Therapists in Burnaby, BC

Passionate about working with youth, young adults, and families experiencing anxiety and depression, struggling to create stability, self-control and self-awareness. Individuals who experience cultural segregation, bias and stigma learn to overcome silence and implement action and advocacy skills. With the mindset of acceptance, trauma informed lens will target distressing traumatic thoughts, feelings, behaviours and reactions by adjusting ones relationship with those experiences and develop proactive and healthy coping tools; living a life full of clarity and genuineness.

I'm specialized in supporting adolescents, adults, couples, and families with various mental health and relational issues such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, trauma, borderline personality, family relationships, self-development, career-related issues, anger management, cross cultural and generational conflicts, marriage issues, parent/teen conflict, etc.

Welcome to Strive Counselling; a clinic and space to help you find your direction and reach your potential. If you're here reading this blurb, you're probably interested in seeking help for yourself, or a loved on. At Strive, our goal is to build strong relationships with our clients that rests on the foundation of trust. With trust - regardless of your issue of concern - we can help you achieve the wellness that you're hoping for. With this strong foundation, whether we continue with a solution-focused lens, emotional processing perspective, or somatic-based work, we at Strive can help you create meaningful change in your life.

I am a good listener who will encourage you to reflect on what works for you, and which strategies you have tried in the past that have both worked well, or were unsuccessful. I will challenge you in good ways while delivering unconditional acceptance of your preferences and coping strategies. I will encourage you to grow, adapt, and face life’s challenges, losses, and life transitions. I work with many diverse issues relating to mental health and wellness. I also have experience with a vast range of clients from ages 4-76 years and multicultural backgrounds. I am a holistic counsellor and I use a strength based approach to psychotherapy and counselling. I am skilled cognitive therapist, and I enjoy talk therapy using client centred approaches to psychotherapy. I will hold a solution-focused, results based approach with you. There is no problem too big - or, that can’t be better managed. I work with children, teens, and adults. My (very) well behaved and highly trained dog, may be present at sessions. I now have room for new clients. I can also be reached at: Sandralee.macdonald63@gmail.com Looking forward to meeting you. I am ethical, experienced, confidential, and trustworthy.

As a counsellor I offer therapy to the lesbian, gay, bisexual transgendered and straight community. I understand how important it is to to work with someone who understands the culture and lifestyle. I provide counselling to those struggling with past trauma or emotional pain, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, problems coming out, or confusion and pain about sexual or gender identity. I use a variety of of proven counselling and therapy techniques to assist those in the LGBT and straight community to create meaningful and rich lives. As a relationship therapist I help people create healthy and fullfiling relationships.

Do you struggle with knowing how to express yourself to the important people in your life? Put words to your feelings? Understand how to navigate disappointment, loss, failure, or uncertainty? Me too. I've been there. I work with clients who desire clarity and peace in their lives. My clients strive towards healing the legacy of their pasts and moving towards greater connection in their present relationships. In therapy, they want to work with someone they can relate to. If this is something you are looking for, feel welcome to reach out for a free consult with me.

The benefits of my approach lie in using different techniques, tailored to the client's unique personality. Some clients like a directive approach, they want to be guided, to be given an almost 'engineering' model explaining our inner life; some prefer a non-directive, client-centered approach, where they would explore their inner landscape with the therapist as a co-traveler. All clients have relational needs which need to be addressed to, and the therapeutic relationship provides safety, validation, 'repaired' parenting, mutuality, client's self-definition and empowerment. Helping clients practice autonomy is my passion!

Do you need a space where you can sort out the complexities of your relationship with a parent, release the grip of perfectionism, and silence the inner critic that whispers shame? As a seasoned therapist, I specialize in guiding individuals through the intricacies of parent-child relationships, relationships with food, and the body, helping them break free from people-pleasing tendencies and perfectionism, and nurturing a greater sense of self. In my practice, I offer a safe space where you can explore your inner world, discover your strengths, and develop authentic connections—with yourself and others.

I enjoy connecting with people by providing a safe space for them to share their thoughts and feelings. We will work together to overcome the challenges of the past, and take steps together to shape the future with what works best for you. Sometimes it can be a crisis that makes you seek out counselling, in working together, you will discover that the crisis may have been exactly what was needed to help you make some important changes to improve your life. Taking the first step in asking for help takes tremendous courage, the next step typically includes finding the right counsellor for you.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor since 2002 with BCACC. I understand that life is no perfect and challenges are along the way. With the belief that everyone has potential to thrive, my compassion, professional ethics, positive attitudes and over 25 years of counselling experiences have brought great commitment to my counselling career. I have worked with people from all walks of life, immigrants, refugees and international students for the past many years. And I am humble to have the privilege to be by their side during their challenging times.

As an ADHDer, you might go through most days at your maximum: overwhelmed and stressed. Everyone else learned to adult without you. They make it look easy. Feeling ashamed of your mistakes, asking for help feels REALLY hard! Being neurodivergent can make you feel inadequate - but it doesn’t have to. Instead, the difference between ADHDers who thrive and those who struggle is having the right support and the right information. You don't have to white-knuckle it alone. Can you imagine carrying less shame? Do you want to find a way to live with more ease?

Too often I hear stories of people struggling in silence, battling inner thoughts and not knowing what to do with them. Shrouded in fear and shame, they do their best to navigate their daily lives hoping things will get better, but sometimes the struggle continues. Seeing a counsellor can help ease this burden. Whether it's about relationships, careers, family or personal challenges, talking to a trusted counsellor can be the start of offloading these troubling thoughts and allowing space for clarity, growth and direction.

You are the expert of your own lived experiences, beliefs and values. Together, we can build a collaborative therapeutic relationship to support you in deepening your understanding of what has brought you to this point in your life, what your needs are now, and what you want the next chapter of your story to be.

Do you find that you’re often putting other peoples' needs ahead of your own? Do you feel like everyone can have a bad day or make mistakes except you? Or maybe you get scared that if you make a mistake or say “no,” people won’t like or love you and might leave? Do these experiences leave you feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or frustrated? If you answered yes, let’s connect. I specialize in helping people increase their confidence, trust and value themselves more, improve their relationships, and work through blocks to expressing their feelings and needs.

My experience in working in mental health services over the last 17 years - both adults and youth - has allowed me to meet clients with a variety of backgrounds and individual needs. An ideal client is one who is in need of a therapist that is a skilled listener who can help them develop and achieve their goals.

Human beings, on the whole, are extraordinarily complex. I believe that we each carry within us depths that we do not necessarily draw on in our day-to-day movements, be it by choice, or by a certain unawareness – when what is needed to access our full capacities has not yet been discovered. When feeling stuck, it can be important to be reminded of our resilience and our capacity to change, to flow in the midst of flux.

Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you a new or expectant mother navigating postpartum and experiencing low mood or anxious thoughts and feelings? Welcome! I specialize in working with women, those in the perinatal period, parents and life transitions, and children and youth. I am here to help! I offer a warm space for you to feel comfortable to share and process your thoughts and feelings. I want to help you find your way through the joys and challenges.

Welcome! Do you come from a family with complex dynamics and feel like people don’t quite understand you? Have these experiences led to you being anxious, struggling to trust yourself or others? My unique understanding of these experiences allows me to hold space for those who feel unseen or unheard by people in their past or present life. I use EMDR, internal family systems, and somatic work that specialize in deepening people's understanding of themselves, leading them to rediscover or redefine their authentic selves. I am passionate about doing this work with older youth and adults who are new or have past therapy experience.

Klaus works with men and women as individuals and couples to heal from the past live more in the present and create a more powerful future. There are times when a person may feel confused, frustrated, and powerless in a life situation that seems to get bigger and worse.