About Lisa
Associate Counsellor
Lisa is a trauma-informed counsellor in North Vancouver who meets people with genuine warmth, compassion, and a deep respect for the stories that have shaped them. She brings a steady, calming presence to her sessions, offering a supportive space where youth, adults, and families can breathe, feel understood, and move at a pace that feels right for them.
With many years of experience in youth and family counselling, Lisa has supported individuals through a wide range of emotional and life challenges. She has worked closely with youth in care, parents, and neurodivergent children and adults, helping them navigate emotional regulation, identity development, and relationship dynamics. Her time working alongside Indigenous children, families, and communities deeply shaped her commitment to cultural safety, relational connection, and trauma-aware practice.
Lisa also has extensive front-line experience providing addiction and trauma support in the Downtown Eastside. These environments strengthened her ability to stay grounded, present, and compassionate—skills that now anchor her counselling work with clients seeking stability, resilience, and emotional healing.
Her therapeutic approach is relational, somatic, and attachment-based, integrating polyvagal-informed strategies, mindfulness, crisis response tools, and solution-focused techniques. Across all her roles, Lisa aims to help clients untangle what feels heavy, reconnect with their inner resources, and build the confidence and stability they’ve been longing for.
Training & Credentials
• Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling – Provisional (CPCA)
• Counselling Therapist Diploma – Stenberg College
• Additional training in trauma-informed practice, somatic approaches, polyvagal-informed work, crisis response, couples foundations, sex-therapy fundamentals, and mindfulness
Ages Served: Ages 10 +
Support Topics
Abuse (childhood abuse, domestic abuse, sexual abuse)
Adapting to lifestyle changes and aging
Adoption
Addressing loneliness and isolation
Addictions (drug and/or alcohol)
Anger management
Anxiety
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Authentic Self-Discovery: Unmasking Who You Truly Are
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Bereavement
Behaviour support services
Bipolar disorder
Body image issues
Body positivity
Borderline personality disorder
Career guidance
Child Mental Health
Co-dependency
Colonization
Complex Trauma / C-PTSD
Coping skills
Coping with health changes
De-colonizing life and practice
Dementia diagnosis and support
Depression
Discovering Purpose and Meaning in Life
Dissociative disorders
Divorce and separation
Domestic violence
Dual diagnosis
Eating disorders / Maladaptive eating
Emotional disturbances
Emotional turmoil
Exercise planning
Facing end-of-life issues
Family conflict
Family dynamics
First responders’ mental health
Gambling
Grief
Infidelity
Intergenerational Trauma
Internet addiction
Life coaching
Life management issues
Life transitions
Loss
Managing grief and bereavement
Marital discord
Meal planning
Meditation
Mood disorders
Navigating family and caregiver relationships
Non-ordinary experience integration (e.g., spiritual, extraordinary experiences)
Obesity
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Overcoming phobias, such as fear of death
Parenting children with special needs
Parenting education
Parenting issues (including child-rearing and education)
Parent-teen mediation
Peer relationships
Personality disorders (narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder)
Psychosis
Rehabilitation from trauma
Relationship and marriage conflict
School issues
Self-esteem issues
Sexual abuse
Sexual behaviours
Sexualized violence
Sexuality (2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive)
Sleep issues or insomnia
Spirituality (non-emergency spiritual issues)
Stress management
Suicidal ideation
Trauma and PTSD
Video game addiction
Youth Mental Health
Therapeutic Approaches
Attachment Theory
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Narrative Therapy
Person-Centered Therapy (PCT)
Polyvagal Theory
Psychodynamic Approach
Somatic Therapy
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
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