Discover Healing From Trauma and Wise Ways to Live your Life
People come to Emotion Wise Counselling in all states of emotional pain knowing they will be met with non-judgmental warmth, collaboration, and an invitation to grow and heal. We value building a positive relationship of trust with you and work to understand your strengths. We believe these are the most important ingredients needed as we work together for change.
Throughout the work together we aim to honour your values, beliefs, and culture as guideposts to build a deepened sense of identity, strength and community connection.
Our Vancouver Trauma Therapists are trained in effective therapies for healing including Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).
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Trauma
We are honoured to work with people who have experienced complex trauma and PTSD, helping them to both understand and begin healing from the past. People we work with may have been adopted, in foster care, experienced abuse, rejection, or lack of nurturing by their family. Some people come with experiences of bullying, racism, and/or abusive relationships. We work on self-understanding, increasing feelings of safety, emotional health, and remembering and mourning past trauma. We use a variety of approaches including approaches EMDR, AEDP, and Narrative therapy.
Mood + Anxiety
Struggling with low or intense moods can be overwhelming and can stop you from living the life you have hoped for. Whether you are suffering from bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety or emotional regulation issues we are here to help you understand your feelings and thoughts and find ways to live your life with new awareness using CBT, DBT, EMDR, narrative therapy and AEDP.
Substance Use
Our therapists have extensive experience working with people who experience substance use issues. Our experience is that most people who are struggling with substances have experienced trauma and many have co-occurring mental health issues. We endeavour to address these issues using EMDR while also working on practical strategies drawn from DBT and CBT to reduce substance use.
Anger
We have worked with many people to develop ways to cope effectively with anger. We do this by first helping clients to understand the unmet needs behind anger and then to work on finding strategies that decrease the intensity of their reactions using DBT, CBT and EMDR.
Life Transitions
Life transitions come in many shapes and forms including: grief and loss, relationship changes, health changes, geographical changes, and vocational issues. We aim to be compassionately present to you as you face unexpected changes and find a new way going forward.
Group Therapy
April, our clinic founder has extensive experience and is passionate about offering groups. Our Trauma-Informed DBT groups are supportive and use evidence-based practices and skills drawing from EMDR and DBT.
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Meet Our Counsellors in Vancouver, BC
Our work is informed by research and led with compassion. Our therapists are trained in evidenced-based approaches for complex PTSD including EMDR therapy and DBT-informed therapy providing therapy in Vancouver, BC and BC-Wide.
