Relational Psychotherapy therapists in Chilliwack, BC
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Simone Merkl Marriage Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, RTC
My mission is to inspire deeper appreciation, emotional connection, intimacy, and attraction in your relationship.
As a Relationship Attraction Specialist and couples counsellor, I help couples understand the deeper patterns that influence love, connection, and desire. Many couples still care deeply for each other but find themselves stuck in cycles of conflict, distance, misunderstanding, or emotional disconnection.
It is incredibly rewarding to witness couples heal old wounds, strengthen their attachment, and rediscover the partnership they once shared. I love seeing couples move from treating each other as adversaries to becoming collaborators who support, understand, and choose each other.
I believe meaningful change happens in a safe, empathetic, and authentic counselling environment. My approach combines evidence-based couples therapy with warmth, compassion, and even humour when appropriate, creating a space where couples can feel comfortable being honest, vulnerable, and real.
I help couples navigate challenges involving communication, emotional safety, trust, intimacy, attraction, and relationship patterns that may have developed over time. Together, we can create a pathway toward greater understanding, connection, and a relationship that feels alive again.
Is Fear Stealing Your Happily Ever After?
Over time, every couple faces a choice:
Fear or Faith.
Fear can create:
• Distance
• Protection
• Blame
• Control
• Resentment
Faith can create:
• Courage
• Vulnerability
• Responsibility
• Compassion
• Connection
Fear + Distance = Loss of Attraction
Faith + Connection = Restored Attraction
Discover where fear, ego, and old patterns may be blocking connection — and how emotional safety, surrender, and faith can help restore balance, intimacy, and desire.
Take your free Relationship Archetype Quiz:
https://www.mmarriage.ca/archetypes
I invite you to explore my website and learn more about how counselling can support your relationship. I appreciate hearing from you and offer a free 20-minute consultation to help you decide if we are the right fit.
6 Years Experience
In-Person Near Chilliwack, BC
Online in Chilliwack, BC
Relational
Kendra Anselmo Counselling
Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW
I believe that our struggles make sense in the context of what we've lived through. Whether you're feeling stuck in patterns of anxiety, people-pleasing, self-criticism, or painful relationships, therapy can be a place to slow down, understand yourself more deeply, and begin to heal at the root.
My approach is relational, compassionate, and trauma-informed, integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic therapy, mindfulness, and attachment-based perspectives. Rather than focusing only on symptom management, I work collaboratively with clients to explore the protective patterns that once helped them survive while creating space for lasting change.
I strive to create a therapeutic relationship where you feel genuinely seen, accepted, and supported. My hope is that therapy becomes a place where you can reconnect with yourself, develop greater self-compassion, and move toward a life that feels more grounded, authentic, and connected.
7 Years Experience
Online in Chilliwack, BC
Relational
Lexi Gayne Psychotherapy
Registered Psychotherapist, RP
My approach is direct, compassionate, and entirely human. I won't sit behind a clinical mask. Instead, we'll work collaboratively to untangle the anxiety, break the exhausting patterns, and get you back to feeling grounded. Therapy with me is a dynamic, safe, and conversational space to figure out what's keeping you stuck and to build the practical tools to move forward. You'll really get the feeling that I'm in it with you because I truly am invested in your growth and healing.
8 Years Experience
Online in Chilliwack, BC
Relational
Carlos "Charlie" Garcia
Registered Psychotherapist, RMHC, CCC, MSc, CCTP
Something feels off, and maybe you've been pushing through it for a while now. Anxiety that won't quiet down. A relationship that's started to feel more like work than connection. Questions about who you are, what you want, or what you actually need, that you haven't had space to sit with.
That's what therapy with me is for.
I work with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, identity, and sexuality, relationship challenges like communication challenges, trust issues, conflict, and repair, and intimacy and sexual concerns that often go unspoken. I'm not here to hand you a protocol. I'm here to help you understand what's actually happening for you and move through it in a way that fits your real life.
If you've been waiting for a space that's honest, real, affirming, and doesn't feel clinical or preachy, this is it.
2 Years Experience
Online in Chilliwack, BC (Online Only)
Relational
Karen Baker
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CTP Dipl
We humans are all a little mysterious to ourselves — carrying patterns, reactions, and feelings we don't fully understand, and often facing them alone. Anxiety, low mood, and chronic stress aren't random, they're signals. A nervous system that learned, early on, to stay alert, brace for impact, or manage more than it should have. Even when the original circumstances are long gone, the alarm can keep sounding: in our bodies, our reactions, our relationships; making us say yes when we wish we said no, or people-pleasing when we are already depleted.
What might feel like a flaw often reveals itself as an adaptation to the environment we grew up in — necessary at the time, still faithfully following a rulebook that no longer fits, never having had the chance to stand down.
There is no fixed route. Rather, I offer companionship: an experienced presence willing to go into uncertain territory with you, without rushing or minimizing what you're carrying. I've made this kind of journey before, and I won't leave your side when it gets uncertain. Although there is no map, the process tends to follow a general shape: building steadiness first, noticing patterns as they surface, processing what's been exiled at a sustainable pace, and eventually finding your way back to shore.
Healing tends to require working with the body and nervous system directly, not just talking things through.
Those painful or shameful parts don't need fixing, they need understanding and accepting. Over time, the experience of being heard, believed and attuned-to grooves an embodied sense of safety. The nervous system can more easily move out of survival mode allowing shorter recovery after stress, more patience in hard conversations, or restful, restorative sleep.
What once felt monstrous often reveals itself as misunderstood: a part of you that was only ever trying to protect you, or tell you something true.
A space where all of you is welcome.
Before training as a psychotherapist, I spent 13 years practicing as a chiropractor, which shaped my deep respect for the mind-body connection in healing.
I offer a free introductory call (30–50 minutes) to test the waters and see whether this approach is right for you — even if you're not sure yet what that is.
7 Years Experience
Online in Chilliwack, BC (Online Only)
Relational Psychotherapy therapists in Chilliwack, BC Statistics
Relational Psychotherapy therapists in Chilliwack, BC average 11 years of experience and charge around $166 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Anxiety or Fears (88%), Depression (88%), and Self Esteem (81%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$166
Accept insurance
67%
Offer sliding scale
59%
Gender ID
| 74% |
Female |
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| 15% |
Male |
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| 6% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 5% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 55% |
In Person and Online |
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| 45% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 88% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 88% | Depression |
| 81% | Self Esteem |
| 74% | Stress |
| 74% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 62% | Loss or Grief |
| 60% | Codependency |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 67% | Young Adult |
| 57% | Senior |
| 43% | Teen |
| 19% | Children |
Client Focus
| 67% | Women |
| 50% | LGBTQ+ |
| 48% | Men |
| 40% | Christian |
| 36% | Buddhist |