The Grounding Stone was birthed in response to the isolation that many folks have been feeling in the rapidly evolving landscape of Vancouver. As the cost of surviving and feelings of alone-ness are on the rise, The Grounding Stone strives to support both individuals and the community as they connect with and support one another.

Megan Jespersen is the Founding Director of The Grounding Stone. She is a protege of Christine Waymark, Co-Founder of Dragonstone Counselling in Kitsilano. With forty years between them, Christine and Megan share a special relationship as they both experienced trauma at the intersection of religion and queerness. Megan and Christine have combined their energies in supervision of intern counselors at Dragonstone Counselling, and they both specialize in supporting folks who are both experiencing and have survived oppression, discrimination, abuse, and trauma related to non-acceptance. Christine has been a significant force in shaping Megan’s therapeutic approach and in shifting the way that Megan is able to relate to ideas and challenges that may seem insurmountable. Megan describes this approach as one that seeks to move away from defining experiences, and rather, to find new ways of relating to experiences.

In the Summer of 2018, Megan moved her practice out of Kitsilano and opened a physical space for The Grounding Stone in East Vancouver.  A couple years later, the pandemic then provided The Grounding Stone Team with an unexpected opportunity to learn to let go of what they thought that they were offering, and to expand their offerings to the community in a whole new way.

This challenging opportunity resulted in TheGS team expanding across the province of British Columbia and evolving into a tight knit virtual community.  This shift has provided the team an ability to offer counselling services and community to many more people in our BC communities in a format that can be sustained and maintained for the long term.  Our team now operates within the unceded traditional territories of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Lheidli T’enneh, and the K’ómoks Peoples.