Christina Vasak Counselling - MEd, RCC
Remote Clinical Counselling Across BC
Christina will be accepting new clients beginning September 2025.
Sessions for the Fall may be booked online now!
At the heart of my counselling philosophy is the belief that reconnecting to our true selves is a beautiful and transformative journey. It is a dynamic process that involves a delicate balance of discovery, understanding, courage, and acceptance. With compassionate guidance and support, I hold space for clients from all backgrounds to enhance their self-awareness, experience and move through challenging emotions, and gain clarity on how to take steps towards personal growth and change. I welcome the opportunity to work with you.
About Christina
Christina is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. She is also a BC certified teacher, and obtained her Masters of Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Her professional background prior to teaching and counselling was rooted in managerial roles in private and non-profit organizations where she thoroughly enjoyed the challenge of streamlining systems and processes, and creating and mentoring cohesive teams.
As a counsellor and during her time teaching, she has worked with children, youth, and adults from various cultural and religious backgrounds, as well as with individuals with special needs, parents, and families who have experienced domestic violence. In her current practice, Christina’s focus is working with adults, supporting them with life transitions, personal growth and self-development, leadership, career, boundary-setting, creativity blocks, anxiety, and stress management. Her practice is trauma-informed, strengths-based, and grounded in Person-Centered Humanistic and Existential Therapy, where she works with a belief that the client is the expert in their own life. She draws from a variety of approaches to help clients achieve their goals including Mindfulness, Compassion Focused Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
Outside of work, Christina enjoys finding creative outlets, doing yoga, spending time in the outdoors, and playing with her children.
Certifications:
Registered Clinical Counsellor #19906, BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
Masters of Education, Counselling Psychology - University of British Columbia
Bachelors of Education, Certified BC Teacher - University of British Columbia
Bachelors of Arts - University of British Columbia
Select Professional Development and Accreditation:
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and Trauma: Level 1 Training - PESI Canada
Emotional and Disordered Eating: Trauma-Informed Clinical Tools to Heal Your Clients’ Relationship with Food and Body - PESI Canada
First Nations Approaches to Healing Trauma: Ancestral Wisdom and Soul Retrieval - PESI Canada
San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training - Provincial Health Services Authority Indigenous Health Program, British Columbia
500 Hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training - Divine Light Yoga, North Vancouver
Motivational Interviewing, Level 2 - Association for Psychological Therapies
Sandplay Therapy, Level 1 - Justice Institute of BC
*Consultations will only be made available when I am able to take on new clients. I appreciate your understanding.
With humility and respect, I acknowledge that I live, work and play on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. I am committed to ongoing learning and working toward reconciliation.