Couples & Relationship therapy can be helpful to address healthy relationship communication, conflict resolution, sustaining a relationship through life changes or long-distance (such as returning to school, or changes in career/job placement or location), adjusting to living together, adjustment to marriage, changes to members of the relationship, adjustment to open relationship, processing grief and loss, or as a means to proactively discuss relationship parameters before relationship decisions.
Working on activities or exercises that are discussed in session, between sessions, helps to enhance treatment outcomes and is essential in couples and relationship therapy. As with any form of therapy, the outcomes of couples or relationship therapy depend on the individual’s involved and their own positioning in the relationship, commitment, progress and process.
Couples and Relationship therapy can use a combination of evidence-based treatments from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and basic principles of Gottman’s Couples Therapy to help individuals, and members of relationships, understand their behaviors, underlying thoughts, clarify intentions, and focus on developing and enhancing effective relationship communication and healthy patterns of interaction.
Family therapy uses a combination of evidence-based treatments from Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and various Family Systems-related Therapies. Family therapy can help the family and individuals understand their behaviors, underlying thoughts, clarify intentions, and focuses on developing and enhancing effective communication and healthy patterns of interaction and support of one another. Family therapy can be helpful to identify and build on individual and family strengths.
Family therapy can be helpful to address healthy relationship communication, conflict resolution, support through life transitions, deciding to/not to have children, through fertility & assisted conception processes, adapting to moves/long-distance (such as returning to school, or changes in career/job placement or location), adjusting to different living situations, adjustment to changes in family structure, changes to members of the family, adjustment to adulthood and independence, processing grief and loss, decisions regarding multigenerational family living or separation and adjustments through either process, caregiving issues in families, changes to health status of family members, or as a means to proactively discuss important family decisions.
**Note that some Family Therapy providers at Wise Mind Centre may integrate additional evidence-based strategies and interventions, where appropriate, and if deemed helpful, will discuss this with you in therapy. Some Family Therapy providers at our centre work with Families with children and youth, while some providers focus solely on the family interactions and relationships among adult-children and adult parent interactions. All therapy providers at Wise Mind Centre offering Family Therapy have experience and can support Families who are diverse in age, gender, sexual orientation (LGBTQ++ communities), culture and sense of spirituality.
Working on activities or exercises that are discussed in session, between sessions, helps to enhance Family Therapy treatment outcomes and is essential to see progress in Family Therapy. As with any form of therapy, the outcomes depend on the individual’s involved and their own commitment, willingness to change, progress, and process.
Book a free 15-min phone consultation or an initial appointment (for a fee) to see if a therapist is a right fit for your needs.
In your initial sessions, your clinician would get info about your history and presenting problems, get to know what matters to you, and discuss with you your treatment goals and how to help you achieve your goals.
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Suite 300 – 3665 Kingsway, Vancouver
In-person & virtual available
Suite 1206 – 750 West Broadway, Vancouver
In-person & virtual available
Accessible, secure, and just as effective – therapy that fits your schedule and comfort level.
You may call our front desk at 604-630-3071, but the best way to make an appointment sooner (with the exception of DBT services) is to schedule a brief free phone consultation or to directly book your first appointment (for a fee) with one of our available clinicians.
We’ve created a Clinician Guide for you to screen our clinicians based on your preferences and presenting concerns. You may also book a brief Free Phone Consultation with an available clinician to discuss fit.
Please visit our DBT and group therapy page for information about our DBT service.
Please send an email to info@wisemindcentre.com if you have any questions about our fee schedule or talk to your individual clinician if you are an existing client.
Payment is due at the end of each session. We accept e-transfer, Visa or Mastercard. (We do not accept American Express card or Visa Debit). If you elect to pay by e-transfer, a credit card is required to be kept on file. If e-transfer payment for a session is not received within 48 hours of your appointment, the fee will be put through on your credit card.
Our services are not covered by MSP. However, many extended health benefits plans cover services offered by Psychologists and/or Registered Clinical Counselors up to an annual maximum. Some plans also cover services provided by a non-registered clinicians supervised by a registered psychologist. You will be provided a receipt for the service you receive so you can submit it to your benefits plan for reimbursement. Before scheduling your appointment, please contact your insurer to find out the terms and conditions of your plan and annual coverage. Our clinic does not offer direct billing. Insurance companies will not share with us details of your extended health plan for confidentiality reasons.
If a session starts late, it will end at the originally scheduled time with the same fee arrangement as for a full session.
A minimum of 48 hours is required to cancel an individual session without charge. If you need to cancel, please contact your individual therapist. If your therapist accepts online booking, you would be able to cancel and reschedule your session using our online booking system.
Please note that there is a no-cancellation policy for group sessions. This means that participants will be charged for missed sessions even with advance notice. However, individuals and families will not be charged for further sessions if they give 48 hours notice to withdraw from the group. Treatment is voluntary. Individuals and families could withdraw from treatment at anytime.
Our clinic is not an ICBC vendor. Our clinicians do not accept ICBC referrals.
Please understand that while we vouch to connect you with one of our clinicians, we cannot guarantee service provision. We also cannot guarantee goodness of fit between you and a clinician initially assigned to you. Some of our clinicians offer an initial, brief phone consultation (10-15 mins). Our clinicians provide services within their professional scope of practice. If your inquiry falls outside their area of expertise, we will make every effort to provide you with external resources. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
At Wise Mind Centre, we’re not just therapists – we’re compassionate guides committed to your growth and healing. Wherever you are in your journey, you don’t have to go it alone. Start today. Your well-being matters.
At Wise Mind Centre, we’re not just therapists – we’re compassionate guides committed to your growth and healing. Wherever you are in your journey, you don’t have to go it alone. Start today. Your well-being matters.
