About Craig Wanless

Craig Wanless, MTC, RCS

(he/him) Clinical Director, Counsellor & Founder

Craig is a North Vancouver-based counsellor serving clients in the lower Mainland and remotely online.
[Update! Craig will be opening in-person availability in May 2024 to new Edmonton, AB clients as he transitions to Alberta. As always, Craig is also available remotely online. Please reach out for more details.]

✓ Over 15-years experience
✓ Master Therapeutic Counsellor
✓ Registered Counselling Supervisor

Craig is a client-centered, experiential counsellor who takes an integrative approach to anxiety, stress, parenting issues, grief and loss, couples issues, anger, and trauma. He’s worked with a diverse client population, including those who identify as LGBT2QIA and holds a diploma in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology.

Craig has worked with individuals, families, couples and youth in private practice and within family service agencies. He’s also led a men’s group for 4-years and worked with veterans and high-risk youth. Craig has trained in Family Systems Theory, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Breath-work Therapy, and Mindfulness.

For the past eleven years, Craig has also worked for Clearmind International Institute as an Instructor of the Practitioners Counsellor Training Program, a 3-year part-time counsellor training program, and as a workshop facilitator.

“Change often involves letting go of strategies that we initially developed to protect ourselves. Giving up familiar patterns and habits (even those which are no longer helpful or adaptive) can be scary. I help clients regulate anxiety in the face of change. I support clients to tune into the wisdom of their core, adaptive feelings. When experienced fully, these healthy emotions provide important information about basic needs and guide us to act in ways that better fulfill these needs. This empowers clients to live more fully and freely, with greater satisfaction.

This inviting, experiential approach is particularly well suited to clients who want to enhance their sense of connection with themselves and others, and to people who want to experience greater self-esteem and self-trust.”

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