Vanessa Thomson, RCC - 202-2700 Barnet Hwy, Coquitlam - KAYDA HEALTH Focus on: ✨High Achiever Stress, Anxiety, Burnout & Career Challenges ✨ Women's Trauma, Self Esteem & Identity ✨ Parents & Couples ✨ Maternal Mental Health
**Vanessa Thomson, Clinical Counsellor**
✨High Achiever Stress, Anxiety, Burnout & Career Challenges
✨ Women's Trauma, Self Esteem & Identity
✨ Parents & Couples - Mindful Care-giving
✨ Maternal Mental Health
**Service:** Vanessa helps stressed out, anxious, neurodivergent women, mothers, couples, and professionals balance a complex life and journey to greater peace, contentment, and authenticity. Focusing on managing emotions, building healthy coping skills and creating YOUR meaningful life is what Vanessa does using a biopsychosocial approach that considers your whole person and the many factors that influence your life.
**Approach:** Vanessa uses a Person-centred & strengths-based approach drawing on Solution-Focused Therapy, Attachment theory, and Lifespan Integration (Level 1 certified). She meets you where you are at and helps you take a pause, unsubscribe, try something different, and problem solve in a holistic way focused on appreciating your gifts and normalizing your lived experience while creating a warm and empathetic environment for you to feel seen and heard.
**Credentials:** In 2023, Vanessa completed a Master's of Counselling at Yorkville University. She Is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (#22599) while awaiting her full RCC designation. She has almost 20 years of experience in therapeutic work including in inpatient psychiatry at BC Children’s Hospital for ten years with children, youth and their caregivers with mental health & behavioural challenges. She is also a mother of three children, and understands what it’s like to balance the needs of many including oneself.
**Availability:** Variable weekday daytime availability.
**Cost: I am taking private pay clients starting at $135/ hour.
