• Are you in private practice?: Yes
• Do you participate in any insurance plans?: Yes
  It is the responsibility of the client to check with the human resources department of their employer to see if they have insurance coverage
• Do you offer sliding scale/reduced fee counselling? Yes
• Telephone/Video counseling: Yes
• Please list all languages that you speak: English and French

What Kind of Clients Do You Work With

Individuals (teens and adults), Couples, and Families.

Healthy, loving relationship is the soil in which we grow and thrive. Sometimes, despite our good intentions and best efforts, we find ourselves stuck in relationship patterns that hurt more than help. With some help in unpacking what you are experiencing and your core values, desires, and needs, you can come to experience your life, self, and relationships in new ways with happier, healthier ways of living, loving, and being with others and yourself.

Bio

Brian has worked with teens, parents, individuals, families, and couples for the past five years, helping them to find healthier, more authentic and fulfilling ways of living, communicating, and loving themselves and each other. He operates through the lenses of attachment theory and developmental theory with an integrative, experiential, and emotionally focused approach. He enjoys creatively applying various therapy approaches and tools according to each client's needs and goals to make therapy more engaging and effective. 

Brian completed a Master’s of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy and is registered with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC) and the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta. Whether working with individuals, families or couples, Brian works through a systemic approach and the lens of attachment theory as well as the bilateral integrative function of the human brain. He has worked with clients struggling with chronic stress, childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, and dysfunctional family and relationship patterns.

Credentials, Training, Qualifications

Education

• Masters of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy
• Clinical Supervision
• Observed Experiential Integration –Level 1
• Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy Externship – Vancouver Couples and Family Institute
• Emotionally Focused Therapy Masters Class - Sue Johnson
• Emotionally Focused Family Therapy
• Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1 – Satir Institute of the Pacific
• Neufeld Intensive Level 1: Making Sense of Kids - The Neufeld Institute
• Sand-tray Therapy 
• When Love Hurts, Domestic Violence Basics

Expertise

• Family of Origin and Internal Family Systems work
• Teens
• Couples Counselling
• Parenting and Family Counselling
• Integration of client spirituality into the counselling process

Counselling Methods Used

• Emotionally Focused Therapy
• Observed Experiential Integration
• Sand Tray Therapy