VANCOUVER COUNSELLOR SERVICES - How we can help

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Our Services

It is possible to feel so much better. We specialize in interventions and therapy aimed at supporting you. Connect with us today.

We are a committed team of experienced therapists who will work with you to resolve your difficulties. Our hope is the challenging work that we do together will help you:

  • Cultivate connection with yourself
  • Tolerate and attend to your emotions
  • Improve your capacity to accept difficult emotions
  • Improve your ability to face difficult problems
  • Learn new coping tools to manage stress
  • Gain clarity on the priorities in your life
  • Develop a sense of mastery and competence
  • Develop greater awareness of yourself in relation to others
  • Understand psychological and physiological symptoms related to worry
  • Achieve a values-based life
  • Attribute success to your own efforts
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Who we help.

Learn more about Individual Counselling

Individuals

Learn more about Relationship Counselling

Couples

Learn more about Family Counselling

Families

What we help with.

Anger Management

Anxiety

OCD

ADHD

Life transitions

Teen stress

Sleep problems

Perfectionism

Learning disabilities

Worry

Stress

Panic attacks 

Depression

Life transitions

Childhood trauma

Perfectionism

Learning disabilities

Sadness

Relationships

Separation and Divorce

Communication skills

Assertiveness

Self-Esteem

Sibling rivalry

Oppositional behaviors

Social skills

Social anxiety 

Parent-Teen conflict 

Integrity

Boundaries

Grief and Loss

Life transitions

Loss of a loved one

MAID 

Separation and Divorce

How we help.

Connect with you

Explore your values, emotions and needs without judgement.

Collaborate and set goals

Develop a strategy based on your needs and values.

Empower you

Equip you with practical tools for healing and achieving your goals.

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Tools in our toolbox.

Cognitive Behavioral Theory

CBT is a practical, structured approach that focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In therapy, recognize your unhelpful thinking traps and learn how to challenge your recurring problematic thoughts and substitute more realistic and helpful beliefs. In addition, develop specific goals and tools (including exercise, relationships, and fun) to further improve your mood. Though it may sound deceptively simple, by changing your thoughts and behaviors you will begin to feel a lot better. You can stop struggling and start living.

A Family Systems Model

How you behave and how you react to situations is very closely connected to what you learned in childhood. The roles you play in your family affects how you behave and how you treat others. Uncover these childhood patterns that are impacting your current behaviors, actions and relationships. With awareness and different tools, you can start making better choices and restore balance to your life.

Positive Psychology

What is positive psychology? Positive psychology is about pursuing well-being. Learn how to build meaningful emotional connections with people important to you and create a better, more engaged life for yourself. There are 3 components to well-being: involvement, meaning, and doing things that put a smile on your face. By cultivating these three components, you can attempt to improve the relationship you have with yourself and others. You will start to partake in activities that make you feel better and stay away from those that deplete you.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

Mindfulness-based programs assist you in gaining peace of mind and feeling more grounded in your life. The 3 principals are: moment-to-moment living; non-judgemental awareness; and patience. Moment-to-moment living is achieved when you stay present and don’t worry about the past or future. Non-judgmental awareness is achieved when you treat yourself and your body with kindness. Patience is achieved when you’re non-reactive to troublesome thoughts and feelings. Using these principals, discover how to meditate mindfully and increase body awareness. By cultivating mindfulness principals, you’ll reduce stress; increase relaxation; and improve the quality of your life.

Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

ITSDP is a complex and elegant treatment paradigm designed to assess and treat a wide range. It is both structured and flexible and is based on psychodynamic theory and an extensive understanding of the implicit and unconscious processes that contribute to your symptoms and suffering. This highly effective approach focuses on your emotions, anxiety and defenses, and integrates these elements in neurobiology, attachment and emotion. This approach will help you create deep and enduring change in your ongoing sense of self and in relation to other. You will learn to thrive, create more fulfillment, purpose and connection to allow for deep transformational change.

Acceptance Commitment Therapy

ACT is based on six core principles that work together to help you cultivate a helpful mind-set known as “psychological flexibility”. This is an approach that encourages you to embrace your thoughts and feelings rather than fighting or feeling guilty for them. The greater your psychological flexibility, the better you can cope with difficult thoughts and feelings. This approach that develops psychological flexibility is a form of behavioral therapy that combines mindfulness skills with the practice of self-acceptance. Mindfulness + Values + Action = Psychological Flexibility. With this approach you will learn to identify your emotions, physical symptoms, defenses and avoidance patterns. The goal is to stop the avoidance patterns and identify your feelings.
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