Individual Counselling
Everyone goes through challenges and needs someone to check in with. Additionally, many people require support overcoming past traumas and mental health concerns. Connecting with us for individual counselling can help you to obtain the necessary support, tools, and a listening ear to help you successfully work through your concerns.
Experiencing traumatic events can have a negative impact on your every day life. At Virtual Connect we have multiple counsellors who specialize in trauma counselling from the comfort of your home.
EMDR therapy- is a therapeutic intervention that helps individuals process traumatic events. By process traumatic memories with the brain's natural ability to reprocess distressing experiences.
Somatic therapy- helps process trauma by increasing awareness of the body's physical sensations, allowing stored stress and survival responses to be safely recognized, regulated, and gradually released how trauma is showing up in the body.
Psychoanalytical therapy- supports trauma recovery by exploring how past experiences and unconscious patterns continue to influence thoughts, emotions, relationships, and behaviours. Then through this awareness helping clients develop greater insight and lasting emotional healing.
Trauma Counselling
Anxiety Counselling
Anxiety can show up and impact our thought patterns and our daily life. Counselling can support you get to the root of what is causing the anxiety. As well as working on developing various tools to help you through anxious feelings, and move towards not allowing anxiety to be the driver in your life.
When you are struggling with depression, even small tasks can start to feel overwhelming. Starting small to address healthy habits and coping mechanisms back into your life can help to address the negative impact depression can have. Additionally, if there is a root cause of depression, this can be something that is addressed through the counselling process.
Depression Counselling
Life Transitions Counselling
While change and starting new can be scary, it also opens a whole new realm of possibilities. Whether you are in a job transition, moving, starting or ending a relationship. We are here to support you through the unknowns the come with life transitions. If you are at a cross roads debating a decision, counselling can offer a helpful place to come and connect and work through this decision.
- Mental health counselling
- Trauma counselling
- Addictions counselling
- Coping skills
- Generalized support for life's cross roads
- Client centered counselling approaches
How we can help.
All clinicians are registered with a psychotherapy body in either a provincial or Federal level. Registration bodies- CCPA, CRPO, BCACC, ACTA, CCTNB, NSCCT, CCTPEI, and QCA
o Registered with FNHA (First Nations Health Authority) in British Columbia
oRegistered with CVAP (Crime Victim Assistance Program in British Columbia)
o Registered with Victim Quick Response Program (VQRP in Ontario)
o Medavie Blue Cross
o Sliding scale option available
Direct Billing
Yes, it is possible to engage in almost all forms of counselling virtually and have an effective outcome from the counselling service.
Is counselling as effective when it is done virtually?
Yes, not every clinician is going to be a perfect fit, and as such, it is possible to switch clinicians. Please feel free to reach out in the Contact Us section, or by sending an email to info@virtualconnect.ca
What if I do not connect with my counsellor, is it an option to switch counsellors?
You will be asked to share where you reside/what province you have benefits in, then you will be connected with a clinician who is registered to work in that province to ensure that benefits will cover the counselling.
Will my benefits cover the cost of counselling?
All counsellors at Virtual Connect are registered with their regulatory provincial body, hold a master's degree, and abide by an ethical and research informed standard of practice.
What credentials do Virtual Connect's counsellors hold?
