Elaine Clark is a Registered Professional Counsellor with a BA in Counselling Psychology. Elaine is comfortable with a full range of clients including Individuals, Couples, Families and Youth. Along with Diederik Wolsak the co-founder, Elaine was proud to share in the launch of a successful pilot program in Costa Rica that became the foundation and catalyst for the Choose Again Healing Center.

The past 20 years has also found Elaine hard at work for the Ministry of Children and Families both as a Child Care Worker and as a foster parent of adolescents.  As a senior facilitator with the Youth on Purpose organizations, she has had wonderful years working with teens and their families.

Her Strengths:

• Addictions
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Grief & Loss
• Stress
• Trauma & Abuse

Elaine is a leader in every sense of the word as a counsellor, coach, and referring clients to the right treatment center.  She compliments other leaders at weekly circles and monthly workshops held at the Choose Again offices in Vancouver.

You may reach Elaine at her private practice:
Ph: 604-857-1615
Or Choose Again in Vancouver:
Ph: 604 221-2292

Jennifer Scott, MA, ADTR, RCC, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, with more than 20 years as a social worker, educator, and counsellor in a variety of settings including psychiatric, medical, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation hospitals, community-based treatment centers, residential care facilities, and schools. She presently has a private practice with offices in West Vancouver serving throughout West and North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby, Bowen Island, and Squamish.

Jennifer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, her Bachelor of Social Work from McGill University in Montreal, and her Master of Arts in Dance/Movement Therapy and Counselling Psychology from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire.

Jennifer is skilled in helping people transform major life challenges into opportunities for change, growth, and connection offering treatment aftercare and outpatient counselling and psychotherapy for adults, youth, the elderly and groups.

Mind-Body Counselling and Psychotherapy

Cognitive-Behavioural and Mind-body Counselling and Psychotherapy Services include, but are not limited to, such key areas as:
• Addictions
• Stress
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Sleep problems
• Grief and Loss
• Trauma & PTSD
• Abuse and Rape
• Relationship issues
• Caregiver stress
• Eldercare and Women's issues
• Chronic Fatigue/Fibromyalgia

Using a variety of theories and approaches, Jennifer helps her clients access their own (often hidden) resources to promote healing and transformation in their journey towards wholeness, authenticity, genuine positive relationships, and a deepening connection to self, nature, spirit, and community.

Jennifer is a member of the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors and the American Dance Therapy Association, and a founding member of Movement Matters Association.

Call for a free consultation:
604-926-5304

Charlaine Avery, M Ed., RCC focuses on the biological, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual effects Addictions and other Mental Health Concerns may have on the individual as well as their families, the workplace and communities.

Charlaine understands this is a critical time of discovery as well as recovery.
Whether you are the person with the addiction and/or mental health concern or a loved one affected by the actions of another, Charlaine addresses each personally and in unity, setting goals for individual and family recovery.

Charlaine brings a Masters Degree in counselling from Simon Fraser University, fifteen years practical experience as a counsellor PLUS post-graduate training in counselling techniques such as: Cognitive Behavioural, Solution Focused, Narrative, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Virginia Satir's Brief Therapy Model and meditation, that prepares and readies Charlaine to lead each client into a new journey of facing some of life’s many challenges with new goals of healthy change and living.

Charlaine Avery provides therapy for
individuals, couples and families
in areas of:

Addiction Anger Anxiety Assertiveness
Communication Depression EMDR
Emotions Management Grief and Loss
Health and Well-Being Goal Setting
Healthy Couples Life Transitions Meditation
Parenting & Step-Parenting
Separation & Divorce
Sexual & Physical Abuse Trauma Worry

Phone: (604) 724-7763

Tannis Hugill has a Master’s degree in Somatic Psychology, is a registered B.C. Clinical Counsellor, registered Dance and Drama therapist and Spiritual Director. She brings over twenty years’ experience of healing through the arts and to her work with individuals, groups, adolescents and adults, especially those with addictions, trauma, eating and body image problems. She is experienced in hospital and private practice settings, has coordinated a hospital eating disorders program, and taught on the university level.

Tannis’ passion is helping others experience vitality, creativity and wisdom of their bodies as a source of healing transformation.

Beliefs:

Our bodies are the signatures of who we are. They express our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and the unconscious through movement, gesture, voice and facial expressions. It is through them that we relate to others and ourselves. Though addictive behaviors were developed to cope with emotional, mental, physical and spiritual pain, they disconnect us from our bodies and ourselves.

By learning listen to our bodies’ we can discover and truly satisfy our needs for safety, love and compassionate self-acceptance.

Explore:

• Dance and Drama Therapy
• Spiritual Direction
• Authentic Movement
• Moving Prayer
  

Individual therapy and Spiritual Direction sessions by appointment.

• authentic movement
• moving prayer
• embodying the roles we play
• hunger spirit and the body
• ecstatic body postures
  
  
  In addition to seeing clients, leading workshops and professional development trainings,
  Tannis Hugill is a board member of Movement Matters Association
  and is on the planning committee of the Women’s Spirituality Celebration.
  
  Telephone: 604.267.9951

Individual counselling for any addiction gives you a chance to resolve your problems in a safe place. Addictive behaviours actually cover up unresolved feelings such as sadness, anger, resentment, and feelings of low self-worth. As we work together in therapy, we will uncover the deeper reasons for your unhealthy choices. You will then be able to eliminate your need to engage in destructive addictive behaviours.

Counselling will also help you become aware of the solutions that will work best for who you uniquely are. Our goal in therapy is to overcome problematic addictive patterns and help you make more positive life choices.

I provide therapy and counselling services for the Greater Vancouver area including Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond, North Vancouver and West Vancouver. I also provide phone therapy for clients who are unable to attend sessions in person.

"I also provide Telephone Counselling worldwide." 

Phone: 604-677-5876

Crossroads offers counselling and psychotherapy on an outpatient basis. Clients receive counselling around their addiction and underlying issues such as grief, abuse, trauma, and mental health. Family members looking for their own counselling around the impact of addiction and their own ability to draw boundaries have found benefit in this service as well.

Why Outpatient Addiction Counselling

• For some people, the option of going to residential treatment does not fit into their life.
• For others, outpatient addiction counselling will be enough for them to explore their addiction while continuing to function in their lives.
• Those coming to our 28-day residential program may wish to supplement their group treatment with individual counselling.
• Often times clients want to continue with one-on-one counselling after they leave residential treatment (whether here or somewhere else) as part of their aftercare.

Addiction Counselling Services

• Individual Counselling – one-on-one psychotherapy for adults struggling with addiction or in recovery.
• Family Counselling – helping couples and families heal from the impact of addiction
• Family Consultations – helping families determine how to help/manage a loved one with an addiction. (Usually a one time meeting with possible follow ups).
• Family Meetings – our version of an intervention where the addicted loved one is invited to the meeting.

Meet our Outpatient Therapist

Jason McCarty, MA, CCC

Jason holds a Masters degree in Psychology with a Specialization in Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a Canadian Certified Counsellor through the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Jason has been in a variety of roles at Crossroads. He has taught workshops, facilitated therapy groups, and managed the treatment programs. His counselling approach is grounded in humanistic/existential principles and operates from an integrative and systemic understanding of addiction and people. Jason realizes that each client is different and that their time in counselling will be individualized. Jason’s passion is helping people to break free into who they really are.

Phone: 250-860-4001 contact Jason directly at ext. 317

Located in North Vancouver, BC
Marilyn firmly believes that through counselling or psychotherapy, each person can learn new ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that can enhance one's capacity to lead a fulfilling life!

Armed with her Doctorate Degree and Masters in Counselling Psychology, Marilyn started her private practice in 1992. Today, Marilyn is able to draw on her vast, practical experience having worked in drug and alcohol treatment centres, provincial mental health centres, and with employee & family assistance programs, offering both short and long-term therapy.

While enjoying working with individuals, couples and families, Marilyn’s theoretical framework is primarily psychodynamic, though she draws on techniques from other modalities, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, gestalt therapy, dream analysis, body/energy therapy, motivational enhancement, and 12-step concepts for addictions/behavioural concerns.

Primary Areas of Practice:

• Addictions - Including Substances
• Adolescent Issues
• Depression
• Dreams
• Eating Disorders
• Family Issues
• First Nations, Inuit and Metis Issues
• Intimacy Issues
• Marital/Relationship Issues
• Parenting Issues

“Therapy is an invitation to explore the frontiers of your mind, and to learn new ways of being in the world so that wishes are replaced by fulfilling realities.”
Change is possible!

Phone: 604-986-9468

Recent research has overwhelming shown the importance of pre and post care treatment in the ongoing success of addiction recovery. EDGEWOOD is delighted to now offer on-going support pre and post treatment in the new EDGEWOOD Vancouver office located at 7^th and Granville.

More than just a clinical office, EDGEWOOD Vancouver represents what we believe will be the next major innovation for EDGEWOOD’s modality of treating addiction. The combination of long term aftercare with built-in monitoring and consequences (therapeutic, not punitive), regular meetings to ensure adherence and 12 Step requirements have excellent sobriety results.

Pre-Care Program - is designed to assist both the family and patient in recognizing the disease of addiction and its attendant behaviors and to support them in their decision to seek treatment.

AfterCare Services - Maintaining a long-term, healthy recovery is an on-going process that requires support both within the family and from the community at large.

On-Going Services - As life in recovery progresses often secondary recovery issues surface. Recognizing this, Edgewood offers a continuum of personal services for as long as it takes.

Patrick Zierten, Program Director

EDGEWOOD - Vancouver Addiction Services 1525 West 7^th Avenue

Phone: 604.734.1100 - Cell: 778.686.6376 - 1.800.683.0111 (24 hours)

Are you a woman who is feeling overwhelmed, hopeless, and not knowing where to turn?  Does everyone else think you’ve got it all together, yet inside you feel totally out of control?  Are you tired of trying to do it all on your own?

Primary Areas of Practice:

• addictions to alcohol and/or drugs
• depression
• anxiety
• grief/loss
• food/body image problems
• low self-esteem
• infertility
• peri-menopause or menopause
• relationship issues
• finding your purpose in life
• family problems

If any of these apply to you, help is here!

Finally, someone who will listen the way you want to be listened to and help you feel in control and able to find solutions to your problems.

Esther's office is located in Courtenay (Comox Valley), BC. She provides therapy and counselling services for the following communities on Vancouver Island: Courtenay, Comox, Campbell River, Cumberland, Nanaimo, Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Tofino, Port Alberni, and Powell River, British Columbia.

To book a session or to set up a FREE 15-minute phone consultation, call Esther at 250.338.1800  Evening appointments available.

Ina Stockhausen, RPC

Are you in the process of deciding to seek counselling to solve a problem or to overcome obstacles that have kept you from reaching your goals and becoming the person you want to be? I not only bring to you my professional and practical skills and knowledge in a place of safety and compassion, but honour and respect your uniqueness as an individual. You will experience a highly personalized approach, tailored to your specific needs!

It’s time to live your life with a real sense of self-worth, growth and
well-being!

Together, we will examine whether your current issues are influenced by beliefs and old ways of thinking that should no longer serve you. I will provide you with transformational tools to open your heart, receive more joy in your life, heal your inner child, and resolve past injuries.

Positive change and healing happens when we consider the whole person!

Too often how we feel is how we behave.  Through searching your mind, body, emotions and spirit we will seek to connect with your core self, the place that contains your inner voice, your real truth and your authenticity.  From this place we will “free the prisoner” and you can start to live the full life you truly deserve.

Whether dealing with myriad of addictions or self-defeating thoughts and behaviours, my goal starts with dealing with core issues.

My services include:

• Individual Counselling
• Counselling for Family & Couples
• Counselling for Men
• Counselling for Women
• Premarital Counselling/Relationship Success
• Counselling for Emotional Eating
• LGBTQ Counselling

*Serving North Vancouver, Vancouver & surrounding areas*

Hollyburn Family Services is a multi-service community-based organization providing a range of integrated support services to children, youth, families and seniors in the greater Vancouver region. Hollyburn programs include individual and family counselling, family support and parent education services, residential treatment centres for youth, alternate school programs, substance misuse counselling, home support services for seniors and persons with special needs and autism services.

• ADDICTION INTERVENTION, TREATMENT AND RECOVERY
  
• ADDICTION TREATMENT AFTERCARE
  
• ADDICTION FAMILY COUNSELLING AND AFTERCARE
  
• ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTERS AND RECOVERY HOUSES
  
• MARRIAGE & FAMILY COUNSELLING
  
• SPIRTUAL FOUNDATION & DIRECTION
  
• RETREATS & WORKSHOPS

• ALCOHOL & DRUG SUBSTANCE ABUSE
  
• INAPROPRIATE SEXUAL BEHAVIOURS
  
• EATING DISORDERS
  
• GAMBLING PROBLEMS

Kathleen’s education includes:

UBC School of Social Work, Pacific Coast Family Therapy, Adlerian Psychology Association, UBC Regent College (M.C.S.) and Georgetown University Family Center (Post Grad studies).

Therapeutic approaches:

Kathleen incorporates a number of different therapeutic approaches, including Bowen Family Systems theory, Neurofeedback, Enlisten sound therapy, 12-step facilitation and spiritual direction. Combined with her kind and compassionate approach, Kathleen is often able to reach people that have been unsuccessful with other approaches.

At Kathleen Landry and Associates, an intervention is the loving process into a troubled person's life to help motivate them to change and seek help. It is a process that begins long before the troubled person is even spoken to and continues long after the person seeks help. It involves the caring support of the troubled person's closest friends, family and business associates. It is a process that brings the person's "bottom up" rather than waiting for the person to "sink to the bottom"

Lee has a Masters degree in counselling from Antioch University, and is an experienced teacher and supervisor, as well as a practitioner of counselling and psychotherapy.
Some Background:
- Counselled in mental health agencies
- Worked in residential addictions treatment
- Facilitated support groups for people with anxiety disorders
- Counselled individuals and groups in private practice
- Taught counselling for Vancouver Community College, the Counsellor Training Institute, and the Addictions Counselling Program of Medicine Hat College
- Supervised student and lay counselors
- Taught Gestalt theory for the Gestalt Experiential Training Institute in Vancouver, and written about it for The British Gestalt Journal and for publications in the US and France.

For over 20 years, Lee has helped people struggling with:
• addiction
• depression and anxiety
• suicidal thoughts and feelings
• relationship difficulties
• workplace and education issues

Private Counselling

Life Development Resources' highly skilled and trained counsellors educate, empower, and provide options and solutions to help move clients to effective problem solving. • Post Treatment Monitoring • Substance Abuse Counselling • Relapse Prevention • Anger Management and Conflict Resolution • Personal Issues Counselling

We offer

• Post Treatment Monitoring
• Substance Abuse Counselling
• Relapse Prevention
• Anger Management and Conflict Resolution
• Personal Issues Counselling

Her counselling design, which transcends the usual approaches in therapy, is to help each client access solutions through a proven 2-step formula. The benefits of her methods are well documented in the scientific research.

1) The mind-body concept, the connection between emotional duress and physical symptoms, is a focal point of this approach. This step utilizes various energy psychologies, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Self Regulation theory and Thought Field Therapy/Emotional Freedom Techniques.

2) Utilizing a cognitive behavioural model, which promotes rational thinking, Michele teaches a reality-based belief system that can transform your life and elevate feelings of self-sufficiency for your future.
Her certification in this approach is rare which gives each client a distinct advantage.

Located in a comfortable character house in New Westminster, BC, Michele provides services in Greater Vancouver, including Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Richmond, and Surrey. Appointments are booked from Tuesday to Friday, between 10:00 am and 7:00 pm and Saturdays between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm.

Phone: 604 515-9727

Welcome to Pegasus Recovery Solutions! 

Pegasus offers a full range of recovery services to support individuals, couples, families and the workplace in attaining freedom from substance abuse and dependence.  Our menu offers from outpatient counselling to coaching, post treatment continuing care, custom designed interventions, to monitored recovery agreements and case management.  We also accept individual, family and professional referrals.

Sue Donaldson RSW,
Certified Executive Coach
Board Registered Interventionist – Level 1

Sue Donaldson and the team at Pegasus offer the expertise and skills to provide each client, including family and friends, a specialized level of encouragement, support and direction along the full journey of learning and processing the needs of recovery from addictions and other, often related concerns. The primary difference with Sue and the Pegasus Team is their non-judgmental attitude combined with genuine care, flexibility and adaptability, and the feeling that you are no longer alone.  Your safety and confidentiality are assured.

Our Menu

• Counselling
• Recovery Coaching
• Case Management
• Interventions
• Monitoring
• Continuing Care for individuals and groups
• Training and Consultation
• Workshop Facilitation

When you need help now

Whether it be the individual or the family desperately concerned about a loved one’s use of substances or an employer concerned about the health and performance of an employee including safety and further protection of others, we believe that the response to the “open window” of readiness to consider change needs to be immediate and effective. Therefore, the first phone consult is free and the first appointment will be obtained within two business days.

Phone: 250-514-1083

Recovery From Addiction Less Than What You Hoped For? 

You can leave the pain behind and finally be at peace with yourself and your loved ones! Addiction recovery is a major process of readjustment.  This transition time can be filled with a lot of growth as well as obstacles.  Many people struggle in the first few months and years of recovery to find their comfort zone.  However, it is not your destiny to ride an emotional roller coaster.  With the right strategies, skills and motivation, your pain and uncertainty can be replaced by a sense of balance, calm and fulfillment.  Counselling can be a vital source of help to get you moving in the right direction quickly during this time of recovery!

Are You Or Someone You Love Experiencing These Problems In Recovery?

• Mood swings
• Negative thinking
• Difficulty coping with strong emotions such as anger, anxiety or sadness
• Slipping back into substance abuse or compulsive behaviours, such as gambling or workaholism
• Replacing one addictive substance or habit with another
• Feel like you are living in the past due to former hurts, losses or traumas
• Inability to handle stress well
• Problems developing or sustaining intimate relationships
 
Benefits of Recovery Counselling

• Break free from relapse to substance abuse and other addictive behaviours
• Overcome the hurt of abuse and trauma so you feel in control of your life
• Put grief and loss behind you so you can live for today and look forward to tomorrow
• Conquer stress and anxiety - rediscover peace of mind
• Rise above depressed thinking and negative beliefs
• Develop a solid sense of confidence, contentment and direction in life
• Learn to trust yourself and others more deeply
• Create satisfying relationships that last
• Know yourself better so you can make constructive choices and take effective action

Recovery Counselling Solutions helps people just like you transcend addiction and achieve a fuller recovery, so you can feel more resilient and satisfied with life and love, work and play.  Help Is Available Now!  Don't lose another day feeling stressed, confused, dissatisfied, isolated or adrift.

To Book a Free 15 Minute Consultation
Phone: 778-837-0616
Glynis Sherwood  MEd CCC
Addictions Recovery Expert

Tara is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a Certified Group Psychotherapist with a Masters Degree in Counselling Psychology. Tara’s practical approach comes with over 25 years of clinical experience in the mental health and addiction fields, 18 of which are in private practice in West Vancouver, Tara makes a difference offering both short and long term counselling.

Assuring a safe, confidential and professional setting, Tara works primarily from a Psychodynamic and Interpersonal framework. Tara also comes equipped with other approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural therapy.

“While the therapeutic relationship is very important in all approaches to therapy, using the relationship between client and therapist as an “agent of change” is one of the hallmarks of the psychodynamic method.”

Special Services:

• addictions and codependency
• adult children of alcoholics
• adults who have suffered trauma and abuse as children

Tara works with a variety of issues including:

• anxiety, stress and burnout
• depression
• identity and self-esteem issues
• perfectionism
• relationship and intimacy problems

In addition:

Tara’s work with couples and individuals helps them improve their relationships and communication skills, while helping those looking for relationships find and overcome the roadblocks that have prevented their success.

Her research and ongoing interests include:

“MMPI Profile Changes in Alcoholic Patients After Treatment and Follow-Up Period” Concordia advanced research program, Montreal (1981)
“The Effects of Parental Alcoholism in Childhood on Personality Outcome” Masters Thesis, Chicago (1988)

Assessment, referral and post treatment follow-up therapy for individuals with alcohol and drug abuse problems is also offered through her practice.

Telephone: 604-926-7411

The Top Of The World Treatment Centres mission is to provide the finest available Addiction Rehabilitation Services through state of the art, evidence based and holistic treatments that are accessible, affordable and client centered. We believe that addiction is a brain disease that manifests itself along biological, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions. We strive to guide our clients to heal and recover along these dimensions and to appreciate the gift of life and aim to facilitate a healthy sustainable lifestyle transformation.

Treatment/Counselling Programs

The Top Of The World Treatment Centres treatment programs adheres to ASAM’s (American Society of Addiction Medicine) guidelines for client placement criteria Level I to Level III.
The TOTW-C together with Top of the World Ranch Treatment Centre provides 3 outpatient; Individual Program, Evening Program, Intensive Day Program and 1 residential treatment option.

We encourage a balanced living approach to recovery, which emphasizes regular self-care, stress reduction with exercise, stretching/yoga, mindfulness meditation, recovery supporting literature, and therapies for enhanced internal tranquility as a means to support attention span and information retention as part of a clinically proven cognitive functioning repair process.

Phone Administration: 403-293-5115 or Toll Free: 1-877-293-5115