Roya Esbiri, RCC
Associate Counsellor
She/Her/Hers
Roya Esbiri is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and holds a Master of Arts in Personality Psychology. With over 20 years of professional experience in the counselling field, she began her career in Iran as a high school and university counsellor, creating safe spaces for youth and adolescents to navigate life’s pressures, build self-awareness, and develop emotional resilience. Her early work focused on helping young people manage stress, understand personal triggers, and foster self-discovery and identity development.
Since moving to Canada, Roya has continued her work in family service agency settings, supporting individuals, couples, and families—particularly within immigrant communities—to address their unique challenges and work toward emotional well-being. She offers a warm, compassionate, and person-centred approach, drawing on a variety of therapeutic modalities within a trauma-informed framework.
Her areas of focus include relationship challenges, conflict resolution, parenting, depression, anxiety, ADHD, domestic violence, emotional disturbances, grief, self-esteem, shame, and trauma. Roya is committed to building trust, honouring vulnerability, and celebrating authenticity, creating a collaborative counselling process where clients feel safe to explore, grow, and navigate life’s changes with confidence.
ROYA SPECIALIZES IN:
Supporting clients with depression, anxiety, emotional disturbances, grief, self-esteem, shame, and trauma.
Services
- Individual Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Individual Counselling (Virtual)
- Co-Parenting/Parenting Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Co-Parenting/Parenting Counselling (Virtual)
- Family Counselling (In-Person, North Vancouver)
- Family Counselling (Virtual)
- First Language Counselling
Ages Served
- Ages 12 +
Languages Offered
- English
- Farsi
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)
- Authentic Self-Discovery: Unmasking Who You Truly Are
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Bereavement
- Behaviour support services
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image issues
- Body positivity
- Borderline personality disorder
- Building resilience in later life
- Career guidance
- Child Mental Health
- Chronic illness management
- Climate anxiety
- Co-dependency
- Colonization
- Complex Trauma / C-PTSD
- Coping skills
- Coping with health changes
- De-colonizing life and practice
- Dementia diagnosis and support
- Depression
- Discovering Purpose and Meaning in Life
- Dissociative disorders
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emotional disturbances
- Emotional turmoil
- Exercise planning
- Facing end-of-life issues
- Family conflict
- Family dynamics
- Family of origin issues
- First responders’ mental health
- Gender identity
- Grief
- Impulse control disorders
- Infidelity
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Internet addiction
- Life management issues
- Life transitions
- Loss
- Marital discord
- Meal planning
- Meditation
- Mood disorders
- Navigating family and caregiver relationships
- Obesity
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- 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
- Personality disorders (narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder)
- Psychosis
- Rehabilitation from trauma
- Relationship and marriage conflict
- School issues
- Self-esteem issues
- Sleep issues or insomnia
- Sports performance
- Stress management
- Suicidal ideation
- Trauma and PTSD
- Transitioning into retirement
- Video game addiction
- Youth Mental Health
Therapeutic Approaches
- Attachment Theory
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
- Gottman Method
- Person-Centered Therapy (PCT)
- Psychodynamic Approach