Marlae Vermeer
Senior Counsellor
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), Registered Social Worker (RSW)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Marlae Vermeer is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC #23248) and a Registered Social Worker (BCCSW #17149) with over 14 years of experience providing counselling and support to individuals and families. She is deeply committed to fostering relationships based on acceptance, safety, and trust, and she considers it a privilege to support clients on their paths toward growth, healing, and rejuvenation.
Marlae believes in creating a safe and empathetic environment where clients can explore the meaningful stories and experiences that shape their lives. Drawing from Narrative Therapy and Emotion-Focused Family Therapy, she encourages self-exploration and enhances relational dynamics.
Marlae is dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families restore balance, strengthen connections with themselves and others, and build resilience and emotional well-being. Her approach emphasizes reducing hardship, enhancing coping skills, and cultivating greater joy and self-compassion in the face of life’s challenges.
MARLAE SPECIALIZES IN: Supporting individuals with mental health concerns, addressing trauma, and working within family systems. She utilizes Narrative Therapy and focuses on couples’ and family relationship and communication issues.
Services
- Individual Counselling
- Couples/Relationship Counselling
- Co-Parenting/Parenting Counselling
- Family Counselling
- Walk & Talk/Outdoor Counselling (from our North Shore Office)
Ages Served
- Ages 19 +
Languages Offered
- English
Support Topics
- Abuse (childhood abuse, domestic abuse, sexual abuse)
- Adapting to lifestyle changes and aging
- Adoption
- Addressing loneliness and isolation
- Anger management
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Behaviour support services
- Body image issues
- Body positivity
- Chronic impulsivity
- Climate anxiety
- Co-dependency
- Colonization
- Coping skills
- Coping with health changes
- De-colonizing life and practice
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Dual diagnosis
- Emotional disturbances
- Emotional turmoil
- Exercise planning
- Facing end-of-life issues
- Family conflict
- Family of origin issues
- Gender identity
- Infidelity
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Life management issues
- Life transitions
- Marital discord
- Meditation
- Navigating family and caregiver relationships
- Non-ordinary experience integration (e.g., spiritual, extraordinary experiences)
- Overcoming phobias, such as fear of death
- Parenting children with special needs
- Parenting education
- Parenting issues (including child-rearing and education)
- Parent-teen mediation
- Peer relationships
- Rehabilitation from trauma
- Relationship and marriage conflict
- School issues
- Self-esteem issues
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual behaviours
- Sexuality (2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive)
- Spirituality (non-emergency spiritual issues)
- Suicidal ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
- Transgender transition issues
- 2SLGBTQIA+ challenges
Therapeutic Approaches
- Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS)
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Process-Oriented Approach
- Somatic Therapy