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. Our team has lived experience within Evangelical, Christian Fundamentalist, Catholic, Muslim and Jewish Communities, and we support one another in finding parallels and understanding differences within and between these worlds. We are ever-growing in our understanding of how intersectionality contributes to a wide variety of experience that exists for two-spirit, lesbian, gay, queer, transgender, intersex and non-binary people within religious communities. This diversity of experience includes and is not limited to ethnic and cultural background, gender, class, age, sex, sexual orientation, nationality, race, religion, relationship status, physical or mental abilities, and socioeconomic status.
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.