Frequently Asked Questions

What is the cost?
Our fees for psychological and counselling services are consistent with the guidelines of the related BC professional bodies; which are BC College of Psychologists and BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. We accept cash or cheque only.
Is it covered by MSP?
Charge is not covered by the BC Medical service Plan (MSP). Most employee benefit plans, private health insurance plans, and college/university students health plans provide some coverage. The fees are tax deductible as a medical expense. They may also be tax deductible as a business expense, or as an employee benefit by your company.
How long are the typical sessions?
Sessions are usually 50 minutes.
Reasons people choose a registered psychologist?
  • Enhance emotional health and well-being, scientific studies suggest that psychological intervention combines with drug treatment best improve people suffering from psychological disorders
  • Reach for better relationships with your partner, family members and/or friends
  • Learn ways to solve your problems more effectively
  • Find positive ways to deal with stress and/or crisis
  • Move from feeling sad, nervous, or tense to feeling more positive and relaxed
  • Deal with emotional health of a family member or partner
  • Address challenges that do not seem to get resolved despite your efforts
  • Increase your ability to carry out everyday activities
    • What is counselling or psychological treatment?
  • Counselling or psychological treatment is not just an interview, giving advice, teaching, or problem solving.
  • It is a process to open up and explore parts of yourself that you may be or not even aware of, including both positive and negative experiences, and past and present events; the process aims at integrating them together.
  • It is a relationship that established and experienced in the counselling process when one person help another in an understanding, empathic and trusting way; and the relationship is to be modeled upon in other relationships.
  • It is a systematic learning experience to examine and to optimize various aspects of your daily life, behaviour, attitude, feeling, thinking, and relationships.
  • It is a personal development journey to explore your opinion, your feeling and thinking, about yourself, other significant people, and your circumstance.
    • Common symptoms that seek psychological assessment and treatment:
  • Children show signs of being unhappy, worried, guilty, fearful, helpless, loneliness or feeling of being rejected. They start to complain of physical pain and aches, or have negative thinking of low self-esteem, self-dislike, or self blame.
  • Children have behaviours of inattention, overly impulsive, or hyperactive; and have very poor performance in language and mathematics in school despite having regular capability in everyday life.
  • Young people have sudden change of behaviour, withdraw from friends and activities; increase use of alcohol and drugs, or having self-harming behaviour.
  • Young people experience personality change, such as the loss of emotion, interest, and motivation. Sometimes the emotions are inappropriate to the situation, or the thoughts and beliefs are very unreasonable or reporting visual or sensual hallucinations.
  • People suffer an event in the past which is so shattering that it continues to have a serious effect on them now, such as extreme discomfort, nightmares, flashbacks in which they relive and suffer from the situation again.
  • Adults are worry about their personal problems, or about their family or children’s future. They are chronically stressed and when unable to resolve their problems, may experience insomnia, unable to concentrate, errors in judgment, easily frustrated, experience anxiety, memory loss, catch cold easily or developing other illness such as ulcers or heart disease.

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