Counselling
A New Westminster group practice covering trauma, reproductive mental health and eating disorders, with in-person and virtual sessions available.
Intrusive memories that surface without warning, a pregnancy that ended in loss, an eating disorder that has outlasted several attempts to manage it alone: these are among the problems this New Westminster practice takes on. It describes itself as a multi-disciplinary mental health practice, and its clinical roster brings together registered clinical counsellors, registered social workers, a registered psychologist and a registered dietitian. Kelly Adler holds an MC, practises as a registered clinical counsellor, and is certified in Lifespan Integration and Emotion Focused Family Therapy.
Seven areas of work are set out: trauma, PTSD and childhood attachment; reproductive mental health; eating disorders; nutritional counselling; parenting concerns; emotional regulation; and life transitions. The practice's trauma and PTSD support names developmental trauma and attachment wounds, complex trauma from long-term or repeated stress, trauma following crime, accidents or medical experiences, intrusive thoughts, and grief entangled with trauma. Lifespan Integration is described as a way of helping the brain process and integrate memories, and the team also draws on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, family therapy and couples therapy.
Around reproductive mental health counselling, the ground covered runs from the emotional toll of infertility and fertility treatment through anxiety or low mood during pregnancy, pregnancy loss and the grief that comes with it, postpartum mood changes and adjustment, and the identity shifts and relationship changes that follow. Perinatal nutrition and meal planning fall to the registered dietitian. Emotional regulation sessions are offered to adults, parents and couples contending with overwhelm, anxiety, hypervigilance, anger and difficulty in relationships.
There is no direct billing to insurers at present. Instead the practice issues detailed receipts you can submit to an extended health provider, and coverage varies by plan. Anyone working through the Crime Victim Assistance Program will find a CVAP-approved counsellor on the team, and the practice states that it can help with that process.
Sessions usually run an hour and can be held in person or online, whichever suits you. New Westminster, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody and Port Coquitlam are the communities named on the site, with in-person appointments at the Columbia St office and virtual appointments extending beyond those five. Street parking and a handful of lots sit close by, and a SkyTrain station is within walking distance. Online booking is reserved for returning clients and for anyone the practice has given an account, so a first approach starts with the new client request form.
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