Building Resilience
for a Better Life

Grow

Balance

Connect

At Pacific Waters Counselling, we help adults and youth confidently move forward with their lives. Through effective, research-based counselling, our Masters-level counsellors assist our clients in creating meaningful, lasting change.

Whether your struggle is with anxiety, depression, trauma, or chronic pain, you have come to the right place. We can help you move forward. Life can be better than this!

Life can leave us lost, stuck, and alone.

Our habits no longer serve us. Our thoughts fill our minds but leave us empty. We can do this differently. We can do this together. It is time to be you. It is time to live.

Ready to take the next step?

Pacific Waters Counselling is here to guide and facilitate growth, acceptance, and understanding.

It’s time things got easier.

"I can be changed by what happens to me,
but I refuse to be reduced by it."

— Maya Angelou

Once we have taken the time to agree that we even have a feeling and then a brief time to really feel it, the action that we want to take next often changes. Feelings are always valid and always deserve to be heard. That is not the same as saying tha
It drives me nuts that our cultural messages make it sound like we are supposed to be capable of doing life on our own. That's actually a sick idea. We are not designed to be alone. We are mammals, designed for a group. Let yourself connect. Be true
I'm so sorry to tell you the truth. We need self-doubt. It is a healthy part of our whole self. While it might be out of balance sometimes, and it might be uncomfortable, we certainly never want to get rid of it. It's here to help you.
It's time to switch things around. It's time to start valuing emotions and stop elevating rational thought onto such a pedestal. Yes, logic and rationality are important, but they are not MORE important than our emotions.