Canadian Mental Health Association – North and West Vancouver Branch

Website: northwestvancouver.cmha.bc.ca
Phone: (604) 724-4749
Email:  [email protected]
Address: 300-1835 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC V7M 2J8

We can help if you’re going through a difficult time or life transition, need help with an important decision or relationship challenge, or if you need tools to cope with stress, anxiety, depression, or anger.

At CMHA North and West Vancouver, we offer low-barrier, individual and group counselling to adults on the North Shore and, more recently, to the Sunshine Coast and beyond. Clients can self refer, and are given the choice of seeing a supervised Practicum Student, completing their Masters of Counselling degree ($25/hr) or a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) ($50/hr). Clients are offered up to 8 sessions, after which they can be referred to other services in the community or go back on the wait list, which is typically 10 weeks long. Counselling is always client centered, and evidence informed, and includes approaches such as CBT, Art Therapy, ACT, Mindfulness, DBT skills training, Narrative and Solution Focused interventions. We offer treatment for anxiety, depression, grief, transitions, stress, anger management and emotion regulation, and chronic illness/pain. We educate and support clients who experience more severe issues such as Trauma, Psychosis, Addiction, Bipolar Disorder and Self Harm, and refer them to more specialized, longer term care in the community.