Sports Psychology Therapists in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

I blend evidence-based sports psychology with practical coaching to empower athletes and active people to make healthy lifestyle choices that enhance performance, resilience and wellbeing. Whether you’re managing pressure, recovering from injury, building consistent habits, or seeking greater motivation and balance, I provide compassionate, results-focused support that targets mindset, movement, nutrition and stress management. With bold, personalised strategies and actionable tools, I help you transform barriers into strengths, build confidence on and off the field, and create sustainable routines that fuel peak performance and long-term health.

When working with sports psychology, I like to start with some mindfulness around the issue to gain a deeper understanding of the experience, from here there are many options, and I rely of the client's wisdom to guide me.

Peak performance requires mental strength. I help athletes build focus, manage pressure, and overcome mental barriers to achieve their full potential in and out of competition.

My treatment approach follows the three phases of trauma treatment; resourcing, reprocessing, and reorienting. Together we will determine the resources you may need to tap into a grounded sense of self through somatic practices and parts work. Deep Brain Reorienting, EMDR, and ART guide reprocessing to shift past experiences into the past so you can reorient and engage fully in the present.

The key to sports psychology is maintaining the awareness and a healthy well being of one’s athletic abilities. This ought to include CBT, relaxation, talk therapy, on and off the sports activities. Validating, managing stress, helping them cope with challenges and maintaining positivity and self validation for their special and qualified skills.

Richmond, British Columbia is one of the most ethnically Chinese cities outside of Asia — with Chinese Canadians comprising a significant majority of the population and Mandarin and Cantonese widely spoken — creating a therapy community where demand for Chinese-language and culturally competent therapists far exceeds available supply. The city's proximity to Vancouver International Airport and its role as a gateway community for recent immigrants from Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan shapes a therapy landscape particularly attuned to immigration stress, cross-cultural family dynamics, and the identity challenges of first-generation residents. Richmond Hospital provides institutional mental health resources alongside a private therapy community that is increasingly building capacity in Chinese-language care. Help-seeking stigma in some East Asian communities remains a significant barrier, and many therapists in Richmond invest considerable clinical energy in normalizing therapy as part of their work.

Gender ID

	54%	Female
	46%	Male

Session Type

	58%	In Person and Online
	42%	Online Only

Top Treatment Approaches

75%	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
58%	Narrative Therapy
50%	Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
50%	Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
50%	Existential / Humanistic Therapy
50%	Gottman Method Couples Therapy
42%	Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Ages Served

100%	Adult
75%	Senior
67%	Young Adult
67%	Teen
33%	Children

Client Focus

33%	Men
25%	Christian
25%	Black / African American
25%	Women
17%	LGBTQ+

Sports Psychology therapists in Richmond, British Columbia BC, Canada CA

Jacqueline Limoges

Aaron Chin

Carl Malmsten

Caroline Lacelle

Dr. Claire Vines, Psy.D., Psychologist / Licensed /Psychotherapy / Psychoanalytic/