Reading, and all kinds of self-guided education, can be an impactful complement to therapy. Therapy sessions tend to focus on specific solutions and interventions, designed to create change in alignment with personal challenges and goals.

Cost is one of the most common factors to hold people back from accessing counselling. It’s incredibly common for patients to know they have challenges or issues they’d like to work through, but feel that counselling or therapy is financially out of reach.

Dealing with anxiety can be stressful and challenging. But if you’re experiencing it, you aren’t alone. Anxiety is a very widespread, common experience; for many people, managing feelings of anxiety is a regular part of daily life.

Anxiety is nothing new. In fact, it’s a problem shared by thousands of people across Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, and the entire world. But right now, anxiety is more common than ever, in light of the ongoing crises our communities are facing together.

Even when we are deeply committed to showing up for our partners, children, and loved ones, there are always ways to keep working on and improving our relationships. But learning how to be better friends, spouses, or parents can feel like a big task when we’re caught up in life’s demands, stressors, and routines.

Accessible care, meaningful client outcomes, and continuous professional growth are core values of our practice at Shoreline Counselling. Our internship program addresses all three, bringing affordable therapy to our community, inspiration and development to our clinicians, and a high standard of care to the next generation of therapists.

We are looking forward to offering the option to return back to in-person counselling over the next few weeks. This transition is going to take time as we are working to implement the guidelines of the Provincial Health Authority and Worksafe BC in our shared space.

Many of us are all familiar with the idea of post-traumatic stress – it makes sense to us that when bad things happen, we will suffer the consequences in our bodies, feelings, minds or within our relationships with others.

These last few weeks have tested our resolve as individuals, families, communities and as a larger society. We have been asked to slow the busy and frantic paces of our lives, to find new ways of staying connected to each other and to forego much of what is comfortable and familiar for us day to day.