If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines answer now:
Crisis numbers in Canada
- 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline, call or text, at any hour: Tel: 9-8-8 | Text: 9-8-8
- Kids Help Phone, for children and young adults: Tel: 1-800-668-6868 | Text: CONNECT to 686868
- Hope for Wellness Help Line, for Indigenous people: Tel: 1-855-242-3310
- National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: Tel: 1-866-925-4419
- All crisis lines in Canada
This page lists Female Addiction Counsellors in Vancouver. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 5 counsellors listed in Vancouver.
These are practitioners who identify as female on their profile 1. We ask every therapist that question, and they may decline to answer. We do not check the answer, and nothing here is ranked.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
A client and a practitioner always differ; what matters is what that means to you and how you work with it 2. You can filter the same list by the languages a practitioner works in.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Vancouver for addiction offer talking sessions of about an hour 3. Counselling usually runs weekly, for a set number of sessions.
Assessment, diagnosis and medicine sit outside counselling; ask who provides them where you are. Open the profiles below to compare experience, language, fee, and whether they work online. Ask how soon each one can see you.
What a counsellor does, and how counselling differs from psychotherapy
Everyone on this page describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems 3.
The training emphasises the conversation itself. Sessions usually stay close to something happening now: a loss, a relationship, work, a decision. That focus is what most often separates counselling from longer psychotherapy.
A counsellor is not a medical doctor and does not prescribe or diagnose. Ask a counsellor what they work with, and for how long.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Addiction and the professional title counsellor.
The Vancouver page answers more questions about therapy there.
Who registers therapists in Canada?
In Canada there is no national register: each province and territory licenses under its own law. See the Canada page.
Nearby places and related listings
- Addiction Counsellors in Vancouver
- Female Anxiety Counsellors in Vancouver
- Female Couples Counsellors in Vancouver
- Female Depression Counsellors in Vancouver
- Female Grief Counsellors in Vancouver
- Female Trauma Counsellors in Vancouver
- Asian Counsellors in Vancouver, one filter on the full Vancouver counsellors list
- Male Counsellors in Vancouver, one filter on the full Vancouver counsellors list
- Vancouver: all therapists listed (43)
- Couples therapy, Vancouver
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
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TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)