We are a team of professional counsellors and student (intern) counsellors, serving the East Van community and residents of BC. At Ciel we are dedicated to providing accessible, affordable, collaborative counselling services.

All counselling sessions are delivered by Masters of Counselling Psychology interns who regularly participate in collaborative supervision with Ciel’s professional counsellors. We acknowledge that we practice on occupied, unceded Coast Salish lands.

Ciel’s counsellors provide low-cost individual counselling at a fee of $45 per session. Relationship and couples counselling is offered at a fee of $70 per session. We provide both in-person and secure video-chat sessions.

We are allies. Our approach sees your strength first and views your mastery as inherent. We work with multicultural, feminist, queer-positive, anti-oppression, decolonising, social justice-based perspectives. At Ciel Community Counselling we welcome all folks.

Individual Counselling

Individual counselling provides support, encouragement, and guidance during challenging times. As part of the counselling process, you may experience healing, gain new perspectives, and eventually deal in new ways with personal topics.

Anxiety, depression, anger, substance abuse, relationship challenges, family and parenting problems, school difficulties, career changes, body image issues, disordered eating, identity, sexuality, and self-esteem are all areas of interest in the counselling space... and the list goes on. Whatever you bring in, we can work with.

In individual counselling you will work one-to-one with your counsellor in a caring and confidential environment. The counsellor will gently promote exploration of your feelings, beliefs, and behaviour. You may work through pain from the past, metabolize hurt, heal trauma, and identify aspects of your life that you would like to change. You might gain insight about yourself and others, and about circumstantial, systemic, and intersectional aspects influencing your experience. You may create life goals, and work toward them. Most of all, you will experience having an ally who believes in your abilities and strengths.

couples/relationship Counselling 

Couples counselling facilitates new approaches to relationship problems. While the people involved may have previously made sincere efforts to resolve the issues between them, enlisting a professional counsellor can aid in creating an environment in which breakthroughs may happen.

In the couples counselling process the 'push-pull' dynamic of the conflicted relationship is put on hold. The counsellor and clients collaborate to create a space in which each of the partners may express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in constructive ways.

The aim in relationship counselling is to help the partners gain a better understanding of themselves and of each other. In the consultation process the partners may decide whether they want to make changes in the relationship, and if so, the counsellor will support them in implementing steps to do so.

*At Ciel we welcome folks with diverse relationship styles and preferences, whether monogamous, open, polyamorous, or any other arrangement. Our approach is inclusive of all & LGBTQ2S+ positive.