Hi, I'm Annie
Founder & Registered Clinical Counsellor
My approach is shaped by my experience supporting youth and families in community settings, individuals and families navigating illness, grief, and major life transitions in hospital care, and adults working through anxiety, trauma, breakups, and relationship challenges in private practice.
Therapy with me looks like exploring:
How early relationships shape the ways we seek connection, protect ourselves, and relate to others and to ourselves.
The patterns that emerge in romantic and family relationships, especially during conflict, disconnection, and breakups.
How our own early experiences influence the way we parent, understand our children’s needs, and balance their needs with our own.
How past experiences and memories may be connected to present distress, using approaches such as EMDR to help process what continues to feel unresolved.
Education
Further Training
City University of Seattle
Master of Counselling
University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
Emotionally-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT) with ICEEFT
Eye Movement and Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
with Dr. Alivia Maric
The Integrated IFS and EMDR Model with Dr. Kendhal Hart
Services
Individual Counselling
Support for anxiety, trauma, relationships, life transitions, and patterns that may be keeping you stucks.
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Support for anxiety, trauma, relationships, life transitions, and patterns that may be keeping you stucks.
We’ll identify what’s keeping you stuck, set meaningful goals, and work toward lasting change. This may include exploring and healing underlying wounds, experiential exercises, and practical strategies you can use in your day-to-day life.
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Couples Counselling
Strengthen communication, understand recurring patterns, and build a more connected relationship.
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Strengthen communication, understand recurring patterns, and build a more connected relationship.
Every relationship experiences challenges. We will identify recurring patterns, strengthen understanding and communication, and increase the ability to navigate difficult conversations, with a focus on making meaningful repairs and fostering a healthier, more connected relationship.
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Parent-Child Counselling
Support for parents and teens navigating conflict, communication, emotional challenges, and connection.
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Support for parents and teens navigating conflict, communication, emotional challenges, and connection.
Parent-child sessions are designed for parents and youth aged 11 and up who are finding it difficult to communicate or feel understood by one another. We will explore what's getting in the way, create opportunities for more open conversations, and develop helpful ways of connecting with one another.
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My Approach
Evidence-based, trauma-informed care tailored to you
Featured Approach
EMDR therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help process difficult or overwhelming experiences, including trauma, attachment wounds, and anxiety, so they feel less distressing in the present.
Effective For
Attachment Trauma
Anxiety & PTSD
Single-incident trauma
Other Therapeutic Approaches I use
IFS
Internal Family Systems Therapy helps you understand and heal different parts of you with compassion, fostering greater inner balance.
ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps you build psychological flexibility, clarify your values, and take meaningful action toward your goals.
EFT
Emotionally Focused Therapy helps individuals and couples strengthen connection by understanding and reshaping emotional patterns.
RLT
Relational Life Therapy focuses on the impact of early relationships and helps heal attachment wounds through corrective, supportive relational experiences.
My Office
Burnaby (Metrotown)
Metrotower 2, Suite 2659
4720 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC V5H 4N2
Let's Connect
Burnaby (Metrotown)
Metrotower 2, Suite 2659
4720 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC V5H 4N2
778-322-3710
Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
Flexible appointment times are available upon request.
By appointment only.
