Improve Self-Confidence, Discover Your Resilience, and Live Authentically

Individual Therapy in Vancouver for People Ready to Make Meaningful Changes

The way you think affects how you behave. The messages you receive during childhood and adolescence shape your current thinking and behavior patterns. Without realizing it, these harmful patterns hold you back from living authentically, leaving you feeling stuck and powerless, convinced that things will never change.

Change is possible.

However, it takes work—intentionality, commitment, and genuine curiosity about yourself. In individual therapy with me, you’ll learn that the traumas you’ve experienced and the stories you tell yourself don’t have to dictate your reality. You can accept your past for what it is and live authentically in the present.

Issues I Explore With You Through Individual Counselling in Vancouver

Your story is unique. The situations and experiences you’ve faced may make you feel that many things are out of your control. In reality, you have more control over your life than you realize. Once you recognize this, you can reframe your challenges to promote growth and development.

I’m here to help with any challenges you’re facing, no matter how insurmountable they may seem. As a certified EMDR therapist in Vancouver and an experienced practitioner in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Therapy, and Somatic Therapies, we can work together on everything from self-esteem issues to trauma.

Together, we can effectively navigate:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Complex trauma and PTSD
  • Addiction
  • Grief
  • Life transitions
  • Identity issues

I also understand that your challenges can extend beyond mood disorders, diagnosable mental health conditions, and situational struggles. In our therapy sessions, we can explore and work on issues holding you back, such as:

  • Feeling humiliated
  • Feeling betrayed
  • Second-guessing yourself
  • All-or-nothing thinking
  • Fighting with reality
  • People-pleasing
  • Feelings of not having a voice
  • Giving up on your dreams
  • Having no sense of belonging
  • Feeling ostracized, neglected, blamed, or shamed
  • Wanting to forgive

You have the power to overcome harmful thought and behavior patterns. Remember, you have more control than you realize. I can compassionately and patiently help you break free from old ways of thinking, opening up a new and exciting life full of possibilities

What You’ll Achieve Through Individual Therapy in Vancouver

You may feel confused, paralyzed, beaten down, and helpless, but you don’t have to live that way. You can evolve, adapt, and change in response to whatever comes your way. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and other therapeutic approaches tailored to your unique needs, I’ll help you understand what you want to change and how to get there.

Through compassionate support, open and honest communication, and transparent guidance, I’ll help you discover and harness your innate strengths so you can confidently:

  • Believe in yourself
  • Make healthier choices
  • Entertain different perspectives
  • Understand that accepting doesn’t mean agreeing
  • Establish realistic expectations of yourself and others
  • Genuinely experience your emotions without responding destructively
  • Accept reality as it is rather than fight it
  • Understand the part you play in your relationships
  • Recognize that self-compassion does not mean letting yourself off the hook
  • Realize the importance of taking care of yourself before helping others
  • Accept that two things can be true at the same time

You have so much incredible potential. You just need an experienced and empathetic guide to help you harness it.

Choose Warm and Welcoming In-Person or Online Therapy

If you are in the Yaletown area of Vancouver, I’m more than happy to welcome you to in-person therapy in my cheerful, comfortable Yaletown studio.

For your convenience, you can also choose online individual therapy from anywhere in BC. I am also a certified member of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and have seen clients across Canada.

Whatever you choose, you’ll receive the same effective, understanding, and nonjudgmental counselling services. Whether you’re seeking a certified EMDR therapist in Vancouver or looking for an ally in your fight to reclaim control over your life, I’m here for you.

Your response to the events of life are more important than the events themselves.

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”

— VIRGINIA SATIR —