Stress therapists in Vancouver, BC
Browse Stress therapists in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
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Anna Vaisser Psychotherapy
Counsellor/Therapist, MD, MEd, RCC
Stress can build quietly or all at once, leaving your mind tense, your body on alert, and your capacity stretched thin. In therapy, I help you understand your stress responses through both a cognitive and somatic lens—how your nervous system reacts, how patterns form, and how they can be gently reshaped. Using mindfulness‑based practices, body‑focused therapies, parts work, CBT, and neuropsychological insight, we strengthen your ability to self‑regulate and create more internal space. My aim is to help you feel steadier, more grounded, and more able to meet challenges without becoming overwhelmed.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6K 2E4
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Fiona Matalon
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, RCC
Stress can be debilitating at times and could take us away from enjoying life. I invite you to reach out so I can support you in processing your stress through somatic practices as well as breathwork.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Yuka Oshimi
Counsellor/Therapist, MC, RCC, RCC-ACS (c), DCP(c), ADHD-CCSP
Stress can build up from work, school, relationships, caregiving, major life changes, or the ongoing pressure to keep everything together. I support adults in understanding what is contributing to their stress, reducing overwhelm, setting healthier boundaries, and developing realistic coping strategies that fit their life.
5 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Melinda Freitas
Counsellor/Therapist, MACP, RCC, CCS
Stress counselling provides a safe and relaxed environment to reflect on your life's challenges. When things feel overwhelming, it's good to work with someone who creates a supportive space to figure out what is draining you and how it is impacting your body. I use mindfulness and somatic tools, as well as addressing self-care and self-compassion in this work. I specialize in burnout prevention and strive to help my clients live more authentically and get out of "survival mode".
14 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6Z 2R4
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Rebekkah Stainton
Registered Psychotherapist, RCC
Your mind runs at high speed—analyzing, planning, preparing for every possible scenario. Sometimes that mental energy serves you well, but when chronic stress takes over, it can leave you feeling wired and tired at the same time.
In today’s world, stress is unavoidable. While stress itself is not inherently negative, it can become a problem when it gets out of control and even contribute to an overwhelming feeling of anxiety.
Whether you're dealing with ongoing burnout, sudden panic attacks, or that constant background hum of anxiety, we work with both your thinking brain and your nervous system to create real relief. This isn't about managing symptoms—it's about understanding why your system gets activated and developing tools that work with your body's natural responses.
You'll learn to recognize the early signals before stress overwhelms you and develop practical strategies that integrate both cognitive and somatic approaches to help you feel genuinely calm, not just temporarily distracted.
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6K 4N3
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Cayla Townes, Memento Psychotherapy & Counselling
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CCC
Chronic stress often isn't just about having too much on your plate—it's also about the invisible emotional burdens you're carrying underneath. Many people find themselves stuck in high-alert, people-pleasing, or perfectionistic modes without realizing these patterns were once essential for safety, connection, or approval. In our work together, we look beyond surface-level stress management techniques to understand what your stress is trying to protect you from. Through experiential therapy and memory reconsolidation, we gently access and update the emotional learning behind these patterns so that your nervous system can finally feel safe enough to let go. As a result, stress becomes something you can respond to with more flexibility, clarity, and resilience—not something that controls your every move.
15 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Clayre Sessoms
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CCC, ATR-BC
Chronic stress is frequently framed as an individual failure of time management, completely ignoring the systemic exhaustion born from navigating everyday oppression and institutional barriers. My online practice in BC rejects the capitalist pressure to just optimize your productivity; instead, we focus on deep nervous system awareness and decolonizing your relationship to rest. I will support you in slowing down to listen to your body’s signals, creating space to safely discharge accumulated tension.
8 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Spencer Copland
Registered Psychotherapist, RCC, MCP
Stress can build up over time or feel sudden and overwhelming, affecting both your mind and body. You might notice constant tension, irritability, racing thoughts, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, or feeling like you’re unable to fully relax. When stress becomes chronic, it can start to impact sleep, relationships, and your overall sense of wellbeing, leaving you feeling depleted or stuck in survival mode. This can eventually lead to burnout.
In our work together, we’ll explore what is contributing to your stress and how it is showing up in your nervous system and daily life. Rather than focusing only on managing symptoms, we’ll also look at the deeper patterns, pressures, and experiences that may be keeping your system activated. Using a trauma-informed and attachment-focused approach, we’ll support you in developing greater nervous system regulation, balance, and capacity to respond to stress.
I draw from approaches such as ACT, IFS, EMDR, Mindfulness-Based CBT, and somatic-based practices. Together, we’ll focus on practical tools for grounding and coping, while also supporting longer-term change in how you relate to pressure, rest, and self-care.
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 see if we’re a good fit.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 1T6
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Insomnia Help Canada
Therapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor
When stress is keeping you awake at night, it can fuel a vicious cycle: lack of sleep makes it hard to function and get on top of life's stressors. This, of course, leads to anxiety about sleep and worse insomnia. I love teaching people concrete strategies for managing the stress that often causes poor sleep.
25 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Sophia Kopelow
Counsellor/Therapist, MA, RCC
I recognize that stressors come in various forms, ranging from everyday challenges to more chronic stress and burnout. I use mindfulness and polyvagal informed techniques to help clients regulate their nervous system to feel more grounded and find balance in their life. Managing stress is not something you have to do alone and I would love to support you. If you're interested in learning more about me and my approach, please 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
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Transversality Counselling & Psychotherapy
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
Understanding our relationship with stress is one of the keys to developing preferred narratives in our lives. Getting to know how it influences you and those around you. Exploring what tricks and tools you have in standing up to stress a way to develop an alternative path.
16 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Christina Harrison | Vicara Wellness |
Counsellor/Therapist, Integrative Holistic Coach and Practitioner | Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner |
Stress isn't only something happening in your calendar—it can become something your whole system begins carrying. Over time, you may notice tension, exhaustion, irritability, difficulty settling, disrupted sleep, emotional overwhelm, or feeling disconnected from yourself. Together, we'll slow things down yourself. Together, we'll slow things down enough to understand what your system needs. Using somatic awareness, mindfulness, counselling, and holistic practices, I support clients in developing greater capacity to regulate stress, reconnect with themselves, and move through life with more ease, presence, and choice.
16 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Kylie Feller
Licensed Professional Counsellor, MA, CCC
Stress is a sign your system is working overtime—and it’s asking for support, not more pressure.
When life feels like too much and you’re constantly on edge, it’s often because parts of you are stuck in survival mode. Chronic stress can disconnect you from your body, drain your energy, and leave you feeling like you're just getting through the day. I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic tools like TRE to help you understand the deeper layers beneath your stress and bring your nervous system back into balance. Together, we’ll create space for calm, clarity, and resilience—so you can move through life with more ease and intention.
10 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Tanya Master | Online Somatic & Psychosomatic Consulting
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Trauma-Informed Somatic Practitioner | Integrative Coach
Chronic stress can affect every aspect of life, including physical health, sleep, relationships, concentration, and emotional well-being. My work focuses on helping clients recognise and interrupt the patterns that keep stress cycling through the nervous system.
5 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Adam Manz
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), MCP
When stress builds up, it can take a toll on your body, mood, and relationships—leaving you feeling scattered, tense, or on edge. Together, we’ll look at what’s driving your stress response and develop tools to help your mind and body return to balance. By understanding the patterns that keep you in overdrive and learning ways to regulate your nervous system, you can begin to feel calmer, more focused, and better equipped to handle life’s challenges.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 1P2
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Karen Baker
Registered Psychotherapist, RP, CTP Dipl
Chronic stress and burnout aren't always about what's happening now — sometimes it's a nervous system that learned early on to stay braced for the next demand or mood shift, leaving you feeling overwhelmed even when things look fine on the surface. I help clients recognize these long-standing patterns and build a genuine sense of safety and ease.
7 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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GrewpTogether.ca
Pre-Licensed Professional, BPHE, MRE, MACP
Stress is both good and bad. Positive stress is what hones our focus and determination. Negative stress is something to be soothed, something to understand and meet with curiosity. There are tools, I can give you those; there are different mindsets and I can give you those too; but most of all there is a decision to meet the anxious sides of you with compassion until these neural pathways begin to trust that the story they tell about the world isn't the only one worth listening to.
1 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V5W 1X6
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Dena Marie Counselling & EMDR Therapy
Counsellor/Therapist, MEd, RCC
I help clients manage stress by using EMDR to process the experiences, memories, or patterns that keep your mind and body in a heightened state of tension. This approach can help reduce overwhelm, improve emotional regulation, and support a greater sense of calm, balance, and resilience in your daily life.
4 Years Experience
Online in Vancouver, BC (Online Only)
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Barbara (Barchi) Fojkar
Counsellor/Therapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor, Clinical Hypnotherapist, CCC
Chronic stress can affect your mind, body, emotions, relationships, and ability to feel present in your own life. Together, we can understand what's keeping you overwhelmed, explore your nervous system's responses, and develop practical ways to create greater balance, resilience, and space for yourself.
3 Years Experience
In-Person in Vancouver, BC V6B 1E8
Online in Vancouver, BC
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Theodosia Daflos
Counsellor/Therapist, MA
We live in a particularly stressful moment in time, where many people are experiencing stress in multiple areas of their lives including, work, finances, family, and friendships. While stress is unavoidable, our reactions to our stressors can sometimes enhance the suffering we experience or the amount stress interferes in our lives. Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, we will work on identifying your stressors and see if there are ways to change or manage your stressors in line with what is important to you in your life. If the stressors can't be altered, we will work on building skills to help you manage your reaction to the stressors and decrease your suffering.
15 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.
Stress therapists in Vancouver, BC Statistics
Stress therapists in Vancouver, BC average 11 years of experience and charge around $161 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (66%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (50%), and Internal Family Systems (IFS) (47%).
Average years in practice
11 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$161
Accept insurance
66%
Offer sliding scale
56%
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
| 58% |
In Person and Online |
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| 42% |
Online Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 66% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 50% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 47% | Internal Family Systems (IFS) |
| 44% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 44% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
| 43% | Somatic Therapy |
| 40% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 73% | Young Adult |
| 55% | Senior |
| 48% | Teen |
| 16% | Children |
Client Focus
| 62% | Women |
| 49% | Men |
| 41% | LGBTQ+ |
| 33% | Persons with Disabilities |
| 31% | Christian |