Creative Spirit Therapy by Kari Gundersen (She/Her)
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, RYT, RTC
Create a nice day!
Client Focus
Session Format: Individual sessions.
Age Specialty: Adult, Young Adult
Languages: English
Treatment Approach
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Family Systems
- Feminist
- Hypnotherapy
- Narrative
- Person-Centered
- Psychoanalytic
- Relational Psychotherapy
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- Transpersonal
Approach Description: I help people create the lives they want, and a world they can live in.
Education & Credentials
Creative Spirit Therapy by Kari Gundersen BA, RYT, RTC
- Female
- License # 2701
- Licensed in British Columbia
- Practicing Since 2020
Education: I did a 3-year post baccalaureate diploma at Clearmind Institute in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology and a year long study under the tutelage of Dr. Gabor Mate in Healing Trauma and Addiction. I also trained as a yoga therapist at the Vancouver School of Healing Arts.
Finances
Fees
- Average Session Fee 140
- Affordable sliding scale therapy: apply if you may be eligible.
- Discounts for students and people without extended health benefits.
- Accepts Insurance
- I offer direct billing to most major insurance companies. You can also pay by cash, credit, or e-transfer.
Creative Spirit Therapy by Kari Gundersen Practice Details
Therapy Sessions
- Available In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 0A3 and Vancouver, BC V5K 1Z5
- Available Online for residents of British Columbia
- Online Therapy Details: Jane Software
When I was in therapy school, I had a session with a mentor who asked about my plans for after graduation. I told her that I had no plans to practice; my school had a well known 1st year program that most people only took for personal growth but didn't continue the 3 year practitioner training. When she asked why I wouldn't go through with it, I told her that my life had been such a chaotic, sputtering mess at times that I felt nobody would ever come to me for help. Who would want their life to turn out like mine? And she said "Kari, in order to create an antidote for anything, you need a drop of the poison. Turn and look behind you at the vast library of healing potions you have the power to create. Those are your natural resources that no one can ever take away from you. They can't teach you that in school, but those experiences only add to, not detract from, your ability to empathize with other people." And that's the moment I realized I would become a therapist.