About Maryanne
Session Information - Individual Counselling
Format:
* In-person (Walk & Talk or in-office)
* Virtual (video or telephone)
Rate
* 50 minutes $150
* 75 minutes $225
- FNHA mental health provider
- waitlist for subsidy is full
Availability
* Tuesdays 12:30 - 3:30pm (video, phone)
* Wednesdays 11:30am-8pm (video, telephone, walk & talk in West End Vancouver)
* Saturday 2-8pm (video, telephone, in-office, walk & talk in Mount Pleasant)
**Maryanne is vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19. For in-person appointments you must be fully vaccinated/boosted and be willing to wear a mask.
Sometimes we need a place where we can kick off our shoes, speak our minds plainly, and work through difficult situations, thoughts, and feelings. Grounding sessions in respect, empathy, and curiosity, Maryanne strives to co-create a space where you can exhale, unpack, explore, grow, and move forward.
Maryanne has been a registered social worker since 2012, providing counselling and social work services for a wide range of folks including
* 2SLGBTQIA+
* QTPoC
* Second-generation diaspora
* Folks with disabilities
* ADHD
* Seniors aging in place
* Caregivers of vulnerable adults
* Poly/ethical non-monogamy
* BDSM/kink/leather
Maryanne has both professional and lived experience in these areas:
* navigating multiple group memberships (e.g. sexuality and cultural minority; gender and disability)
* traversing daily life with neurodivergence
* self-esteem, anxiety, depression, perfectionism
* exploring sexuality and gender (including initial conversations about hormone therapies)
* alternate relationship configurations
* life transitions
Medically based services
* advance care planning and end-of-life planning
* Medical Assistance in Dying conversations
* adjustment to changes in ability
* caregiver burnout
* navigating medical systems
What are sessions with Maryanne like?
Maryanne approaches their work with a relationally accountable, inquisitive spirit and trauma-aware, harm reduction approach. Sessions often feel like a friendly conversation - both laughter and inconveniently truthful reflections are commonplace. Expect to explore both your internal landscape and the larger systems in society impacting what we think/feel. With Maryanne’s social work hat on, problem-solving, brainstorming, planning, medical systems navigation, and supportive resource scaffolding are possible.
Counselling Style and Focus
Maryanne uses an integrative counselling style, pulling from person-centered, narrative, somatic, internal family systems, and evidence-based traditions (if requested). Their perspective is inflected with an intersectional feminist social justice lens.
About maryanne
Maryanne is a queer, neurodivergent, gender-fluid, fat, second-generation Chinese Canadian settler with invisible disabilities. They live upon the stolen territories of the səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam) Nations. As a settler, Maryanne strives to treat the First Peoples, land, and plant/animal relatives with care and respect. When not in conversation with clients, Maryanne enjoys snuggling with their small fluffy dog, welcoming folks into various alt-spaces, planting urban food forests, choreography, and introducing friends to dim sum. They look forward to connecting with you!
####questions? maryanne@collective-healing.ca
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