorous or non-traditional relationship structures, survivors of sexual violence and they are sex worker affirming.
Hannah’s lived experience with sexuality and gender exploration, grief and loss, and fat joy informs their therapeutic specialities. They wish to be a soft place to land for clients from marginalized identities who may not have had a safe enough place to explore these concerns. Hannah supports clients through identity exploration, sex, pleasure, desire concerns, and kink. They specialize in supporting clients who are in polyamorous or non-traditional relationship structures, survivors of sexual violence and they are sex worker affirming.
I believe all people have the capacity to heal, grow, and build a life they are proud of. I am happy to assist you in creating a life you are proud of and using therapy as a space to process what is working and what is not and areas where you may feel stuck. I am especially experienced with anxiety and burnout, childhood trauma, chronic pain, grief, and life transitions.
I believe all people have the capacity to heal, grow, and build a life they are proud of. I am happy to assist you in creating a life you are proud of and using therapy as a space to process what is working and what is not and areas where you may feel stuck. I am especially experienced with anxiety and burnout, childhood trauma, chronic pain, grief, and life transitions.
Did you lose someone you love? I was a counsellor with 25 years experience as a therapist and clinical supervisor when I traumatically lost my father and my son within months of each other. I felt that the pain of my own grief would destroy me. All the information on grief that I had studied while obtaining my masters had to be re-learned. An important part of my journey in healing involved having my pain and isolation witnessed by a counsellor who had survived their own grief. I eventually came to adjust to my new reality. I eventually learned how to honour and maintain connection with my son and dad with more love than pain.
Did you lose someone you love? I was a counsellor with 25 years experience as a therapist and clinical supervisor when I traumatically lost my father and my son within months of each other. I felt that the pain of my own grief would destroy me. All the information on grief that I had studied while obtaining my masters had to be re-learned. An important part of my journey in healing involved having my pain and isolation witnessed by a counsellor who had survived their own grief. I eventually came to adjust to my new reality. I eventually learned how to honour and maintain connection with my son and dad with more love than pain.
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Hi there - and thank you for the visit. Asking for help and finding a counsellor who is the right fit can be quite the process. Whether you are seeking support because of some sudden shift in circumstance or a longstanding issue that is getting harder and harder to carry, I believe therapy is a unique space that can help people heal and grow and can help carry some of that weight.
Hi there - and thank you for the visit. Asking for help and finding a counsellor who is the right fit can be quite the process. Whether you are seeking support because of some sudden shift in circumstance or a longstanding issue that is getting harder and harder to carry, I believe therapy is a unique space that can help people heal and grow and can help carry some of that weight.
I believe counselling can be a space where we can get to know our authentic selves, where many parts of ourselves can be explored and we can start to resist the boxes that may be confining us. I view counselling as a collaborative process and recognize each person’s natural ability to gravitate toward change at their own pace. The genuine connection of a counselling relationship in a safe enough and inclusive environment is often at the root of healing.
I believe counselling can be a space where we can get to know our authentic selves, where many parts of ourselves can be explored and we can start to resist the boxes that may be confining us. I view counselling as a collaborative process and recognize each person’s natural ability to gravitate toward change at their own pace. The genuine connection of a counselling relationship in a safe enough and inclusive environment is often at the root of healing.
As your counselor, I create a calm and compassionate space for you to tell your story. My clients often come in stating that they feel stuck no matter how hard they try to change. Often times they feel tired of the same setbacks, don't know how to move forward or that their past trauma continually effects their present day functioning. Traumatic events push nervous systems outside the ability to regulate itself and for some the system gets stuck in the 'on' position causing anxiety, anger, panic or more. There's an overwhelming sense of 'what is wrong with me' with a need to feel more in-control and at peace again.
As your counselor, I create a calm and compassionate space for you to tell your story. My clients often come in stating that they feel stuck no matter how hard they try to change. Often times they feel tired of the same setbacks, don't know how to move forward or that their past trauma continually effects their present day functioning. Traumatic events push nervous systems outside the ability to regulate itself and for some the system gets stuck in the 'on' position causing anxiety, anger, panic or more. There's an overwhelming sense of 'what is wrong with me' with a need to feel more in-control and at peace again.
Zoe Dagneault
Pre-Licensed Professional, Zoe Dagneault
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Vancouver, BC V5L
Recently, I have been exploring the concept of Legacy and what that looks like over a lifetime, a moment, or even the Legacy we want to leave from yesterday. The emotional legacies we may have been given do not need to be endured for a lifetime. By turning our focus inward and repairing the relationship with ourselves, we begin to rebuild sustainable, fulfilling, authentic connections, allowing healing and transformation with our partners, friends, extended family and community. Repairing our relationship with ourselves promotes intergenerational mental health with our partners, children, siblings and parents.
Recently, I have been exploring the concept of Legacy and what that looks like over a lifetime, a moment, or even the Legacy we want to leave from yesterday. The emotional legacies we may have been given do not need to be endured for a lifetime. By turning our focus inward and repairing the relationship with ourselves, we begin to rebuild sustainable, fulfilling, authentic connections, allowing healing and transformation with our partners, friends, extended family and community. Repairing our relationship with ourselves promotes intergenerational mental health with our partners, children, siblings and parents.
Lucy Maria Fernandes
Pre-Licensed Professional, CYC-P
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Vancouver, BC V5L
I am accepting new clients and covered by all insurances. I am lived experience through the many facets that one experiences in a life journey. The world is a beautiful but complicated place that will impact your mind, body & spirit. We are powerful beings that are able to heal, make changes and still get life enjoyments through healing. I have a direct understanding in childhood traumas, sexual assaults, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, ADHD, ODD, parental guidance, and women’s issues.
I am accepting new clients and covered by all insurances. I am lived experience through the many facets that one experiences in a life journey. The world is a beautiful but complicated place that will impact your mind, body & spirit. We are powerful beings that are able to heal, make changes and still get life enjoyments through healing. I have a direct understanding in childhood traumas, sexual assaults, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, ADHD, ODD, parental guidance, and women’s issues.
Therapy can be an opportunity to bring awareness to your unconscious patterns, to discover where you have choice and to connect to your authentic self. Therapy is one way you turn towards yourself, this can be challenging when we’ve spent a life time turning away. We need time, space, and guidance to transform ourselves and forge a new path.
Therapy can be an opportunity to bring awareness to your unconscious patterns, to discover where you have choice and to connect to your authentic self. Therapy is one way you turn towards yourself, this can be challenging when we’ve spent a life time turning away. We need time, space, and guidance to transform ourselves and forge a new path.
Imagine sitting in a cozy room, the faint scent of freshly brewed tea lingering in the air as you and your partner find yourselves facing challenges that seem insurmountable. The weight of grief or the strain of unspoken emotions hangs heavy between you. It's a scenario familiar to many, where the complexities of relationships, the trials of parenthood, or the echoes of past traumas cast shadows over the present. In this moment, what you yearn for is a path forward. You dream of rediscovering the joy and understanding that once defined your relationship, of building a future where communication flows freely and wounds begin to mend.
Imagine sitting in a cozy room, the faint scent of freshly brewed tea lingering in the air as you and your partner find yourselves facing challenges that seem insurmountable. The weight of grief or the strain of unspoken emotions hangs heavy between you. It's a scenario familiar to many, where the complexities of relationships, the trials of parenthood, or the echoes of past traumas cast shadows over the present. In this moment, what you yearn for is a path forward. You dream of rediscovering the joy and understanding that once defined your relationship, of building a future where communication flows freely and wounds begin to mend.
Overwhelm, confusion, conflict, anxiety, despair and dread - if this is your reality right now, you're not alone. We're all longing for a sense of connection, possibility, and purpose in the face of the tsunami of injustice, trauma and loss we've all been living through for so long. Stress levels higher than the price of a Vancouver condo, rights and freedoms under attack from all sides and catastrophe looming around every corner - how do we face the mess we're in and still show up as the partners, caregivers, creatives, healers and changemakers we long to be, in a world that tells us that we are never enough.
Overwhelm, confusion, conflict, anxiety, despair and dread - if this is your reality right now, you're not alone. We're all longing for a sense of connection, possibility, and purpose in the face of the tsunami of injustice, trauma and loss we've all been living through for so long. Stress levels higher than the price of a Vancouver condo, rights and freedoms under attack from all sides and catastrophe looming around every corner - how do we face the mess we're in and still show up as the partners, caregivers, creatives, healers and changemakers we long to be, in a world that tells us that we are never enough.
As humans, we have all needed other people to share life’s journey with me in all its hope and hurt, awe and agony, wonder and wisdom. If you are in a space of curiosity, feeling like you would benefit from support to explore and deepen your personal and/or professional challenges, change deeply held patterns that aren't working for you, or work through frustrations, anxieties, fears, or grief, I am here to walk alongside you in that journey. I value a practical approach to addressing concerns, and will co-create strategies with you, drawing from your personal wisdom and experience combined with researched best practices.
As humans, we have all needed other people to share life’s journey with me in all its hope and hurt, awe and agony, wonder and wisdom. If you are in a space of curiosity, feeling like you would benefit from support to explore and deepen your personal and/or professional challenges, change deeply held patterns that aren't working for you, or work through frustrations, anxieties, fears, or grief, I am here to walk alongside you in that journey. I value a practical approach to addressing concerns, and will co-create strategies with you, drawing from your personal wisdom and experience combined with researched best practices.
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Number of Counsellors in V5L
100+
Average cost per session
$150
Counsellors in V5L who prioritize treating:
| 92% | Anxiety |
| 84% | Depression |
| 81% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 78% | Relationship Issues |
| 77% | Self Esteem |
| 75% | Stress |
| 72% | Grief |
Average years in practice
7 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 57% | SunLife |
| 48% | Pacific Blue Cross |
| 43% | Manulife |
How Counsellors in V5L see their clients
| 70% | In Person and Online | |
| 30% | Online Only |
Gender breakdown
| 78% | Female | |
| 16% | Male | |
| 6% | Non-Binary |