About Gretal
Now accepting new clients.
It is a great joy to assist you in exploring, understanding and resolving issues of discomfort or concern in your life. If you are grasping with choices or wanting to explore your path ahead, I cater to your readiness for change. With compassion and curiosity, I support your personal agency in accessing and promoting inner gifts and strengths.
For over 15 years, I have worked with many individuals of diverse populations and backgrounds who are seeking to make life better. This has been especially important throughout recent challenges of a global pandemic. It is sometimes in the aftermath of such a crisis that we discover just how much there is to process! I enjoy the opportunity to nurture connections to self, spirit and energies of the natural home we are all inhabiting.
I carry extensive experience in settings of private and public mental health domains, such as: Vancouver Coastal Health, UBC, Child & Youth Mental Health and have worked with people of all ages in my personal private practice.
I am trained in various therapeutic modalities including: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Single Session Therapy (SST) as well as strength based, trauma informed and solution focused therapies. I am also a certified Reiki practitioner.
It is an honour and a privilege to live and work in the traditional territory of the Puntledge, E’iksan and K’omoks First Nations. These are beautiful lands, enriched by all the two legged, four legged, winged and sea inhabiting creatures and abundant natural flora all around. I often enjoy connecting to spirit by walking the land with my family and our beloved dog, Cedar.
I offer convenient online or telephone counselling appointments for clients anywhere in BC. Contact me today so we can arrange a complimentary 15 minute consultation to determine if our work together would be helpful and healing for you.
778-883-8527
My individual counselling fee is $140 per 50 minutes plus GST (consistent with the recommendations of the BCACC).
Please note: a receipt will be provided that many are able to claim through benefit plans.
I look forward to connecting with you.
Other Information
Areas of Practice
- Addictions
- Adults
- Anger
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit | Hyperactivity
- Career & Education
- Codependency
- Communication Issues
- Depression
- Family Counselling
- Gambling
- Gender Identity
- Goal-Setting
- Grief and Loss
- Grief and Loss - Peri / Postnatal
- Grief and Loss - Pets
- Grief and Loss - Suicide
- Indigenous | First Nations
- Individual Counselling (General)
- Life Coaching
- Life Transitions
- Menopause
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic
- Parenting
- Parenting - Blended Families
- Peri/Post Natal Concerns
- Personal Growth
- Post Traumatic Stress
- Relationships
- Relationships - Couples
- Relationships - Dissolution | Separation | Divorce
- Relationships - Marriage
- Relationships - Premarital
- Self Esteem
- Sleep Difficulties
- Spiritual
- Stress
- Substance Use Counselling
- Teen | Adolescent Counselling (14 - 19 yrs)
- Women's Concerns
- Workplace Concerns
Modalities
- Attachment-based Therapy
- Bowen Family Systems
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Collaborative Couple Therapy
- Culturally Sensitive
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method Couples Therapy
- Grief Counselling
- Group Therapy
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Person-Centred
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
- Solution Focused Brief
- Strength Based
