OUR COUNSELLING SERVICES
The Grounding Stone is a queer-owned and run online counselling community that offers phone and video counselling throughout British Columbia. Our services include individual, relationship and group counselling. Our team 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.
LGBTQ2S+ Folks Counselling
The Grounding Stone was founded by mj, a queer-identified counsellor who trained under Christine Waymark, co-founder of Dragonstone Counselling, the first Lesbian-Owned Counselling Center in Vancouver.
Racial & Cultural Identity Counselling
Our counsellors come from different backgrounds and cultures with overlapping identities that inform our ability to better understand our clients with diverse lived experiences and racial and cultural identities. In varied ways, some of us have lost many layers of identity and who we used to be.
Non-Monogamy Counselling
Our counsellors understand that we were each born into an environment that had specific expectations around how we would engage with life, love, relationships, ourselves and others. When we do not fit with those expectations, we often experience distress, shame, judgement and feelings of disappointment.
Fetish, Kink & BDSM Counselling
Our counsellors understand that we were each born into an environment that had expectations around how we would engage with our curiosities, our fears, our desires, our selves, and others. When we initially experience interest in non-conventional sexual practices, interests and/or fantasies, we often experience distress, shame, judgement and feelings of disappointment.
Religious Trauma Counselling
Our counsellors support folks who have experienced trauma as a result of being connected to and/or raised in a religious community, high control environment and/or cult. Our therapists have both personal and professional experience in navigating the nuance of personal faith histories, spirituality, and oppressive experiences within certain communities.
Neurodiversity Counselling
The ways in which we see the world can give us unique perspectives, but they can also present unique challenges in our experience of the world. Our counsellors support folks who are neurodiverse and are going through major life changes like new relationships and changing responsibilities.
Parenting and Family Counselling
Our counsellors acknowledge and embrace all parenting relationships and family structures. Our therapists embody diverse experiences of pregnancy, parenting, and family, and are able to offer support, resources and creativity around non-normative experiences (this includes and is not limited to the experiences of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, queer, transgender, intersex, and non-binary folks).
Relationship Counselling
Our counsellors view every relationship that we experience in our lifetime as never having been done before, and therefore presenting particular strengths and struggles that may at times seem unpredictable.
Anxiety and Depression Counselling
Our experiences of anxiety and/or depression are both personal and collective, and often benefit from nuanced explorations of our worlds.
Trauma Counselling
Our counsellors work through a trauma-informed lens. We understand that the impacts of trauma reach far and deep, and that many aspects of our lives are often impacted by trauma.
Grief & Loss Counselling
Grief is any feeling that you may have that is associated with a loss of any kind. This loss may include a loss of a loved one, an animal, a job, an idea of what you thought your life was going to be, a part of your identity, a part of your body, or a person who was neglectful and/or abusive towards you.
ADD/ADHD Counselling
Our counsellors have personal and professional experience with ADD/ADHD, and we understand that each person’s experience of ADD/ADHD is different.
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.