Nadia Don
MA, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
contact Nadia
(604) 900-7523
nadia@harbourcounselling.ca
APPROACH AND PHILOSOPHY
Life presents us with personal and professional challenges, negotiating relationships, striving towards goals, experiencing lack of motivation and direction, managing unexpected obstacles and emotions or simply undergoing transitions in life. Whether you’re looking to make changes or work through existing challenges, you don’t have to do it alone.
My goal is to create a respectful, non-judgmental and safe space to foster insight into your current life situations and promote meaningful change, increase self-worth and understanding for your personal growth and healing.
I offer an integrative and practical, person-centred approach to understand and support my clients. Therapies I draw from include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) where the focus is on helping clients gain insight into their ongoing life stressors and guide them toward different ways to approach these stressors, along with Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (T-CBT); Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), which is rooted in a deep belief in the healing power of families; Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), which aims to focus on maximizing the client’s ability to find their own solutions with the right amount of support and acceptance, empathy and understanding; Interpersonal Therapy (IPT), which focuses on helping clients navigate through relationships that may cause conflict in their lives, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), which allows focus on constructive and positive language and helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than placing focus on the problems.
If you are ready to start your therapeutic journey with me, please feel free to reach out to me via email or telephone. I will provide you with a free 20 minute phone consultatation.
BACKGROUND & EDUCATION
I am a registered member with British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC Member #21778).
I am a culturally competent licensed therapist who has been practicing since 2006, working with teenagers, adults and families for a Child and Youth Mental Health Team. I facilitate ongoing Anxiety and Depression workshops for teenagers several times throughout the year and I also facilitate workshops on anxiety to youth worker agencies, school administrators and other community partners. Additionally, I have worked at the former Vancouver Mental Patient’s Association (Vancouver 1998-2001).
Over the course of my Masters level education, I completed my internships (between 2002-2005) at the Maple Ridge Treatment Center, Matsqui Institution (Abbotsford) and Vancouver Association for Survivors of Torture. Part of my internship also included volunteering as an external Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Facilitator for the Greater Lower Mainland Firefighters’ Critical Incident Stress Management Association (2002-2005).
I hold a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from Trinity Western University (graduated 2006) and a Bachelors degree in Psychology with a minor in Sociology from Simon Fraser University (graduated 1997).
TOPICS OF CONTINUED CERTIFICATION, WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING I HAVE COMPLETED INCLUDE (MOST RECENT FIRST):
- Immigrant and Refugee Mental Health Certificate (2023)
- Motivational Interviewing Certificate Level I and II (2022)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (2018)
- San’yas: Indigenous Cultural Safety (2020)
- Building Bridges through Understanding the Village (2018)
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy Certificate (2018)
- Interpersonal Therapy Certificate (2016)
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Certificate (2014)
- DBT Foundation and Skills Workshop (2013)
- Play Therapy Level 1 Certificate (2008)
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Anxiety (CBT-A) Certificate (2007)
- Trauma Counseling Certificate (2004)
- Critical Incident Stress Debriefing Certificate (2002)
Rates
50-Minute Individual Counselling Session: 150.00
75-Minute Individual Counselling Session: 225.00
90-Minute Individual Counselling Session: 270.00
50-Minute Parent-Child Counselling Session: 180.00
75-Minute Parent-Child Counselling Session: 250.00
90-Minute Parent-Child Counselling Session: 285.00
*Rates are subject to GST
