About Krista
We have an excellent team of counsellors and dietitian. Please inquire!
Krista knows importance of building relationships in the therapeutic setting and comes from a strengths- based, non-judgemental, compassionate, and open minded approach. She prides herself on providing solid assessments and evidence-based treatment and support.
Krista specializes in Eating Disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and avoidant restrictive food intake disorder. She has many years experience as a therapist, specializing mainly in CBT for all types of mood and anxiety disorders, including those triggered by trauma; DBT for problems with emotion regulation, social difficulties, problems with emotional pain; RO-DBT for issues with over-control, rigidity, difficulties with emotional expression, social loneliness, difficulties being flexible; and Emotion Focussed Family therapy (EFFT) for parenting support, becoming more aware of emotional needs and validating self and others.
Krista has been recently trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprogramming) for trauma and all types of mood and anxiety issues, and this training had a special focus on EMDR via video.
Krista also has experience working with LGBT2Q++ community, including gender identity issues.
Krista also has experience in clinical supervision and is available for consultations and support.
Specializing with children, adolescents and adults over telephone, Zoom or Skype.
Available weekdays, evenings and weekends.
Other Information
Areas of Practice
- Addictions
- Adult Counselling
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit | Hyperactivity
- Autism
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Child Counselling (6 to 10 yrs)
- Child Counselling (11 to 13 yrs)
- Children
- Communication Issues
- Crisis Intervention
- Depression
- Eating Disorders
- Eating Issues
- Family Counselling
- First Responder Counselling
- Gender Identity
- Individual Counselling (General)
- LGBTQ2
- Learning Disabilities
- Life Transitions
- Mood Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Panic
- Parenting
- Person-Centred
- Personal Growth
- Phobias
- Relationships
- Relationships - Couples
- Relationships - Marriage
- Relationships - Premarital
- Self-Harming Practices
- Self Esteem
- Shame and Chronic Shame
- Sleep Difficulties
- Stress
- Suicidal Ideation - Adult
- Suicidal Ideation - Teen | Tween | Child
- Suicide
- Teen | Adolescent Counselling (14 - 19 yrs)
- Transgender - Social / Physical Transition
- Trauma
- Trauma - Accidents Death Loss
Modalities
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Grief Counselling
- Meditation
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive-behavioural Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Online Counselling
- Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (RO-DBT)
- Solution Focused Brief
- Strength Based
- Telephone Counselling
Carmanah Counselling & Integrated Health
Locations
-
206-1651 Commercial Drive
Vancouver BC
V3L 3Y3Tel: 604-426-1185
Wheel Chair Access
Accepting new clients
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307-2540 Shaughnessy Street
Port Coquitlam BC
V3C 3W4Tel: 604-426-1185
Wheel Chair Access
Accepting new clients
Gender
- Woman
Language
- English