Downtown Vancouver Counselling
Whose life are you living?
The symptoms you try to fix are your mind and body telling you that something is not matched between who you are and how you are living.
Our mission is to remind you that you make sense, you are not broken, and that connection heals.
Canada's Authenticity Centre
It’s simple: We bend to be accepted—by family, school, career and society—until our nervous system finally says, “That’s enough.” It speaks to use through anxiety, depression, numbness and traumatic distress.
By reading this right now, you are learning to listen.
What If We Don't Listen?
Unfortunately this is what the modern world calls ‘normal’. We ignore the common sense of our deeper feelings as we wake up irritated, spend our day tired-but-wired and numb out with constant distraction while losing years of precious life on autopilot.
Enough is enough. Every human has a spark of purpose that craves to be known—playing its role in a world meant for more than this. At Thrive, we are completely over this low bar of ‘pushing through’ and living for some imagined better future.
Our team stays sharp, with modern therapies that you’ve heard about, like EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
We’ve leaned into specialties, ensuring folks are supported through counselling focused on individuals, couples, ADHD, autism, neurodiversity, addictions, queer-identity, sex-therapy and psychedelic integration.
We are proud to provide science-informed therapy in down-to-earth human language. You will never be judged. Only cared for exactly how you are.
(This is Serena’s dog Chester. His therapeutic relationships are also chill).
Check Out Our
Counselling Services
Counsellors
Get to know our counsellors and find one that resonates with you.
Individual Counselling
Take charge of your emotional well-being with one-on-one therapy sessions.
Couples Counselling
Deepen the safety and connection of your relationship with couples-focused therapy.
Low-Cost Counselling
Affordable therapy through supervised sessions with our interns.
EMDR Counselling
Our EMDR-trained therapists provide this effective and research-supported approach.
Psychedelic Integration
Learn more about psychedelics and how to integrate your trips.
Meet Thrive’s
Counsellors & Therapists
We are a diverse team whose goals is to make you feel seen, heard, and understood.
Our counsellors also support each other as a group, ensuring that you’re always guided by someone who is emotionally healthy and connected themselves.
Sara Bruno
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Sex Therapist
Colter Long
Registered Clinical Counsellor, M.Ed.
Cognitive-Behaviour Therapist
Estairia Hong
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
EMDR, EFCT Counsellor
Jessica Cumming
Canadian Certified Counsellor, M.A.
EMDR Trained Counsellor
Joel Myers
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
EMDR Trained Counsellor
Giulia Haedar
Registered Clinical Counsellor, MCP.
ACT Trained Counsellor
What our clients say about us
