Mike Wilson
Senior Counsellor
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)
Pronouns: he/him/his
Mike is deeply grateful to live and provide services on the traditional and unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. With extensive experience providing counselling support to a diverse range of women, men, and non-binary individuals from Indigenous, non-Indigenous, and immigrant communities, Mike works with individuals, couples, families, and adolescents facing various challenges. His areas of focus include relationship difficulties, conflict, parenting challenges, grief, depression, anxiety, and stress. Mike brings a compassionate and person-centered approach to his work.
Mike believes in a collaborative counselling process, where the counsellor and client work together in reflection, self-exploration, and discovery. He strives to create a safe and trusting space that fosters self-awareness and personal growth, supporting clients in building resilience and enhancing their overall well-being. Taking a holistic approach to self-discovery, Mike utilizes family systems therapy, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and outdoor therapy to facilitate insight, growth, and transformation for individuals, couples, and families.
Mike offers both in-office sessions and outdoor meetings, depending on clients’ preferences.
MIKE SPECIALIZES IN: Supporting men and boys, working with couples, and addressing family conflict.
Services
- Individual Counselling
- Child/Youth Counselling
- Couples/Relationship Counselling
- Co-Parenting/Parenting Counselling
- Family Counselling
- Walk & Talk/Outdoor Counselling (from our North Shore Office)
Ages Served
- Ages 12 +
Languages Offered
- English
Support Topics
- Abuse (childhood abuse, domestic abuse, sexual abuse)
- Adapting to lifestyle changes and aging
- Addressing loneliness and isolation
- Anger management
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Behaviour support services
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image issues
- Body positivity
- Borderline personality disorder
- Building resilience in later life
- Chronic illness management
- Chronic impulsivity
- Chronic pain management
- Climate anxiety
- Co-dependency
- Colonization
- Coping skills
- Coping with health changes
- De-colonizing life and practice
- Dementia diagnosis and support
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders / Maladaptive eating
- Emotional disturbances
- Emotional turmoil
- Facing end-of-life issues
- Family conflict
- Family of origin issues
- First responders’ mental health
- Gender identity
- Impulse control disorders
- Infidelity
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Life management issues
- Life transitions
- Marital discord
- Meditation
- Mood disorders
- Navigating family and caregiver relationships
- Non-ordinary experience integration (e.g., spiritual, extraordinary experiences)
- Obesity
- Overcoming phobias, such as fear of death
- Parenting education
- Parenting issues (including child-rearing and education)
- Parent-teen mediation
- Peer relationships
- Personality disorders (narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder)
- Rehabilitation from trauma
- Relationship and marriage conflict
- School issues
- Self-esteem issues
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual behaviours
- Sexualized violence
- Sexuality (2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive)
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Spirituality (non-emergency spiritual issues)
- Suicidal ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
- Youth Mental Health
- 2SLGBTQIA+ challenges
Therapeutic Approaches
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Nature Therapy