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Island Clinical Counselling Port Alberni

At Island Clinical Counselling, we create a welcoming, non-judgmental space where you can feel seen, heard, and supported. Whether you’re facing overwhelming stress, navigating deep loss, or seeking personal growth, our compassionate team of experienced counsellors is here to walk alongside you. Together, we’ll explore your strengths, build resilience, and help you move forward with hope and clarity.

Our Port Alberni office is located inside Innov8 Physiotherapy Clinic at Unit A-4110 6th Avenue. Ground floor access, fully accessible for all levels of mobility. We also offer remote sessions to clients across BC.

Perienne Paulson

I work with men who are carrying more than they show, and who are tired of holding everything in just to get through the day. If you’re feeling burnt out, disconnected, overwhelmed by stress, or having trouble showing up in your relationships the way you want to, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to keep doing this silently.

My approach is straightforward, supportive, and focused on helping you understand what’s going on beneath the surface so you can get back to feeling like yourself again — not a different man, just a less overloaded one. In our work together, we slow things down enough for you to breathe, think clearly, and reconnect with the parts of you that have been in survival mode for too long.

I am part of the Kelowna Vitality Collective team and sessions with me can be booked via text at 855-425-4310‬.

Vitality Collective – Vancouver

Vitality Collective offers inclusive, trauma-informed counselling tailored for men navigating life’s challenges. With locations in Kelowna, Chilliwack, Surrey, Vancouver, and online across BC, our team of Registered Clinical Counsellors provides support for issues such as anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship stress, and life transitions.

Our “best-match” approach ensures clients are paired with therapists who align with their unique goals and experiences, fostering trust and meaningful progress. Whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or personal growth, Vitality Collective offers a safe, confidential space to move forward.

Contact us by email or phone, or use our text to book line at 855-425-4310‬.

Dr. Tyler Brown

I am a registered psychologist who specializes in helping men navigate major loss, trauma, and life transitions through adaptive and values-driven approaches. My practice focuses on fostering personal growth, emotional resilience, and meaningful adjustment in areas such as relationships, career, and health. I am committed to working collaboratively with you to develop tailored strategies that move your forward with more clarity and confidence.

Paul Brennan

I am a private practice psychologist focusing on depression, anxiety, anger and related mood issues. Overall, my approach is more on the structured side. I approach therapy as a set of moves that anybody can learn in order to help themselves work with thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Although history can be important, the main focus of my work is here and now, because that’s the only time when change can happen.

Vision Counselling & Consulting

We’re a team of qualified professionals who are genuinely committed to the mental health and healing of each, and every client we serve. We are dedicated to walking alongside you through each step of your journey to wellness. Our goal is to see you achieve your goals by providing you with highly effective evidence-based techniques and strategies. We want to see you thrive and live a full life. Life can be difficult, but we’re here to help you navigate life’s challenges and succeed in achieving the vision you have for your life. Our story began with a vision to build a practice offering high quality mental health support from therapists with a genuine commitment to ethical practice, continual learning, and the recovery of their clients.

Daniel Prince

Daniel Prince of Adaptive Mental Health specializes in working with men who want support with emotional regulation, processing and embodiment practices.

Our clients often feel like they can’t control their own actions, or that the brain is simply a witness to their body’s response. Conversely, we work equally with people who struggle to feel anything in their body, like positive emotions, or otherwise can’t get out of their own head and be present and in the moment.

AMH utilize Somatic Embodiment therapy techniques to help men gain control over their emotions, be better able to connect with themselves and their loved ones and more healthily move towards the goals and pursuits they want in life to feel more connected and fulfilled.

Mr Geoff Williams

I primarily work through a safe and effective therapeutic relationship. My approach blends safety with a change orientation. While I use EMDR and Somatic Experiencing, I draw most from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which incorporates mindfulness and CBT. Specializations include Relationship Break-up and Affair Recovery; Boundaries and Communication; Mental Health treatment for ADHD, depression, and anxiety; and Addictions.

Arno Lowi

I focus on what works using practical, cutting-edge techniques to help you understand yourself and acquire the skills you need to improve your life. I collaborate with you to achieve greater joy, fulfilment, effectiveness, clarity and stability in your life. You really don’t have to do it alone anymore. I use direct, practical language and cut through jargon to quickly clarify confusion. Sessions with me are always productive. I train you to do things differently, so that you achieve better results in life. My clients really get better.

Dominic Brennan

We all need an outlet outside of family, friends and work to open-up about issues that need clarification. We can collaborate on solutions, and come up with ideas. Counselling often helps in dealing with problems that are bringing us down, and we feel holding us back from progressing in life.
My approach is influenced by person-centered theory using techniques from Solution Focused Therapy. I do not focus a great deal on emotions or get stuck in the past. Instead, I work on current behaviors, and where you want to go from here by breaking down what is holding you back.

Well Health Counselling

Well Health Counselling offers professional, compassionate, and effective online and telephone counselling. Our fully certified professionals provide evidence-based assessment, consultation and treatment. Our diverse team of practitioners are highly trained and certified in various approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT). These therapies have been proven to be effective in treating a wide range of mental health conditions.

With over 50 years of collective experience, our team at Well Health Counselling knows that therapy is an important part of staying healthy.

Kristy Ricard

Accepting NEW Clients – Are you looking for support in navigating anxious thoughts or feelings, or what feels like a dark cloud following you around? Are you tired of feeling like you’re not enough? Is a new life change causing stress or needing exploring? Do you feel burdened by obsessive thinking, or difficulties with food and body image? Are there relationships in your life that you’d like to explore, or better understand how you feel when around others? Are you simply hoping to build self-awareness or coping strategies?

It’s normal if reaching out feels scary. I’ve worked with individuals in public, athletics, and private health settings, and i’m looking forward to connecting with you.

Juniper Counselling

Under the right conditions, we can find the courage to grow. We don’t just create a safe place, but also a brave place for you to tackle what life throws at you. You don’t have to do it alone.

Vanessa Luis

Although I am a warm and bubbly individual, I’m available to discuss the difficult things we face as human beings. I strive towards holding hope for those who feel they have lost it. My goal is to walk alongside my clients as they cultivate healing, meaning, and inner peace. I offer professional, confidential, LGBTQ+ affirmative psychotherapy services for individuals, couples, and families. Some clinical issues I can support include (but are not limited to): Depression, Anxiety, Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Relationship Issues, Self-Esteem, Identity, Grief, Life Transitions (e.g., divorce, parenthood, retirement), Pain and Chronic Illness, Interpersonal and Coping Skills

Mr. Grant M. Waldman

Due to my own inter-generational trauma, I have been supporting men’s wellness for over 20 years. I have also been supporting Indigenous clients for over 10 years. More recently, in my work as Wellness Counsellor & Facilitator at Round Lake Treatment Centre, I have been specifically supporting Indigenous clients who have experienced inter-generational trauma (cultural, sexual, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual abuses, neglect, abandonment, shame, and grief & loss). As a result, my clients present with addiction, anxiety, depression, isolation, self-harm/suicide ideation, anger, and other co-occurring disorders.