About April
Hi! I’m April the founder of Emotion Wise Counselling. I started Emotion Wise to support those who have experienced more than their fair share of adversity in life. Those we work with us may have been adopted, in foster care, experienced abuse, rejection, or lack of nurturing by their family. Others come with experiences of bullying, racism, abusive relationships and/or spiritual abuse. We work on self-understanding, increasing feelings of safety, emotional health, and healing past trauma.
I offer trauma therapy (EMDR/AEDP) that can heal the deeper longstanding cycles of shame and self-blame rooted in past negative life experiences. I work on building on your strengths to equip you with skills (DBT/CBT) and internal resources to handle the storms of life. I offer a warm and relational approach that can also can be directive and goal-focussed.
No matter how difficult life feels right now, there is hope! I welcome the opportunity to explore how I can help you move from surviving to thriving. It is my hope that in working together you will experience transformation and growth.
Other Information
Areas of Practice
- Abuse - Physical Emotional Sexual
- Addictions
- Adult Counselling
- Adults
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit | Hyperactivity
- Autism
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Career & Education
- Chronic Illness
- Codependency
- Communication Issues
- Crisis Intervention
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Domestic Violence
- Family of Origin
- Goal-Setting
- Grief and Loss
- Grief and Loss - Peri / Postnatal
- Grief and Loss - Suicide
- Indigenous | First Nations
- Individual Counselling (General)
- Infertility | Reproductive Support
- Learning Disabilities
- Life Transitions
- Men's Concerns
- Men's Violence
- Mood Disorders
- Panic
- Peri/Post Natal Concerns
- Persistent Unresolved Long-term Issues
- Person-Centred
- Personal Growth
- Phobias
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Relationships
- Self-Harming Practices
- Self Esteem
- Sexual Assault
- Shame and Chronic Shame
- Sleep Difficulties
- Spiritual
- Stress
- Substance Use Counselling
- Suicidal Ideation - Adult
- Suicide
- Trauma
- Trauma - Accidents Death Loss
- Traumatic Birth
- Women's Concerns
- Workplace Concerns
Modalities
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Adlerian Therapy
- Brief Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Emotion-Focused Therapy
- Existential
- Experiential
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Feminist
- Focusing Oriented Therapy (FOT)
- Grief Counselling
- Group Therapy
- Humanistic
- Integrative
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Online Counselling
- Person-Centred
- Solution Focused Brief
- Somatic
- Strength Based
- Telephone Counselling
Emotion Wise Counselling
Locations
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#513-119 West Pender St
Vancouver BC
V6A 1M1Tel: 236-412-2539
Wheel Chair Access
Accepting new clients
Gender
- Woman
Language
- English
