Depression therapists in Vancouver, BC
Browse Depression therapists in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Depression
Lisa Willow
Counsellor/Therapist, BSW, MSW, ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider
Depression often accompanies ADHD. A life time of experiencing struggles with self regulation, masking symptoms, feeling hopeless and without proper support can lead to depression. I use CBT and DBT to help support individuals reframe negative thoughts, while coaching encouraging behaviour change to facilitate motivation, in order to help you meet your goals.
16 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Ashley Kabugo
Counsellor/Therapist, Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)
Depression can affect your motivation and make daily life difficult. I can support you as you navigate the challenges that may come up on a daily basis.
2 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Ping Xu
Counsellor/Therapist, CCC, MC, MD
I provide support to individuals around depression
5 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Chris Graham
Psychologist, Registered Psychologist
Depression can rob you of joy and hold you back from living the fulfilling life that you deserve. I believe that the counselling relationship can help bring pleasure back to your life and offer a space to find meaning and find fulfilment in your life. We can work together to help you feel better! Book your free 20 minute meet & greet today to see if I might be the right fit for you.
7 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Aliya Amarshi
Registered Psychotherapist, PhD (Sociology)
Depression can feel like disconnection—from yourself, others, and life. Together, we gently explore the roots of your experience, honoring your inner world while integrating tools to support nervous system regulation, emotional resilience, and reconnection.
6 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Vanessa Fingland
Counsellor/Therapist, CCPCPR.cand, RPC-C
Depression can leave you feeling emotionally exhausted, numb, hopeless, or like you're simply going through the motions of daily life. Together, we'll explore the underlying causes of your depression, challenge unhelpful thought patterns, and develop practical strategies to help you reconnect with hope, meaning, and the activities that once brought you joy. Healing is possible, and my goal is to help you move beyond surviving so you can begin feeling like yourself again.
8 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Theodosia Daflos
Counsellor/Therapist, MA
While everyone feels down from time to time, the experience of clinical depression is something else entirely. Clinical depression can include many physical symptoms, like changes in energy, exhaustion, sleep problems, and body pains, as well as overwhelming negative thoughts that can make it difficult to think that you will ever feel better. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, we will slowly work on identifying these negative thoughts and slowly help you start doing the things that are important to you in your life, which breaks the cycle of depression.
15 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Yuka Oshimi
Counsellor/Therapist, MC, RCC, RCC-ACS (c), DCP(c), ADHD-CCSP
Depression can make even basic tasks feel heavy, isolating, or impossible to begin. I help clients explore what may be contributing to their depression, reconnect with their needs and values, and take manageable steps toward relief, meaning, and self-compassion.
5 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Dave Vass
Registered Psychotherapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor: RCC
Depression steals our vitality, and makes us feel like a passenger in our lives. Together we can explore what might be contributing to these longstanding mood-states, so that you can go about your life with more energy, engagement, and direction.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V5L 3X9
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Cayla Townes, Memento Psychotherapy & Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CCC
Depression is often more than just feeling down—it can be the weight of long-held beliefs, unprocessed grief, or the body’s way of shutting down in the face of overwhelming emotion or unmet needs. Rather than labeling depression as a disorder to be fixed, I work with clients to gently uncover the deeper emotional truths it may be holding. Using experiential therapies and memory reconsolidation, we explore the early patterns and experiences that shaped how you learned to survive. As we bring compassion and understanding to those places, many clients begin to feel more connected to themselves, more alive, and more able to access hope, energy, and joy—not by forcing positivity, but by healing what’s been holding them back.
15 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Bill Arbuckle
Therapist, MCP, RCC
It doesn't always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like going through the motions, feeling flat, always irritable, or wondering why nothing seems to land the way it used to. Depression has a way of making everything feel heavier and further away, including the idea that things could be different. I work with people to understand what's underneath it and find a way back to themselves.
12 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V5L 3Y4
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Adam Manz
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), MCP
Depression can make even the simplest parts of life feel heavy—leaving you tired, disconnected, or unsure how to move forward. I provide a steady, supportive space to understand the roots of your sadness, shift patterns that keep you stuck, and reconnect you with a sense of meaning and possibility. Together, we’ll work with both practical tools for relief and deeper insight that helps you feel more grounded, hopeful, and engaged in your life again.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 1P2
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Sophia Kopelow
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, RCC
Depression can be difficult to manage, and you don’t have to go through it alone. It affects everybody differently, and I’m committed to meeting you with understanding and compassion, so that together, we may find a glimmer of light in that dark place. I offer a way to make sense of your depression and explore its original function-namely, to foster growth, transformation, and healing you wouldn't otherwise have access to. Symptoms are messengers and by exploring with compassionate curiosity what our depressive symptoms may be telling us, we get to the roots of our symptoms and access supportive internal resources for change and transformation. This can be a part of a renewal and liberation from old patterns that are no longer serving us. I use a combination of cognitive and somatic approaches to help you reconnect to your innate vitality, purpose and meaning in life. I offer in-person, virtual or walk and talk therapy. I would love to hear from you—head to my website to book your free 20-minute consultation.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6C 1V5
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Shelley Klammer
Counsellor/Therapist, MTC, REACE, FOT, CHyp
Are you a high-functioning, self-reliant woman who cycles through periods of emotional pain that you keep hidden from others? Perfectly hidden depression is a term for appearing successful, cheerful, and emotionally stable on the outside while privately experiencing severe emotional pain. Coined by psychologist Dr. Margaret Rutherford, perfectly hidden depression hides behind anxious perfectionism that is trying to compensate for unhealed shame and a fear of emotional vulnerability. I specialize in working with women who have perfectionist tendencies and currently feel a disconnection from their authentic selves.
20 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Karen Baker
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CTP Dipl
Depression can be the quiet result of years spent putting others' needs ahead of your own, or believing your feelings didn't matter as much as someone else's. I work with clients to gently uncover these patterns, process what's underneath them, and reconnect with a fuller, more authentic sense of self.
7 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
Dena Marie Counselling & EMDR Therapy
Counsellor/Therapist, MEd, RCC
I support clients experiencing depression by using EMDR to gently process underlying experiences, patterns, or memories that may contribute to low mood, lack of motivation, or feelings of hopelessness. This approach helps reduce the emotional intensity of these experiences, allowing you to feel more grounded, energized, and able to engage with life in a balanced and meaningful way.
4 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Depression
GrewpTogether.ca
Pre-Licensed Professional, BPHE, MRE, MACP
Depression is an ache, a longing, and sometimes no desire at all. I’ve been there. I know how it can make life feel distant, heavy, or like something you’re simply moving through rather than living. Together, we can slow things down, listen to what’s underneath the heaviness. Often there are some big thoughts that have never been examined, some grief, some paths never taken - everything belongs.
1 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V5W 1X6
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Spencer Copland
Registered Psychotherapist, RCC, MCP
Depression can feel heavy, isolating, and hard to put into words. It might show up as a persistent low mood, lack of motivation, exhaustion, or a loss of interest in things that once felt meaningful. Even simple tasks can feel overwhelming, and many people find themselves feeling stuck, disconnected, or weighed down by self-criticism.
In our work together, we’ll move at a pace that feels manageable, creating a space where you don’t have to carry everything on your own. Rather than just trying to “push through,” we’ll explore the underlying experiences and patterns connected to your depression with curiosity and care. I take a holistic, trauma-informed, and attachment-focused approach, supporting both your emotional world and your nervous system.
I draw from approaches such as ACT, Adlerian Therapy, IFS, Mindfulness-Based CBT, and EMDR, tailoring our work to your unique needs and goals. Together, we’ll develop practical, compassionate strategies to help you navigate difficult moments while also making space for deeper healing and change.
I offer both in-person and virtual counselling sessions. You’re welcome to reach out or visit my website to book a free 20-minute phone consultation to learn more about my approach and see if we’re a good fit.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Nightingale Counselling
Counsellor/Therapist, RCC, MSW
Depression is one of the most prevalent and wide-ranging mental health experiences our therapists work with at Nightingale Counselling, spanning everything from mild feelings of sluggishness and disconnection to severe, life-disrupting episodes that affect every aspect of daily functioning. One of the most common questions our counsellors hear is "Is this depression?" and part of our work is helping clients gain clarity about what they are experiencing, because understanding the nature of depression is itself an important step toward healing. Our approach to depression counselling combines practical stabilization strategies to help clients regain day-to-day footing with deeper therapeutic exploration of the root causes and triggers, building lasting resilience rather than simply managing symptoms.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6H 3K2
Online in Vancouver, BC
Depression
Kylie Feller
Licensed Professional Counsellor, MA, CCC
Depression isn’t laziness or weakness—it’s a signal from parts of you that feel exhausted, hopeless, or unseen.
If you're feeling numb, unmotivated, or like you’re moving through life in a fog, I see you. Depression often arises when parts of us carry heavy emotional burdens or feel like they’ve been carrying the weight of the world for too long. Using Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic tools like TRE, I help you gently connect with these parts—not to fix or force change, but to understand, unburden, and heal. There is a way back to energy, purpose, and joy. You don’t have to do it alone.
10 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
Vancouver's extreme housing affordability crisis has become a defining mental health issue, with therapists frequently addressing financial stress, housing precarity, and the grief of displacement from a city many can no longer afford to stay in. The city's large Asian community — particularly its Chinese, Korean, Filipino, and South Asian populations — drives demand for culturally fluent therapists who can navigate family dynamics, immigration stress, and the intersection of cultural expectations with individual wellbeing. BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services provides institutional support, while Vancouver's large private therapy community is concentrated in Kitsilano, Mount Pleasant, Commercial Drive, and the West End. BC's expanded telehealth access makes it easier to connect with therapists across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley.
Depression therapists in Vancouver, BC Statistics
Depression therapists in Vancouver, BC average 11 years of experience and charge around $163 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (64%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (55%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (49%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$163
Accept insurance
68%
Offer sliding scale
52%
Gender ID
| 73% |
Female |
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| 23% |
Male |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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| 2% |
Non-Binary |
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Session Type
| 61% |
In Person and Online |
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| 39% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 64% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 55% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 49% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 45% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 43% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 42% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 42% | Somatic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 73% | Young Adult |
| 60% | Senior |
| 51% | Teen |
| 15% | Children |
Client Focus
| 63% | Women |
| 51% | Men |
| 44% | LGBTQ+ |
| 34% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 33% | Christian |