Enhance your emotional wellness and decrease your emotional distress
Effective Therapy Services for Your Well-Being and Resilience
Explore a range of dedicated therapy options designed to meet your specific needs. Whether you're seeking trauma recovery with EMDR, culturally sensitive support, or emotional regulation through DBT, our specialized services are here to assist you.
About Our Services
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Transformative Care for Overcoming Trauma
EMDR therapy is an extensively researched, effective therapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.
Our EMDR therapists guide clients through the eight-phase treatment to help them process these experiences and significantly diminish the distress and improve emotional well-being.
Key Benefits:
Accelerates Recovery: Typically achieves lasting relief from traumatic symptoms, more rapidly than traditional talk therapy.
Reduces Distress: Directly impacts the way the brain processes information, leaving clients feeling as though the trauma is in the past with diminished PTSD nightmares and flashbacks.
Empowers Clients: Helps clients feel more in control of their emotional responses and less overwhelmed by past experiences, and have greater self-worth and confidence.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Achieve Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Skills
DBT is particularly effective for individuals who experience intense emotions and struggle with relationships, anger, or mood disorders.
Our DBT groups focus on four key areas: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Through individual sessions and group skills training, clients learn to manage their emotions and interactions more effectively.
Key Benefits:
Mindfulness: Helps clients learn to observe and describe they thoughts and emotions remain present and engaged in the here and now.
Distress Tolerance: Equips clients with practical skills to get through painful, difficult situations, without making things worse.
Emotion Regulation: Offers strategies for understanding and changing intense emotions that are causing problems in a person’s life.
Interpersonal Effectiveness: Teaches techniques to allow clients to communicate with others in a way that is assertive, maintains self-respect, and strengthens relationships.
Accessible Counselling
Culturally Sensitive Support
Our therapists are experienced in working with clients from diverse backgrounds and offer culturally aware counselling in a respectful and understanding environment.
We focus on providing therapy that respects your cultural values and traditions, recognizing you as the expert in knowing what you need.
We are honoured to support clients from all cultural backgrounds on their journey to mental health and wellness. We aim to provide affordable counselling with many counsellors on our team approved by the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA), and Crime Victims Assistance Program (CVAP). Please inquire to find out which counsellors are FNHA and CVAP approved.
Key Benefits:
Cultural Awareness: Acknowledges the effects of colonialism, and valuing Indigenous and non-western ways of knowing as well as utilizing evidence-based therapy for a holistic approach.
Accessible Care: Ensures that counselling is both affordable and reflective of community values.
Community Focused: Builds on community strengths and resources to promote healing.
How We Help You
At Emotion Wise Counselling, we are committed to your mental health and emotional well-being. Our goal is to provide a supportive environment that fosters emotional growth through providing effective evidence-based approaches to healing trauma and building new and effective coping skills. Here’s how we help you navigate through life’s challenges with strength and resilience.
Meet Our Vancouver Counselling Team
Our team of skilled therapists is dedicated to providing compassionate and client-centred care. Meet the professionals who are here to support your path to better emotional wellness.
Jamie Hellewell
MEd RCC
EMDR and DBT Therapist
In-Person & Virtual
Accepting New Clients
Jamie has a keen interest in working alongside people with complex trauma, and those wanting to make meaning and discover purpose in their life. He approaches therapy with an existential therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), CBT, EMDR, and a DBT-Informed lens.
Pricing: $150 per 50-minute individual counselling session (ages 18 and up). In-Person Vancouver counselling available
Cara Mann
MA RCC
EMDR and DBT Therapist
In-Person & Virtual
FNHA & CVAP approved
Waiting list for In-Person Clients
Cara has 15 years of experience working with complex, trauma, anxiety, OCD and emotion regulation issues with EMDR, CBT, and DBT. She is experienced in working with adults, youth, and parents and caregivers. She is committed to offering a path forward to lasting change.
Pricing: $165 per 50-minute individual counselling session (ages 12 and up). In-Person Vancouver and Evenings available.
Suvi Teigen
MSW RSW
EMDR Therapist
Virtual only
FNHA approved
Accepting New Clients
Suvi has 25+ years of experience and is trained in EMDR and ACT and works with trauma, anxiety, depression, self-esteem, grief and self-care and burnout. She is passionate in accompanying people as they become and remain the best versions of themselves.
Pricing: $165 per 50-minute individual counselling session (ages 16 and up) In-person Vancouver and evening appointments available.
Mila Loskutova
MC RCC
EMDR and DBT Therapist
In-Person & Virtual
CVAP approved
Waiting List for New Clients
Mila is a trained trauma therapist who works with people who have experienced complex trauma including: Queer folx, youth, and immigrants. She uses DBT, CBT and EMDR. She is a firm believer in therapy being collaborative; helping folks learn to become grounded and trust in themselves.
Pricing: $165 per 50-minute individual counselling session (ages 12 and up). In-Person Vancouver and Evenings available
April Griffin
MSW RSW RCC
EMDR and DBT Therapist
In-Person & Virtual
FNHA & CVAP approved
Not accepting new clients
April has extensive experience in assisting individuals who have experienced trauma and emotional challenges. She employs evidence-based approaches such as DBT, AEDP, and EMDR. She offers a compassionate and skillful approach to therapy.
Pricing: $170 per 50-minute individual counselling session (ages 17 and up). In-Person Vancouver counselling available
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