Lisa A. Butcher, MACP, RCC, CCC, CCS, BPEH, RT
Founder and CEO, Three Sisters Counselling
Registered Clinical Counsellor #16843
Canadian Clinical Supervisor, CCS designation
My client focus in my clinical practice includes treating First Responders, Physicians, RNs, RTs, Adults, Couples and Teens. I have a professional subspecialty in counselling First Responders and their families and am a former First Responder for 18 years in both Ontario and BC.
From a clinical supervision perspective I am formalliy trained in high conflict family de-escalation, family breakdown and the law, as well as family separation counselling.
My observation as a therapist is that people struggle to reconcile how things are with how they had hoped they would be. I believe this contributes to people feeling stuck. They find themselves caught between what they wanted their life to look like and what it does look like and they aren’t sure what to do about it.
I tend to be a solution-focused counsellor who strives to help people re-define their experiences in life. It is definitely important to understand why we feel the way we do, but it is equally important to understand what keeps us from being able to move through those feelings. I enjoy working with people to help them re-define what it means to be successful, happy, and capable. I teach people how to utilize what they have, to work towards what they want.
The ultimate goal of my work with clients is to give them tools to empower them to be able to make impactful changes in their own lives. This empowerment comes from within as I teach them to have self-compassion, the patience to persevere, and the foundational blocks of resilience.
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor and hold a Bachelor of Health and Physical Education from the University of Toronto, a post-graduate degree in Applied Health Science with a specialty in Respiratory Therapy from the Michener Institute of Applied Health Science in Toronto, and a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University. I have two decades of experience working with clients and their families in supporting their mental and physical health.
In 2019 I founded Three Sisters Counselling, which is a multi-disciplinary mental health clinic that now operates in Vancouver and Kelowna BC. I am a frequent guest speaker on the topic of Mental Health in the workplace and have presented over 250 talks to private and public corporations and institutions in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
My areas of focus include First Responder and frontline trauma, anxiety, depression, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Relationship issues, Communication issues, Parenting, Fertility, Perinatal and Post-Partum struggles, Return to Work support, Chronic Pain, CISD and more.
Therapeutic Modalities:
I am formally trained in CBT, EMDR, and DBT. I also draw from aspects of narrative therapy, mindfulness CBT, attachment theory, and guided imagery in my practice.
A little bit about me!
I am an extrovert who is profoundly interested in knowing who people are and how their experiences have shaped them. I am a mother of three girls and they are the core of who I am and everything I do. I enjoy the smell of ocean air, downhill skiing, travelling, and spending time with the love of my life and our extended family on both coasts of Canada.
Favourite Quotation:
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, nor did I wish to practice resignation. I wanted to live deep, cut a broad swath, and drive life into a corner”
–Henry David Thoreau
