Our experiences of anxiety and/or depression are both personal and collective, and often benefit from nuanced explorations of our worlds. There are many factors that influence our anxiety and depression including life stressors, support networks, family systems, identity, culture, and experiences around work, expectation, community, and connection. Our counsellors work through an intersectional lens, recognizing the impact of marginalization on people’s experiences of anxiety and depression. Our therapists acknowledge the impact of heterosexist and cisnormative systems on two-spirit, lesbian, gay, queer, intersex, transgender and non binary people. We acknowledge the collective and personal history of trauma in the postcolonial world, and the impacts of racist systems on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color’s experience’s of anxiety and depression.
We operate within the unceded traditional territory of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Lheidli T'enneh, and the K'ómoks Peoples.
While TheGS was birthed in East Vancouver, we now provide services to communities all across British Columbia and are able to support clients from all over the province including but not limited to: Vancouver, North Vancouver, New Westminster, Burnaby, Richmond, the Fraser Valley, Hope, Princeton, Sea to Sky, Pemberton, Whistler, Squamish, the Gulf Islands, the Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, the Okanagan, the Kootenays, the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Yellowhead, up the Alaska Highway, the Stewart-Cassiar, and Haida Gwaii.