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Grounded Support for Healing and Growth

Virtual therapy for anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma led with experience, calm, and clarity.

Therapy That Meets You Where You Are

Healing Grounds Therapy offers confidential virtual therapy for adolescents and adults aged 13 and up across British Columbia. Sessions are designed for individuals who want steady support through anxiety, depression, stress, anger, addiction recovery, and trauma related challenges. This is a grounded, respectful space focused on real progress, not judgment.

Anxiety and Stress Support

Support for chronic worry, overwhelm, panic, and emotional burnout. Learn tools to regulate your nervous system and regain a sense of control in daily life.

Depression and Mood Challenges

Compassionate therapy for low mood, disconnection, lack of motivation, and emotional heaviness. Sessions focus on stability, insight, and sustainable coping strategies.

Trauma and Addiction Recovery

Individual therapy and trauma informed support for past experiences, substance use, and behavioral patterns that feel hard to break.

Focused Areas of Care

Each therapy path is approached with care, structure, and respect for your pace.

Trauma Recovery Program

A guided approach to processing trauma safely through structured sessions and optional trauma education courses.

Anger and Emotional Regulation

Support for individuals struggling with anger, emotional reactivity, or feeling out of control in high stress moments.

A Simple First Step Toward Feeling Better

Starting therapy does not require having all the answers. Virtual sessions make support accessible, private, and flexible. Whether this is your first time in therapy or you are returning after a break, the focus is on creating a steady and supportive experience from the start.

Addiction

“Addiction treatment—in all of its forms—is the work of liberation”

Scott Kellogg

I believe that pain is at the root of any addiction. Loss, injury, abuse, neglect; these are the reasons why we turn to substances or other behaviours—because they offer some degree of pain relief.
The Latin roots of the word "addiction" are associated with enslavement, and for many people, moving away from addiction is an act of liberation and a reinvention--of--self. But what and who are we once we've removed the shackles of addiction?
Shedding an identity, even when that identity has become a source of distress to you and others, can be scary. It means ending a relationship, often many relationships, and that leaves a void that needs filling.
I work to help people discover who you are, who you want to be, and how you want -to live your life. The process of self-discovery, or self-definition, can be uncomfortable. It can also be inspiring and ultimately liberating.

You don’t get over addiction by just stopping the use. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again.

Sadness/Depression

“Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.”

Dorothy Rowe, Psychologist and Author

This is an apt metaphor as it speaks to the complexity of this condition.
Along with the state of depression comes many experiences that inhibit one’s ability to escape the prison: fatigue, hopelessness, isolation, and substance use to name just a few. Drawing on Rowe’s observation above we sometimes take on that cruel jailer who viciously attacks ourselves with blame and anger.
There are various strategies that can be helpful to both escape the prison and reduce the cruelty of the jailer. Understanding why one is in this prison can be one path to freedom, but understanding alone is often insufficient. Action is often also required – Learning new skills of communication, practicing self-compassion, and enhancing physical health are all important parts of forging a skeleton key. Medications can play a part, but even when required, are often only the short-term solution which can be set aside in due time.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases
the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken – C.S. Lewis

Worry/Anxiety

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

Kahlil Gibran – a Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist, and philosopher.

Feeling worried or nervous is a normal part of everyday life. Everyone frets or feels anxious from time to time. Mild to moderate anxiety can help you focus your attention, energy, and motivation. If anxiety is severe, feelings of helplessness, confusion, and extreme worry that are out of proportion with the actual seriousness or likelihood of the feared event may occur. Overwhelming anxiety that interferes with daily life is not normal.
When we can clearly identify the cause of a source of distress like anxiety, when we can think of anxiety as "expectable" given the circumstances of a person's life, then we may not be talking about a so-called mental disorder, but rather a normal and, in many cases, appropriate response to threat, stress, and potential loss.
Psychotherapy is about contextualizing, and often validating, those responses, and collaboratively exploring ways to lessen their impact on your mood, relationships, and quality of life.

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths – C. H. Spurgeon

Start Therapy With Confidence

Healing Grounds Therapy offers secure virtual therapy for adolescents and adults aged 13 and up throughout British Columbia. Sessions are confidential, respectful, and focused on meaningful progress.