Registered Clinical Counsellors work across a broad scope of practice. At Coova, our counselling services are delivered by Registered Clinical Counsellors (RCCs) who provide evidence-based therapeutic support for individuals and families navigating mental health challenges, trauma, relational difficulties, and life transitions, working alongside and integrated into the care team leading your plan. Your case manager remains your primary point of contact, holding the bigger picture and ensuring all counselling support, whether individual therapy, trauma-focused work, or family counselling, is integrated into one coordinated plan built around you.
Individualized Support, Where You Live
Our counselling services provide clinically informed, relationship-based therapeutic support delivered wherever you are, in your home, community, or virtually. Registered Clinical Counsellors are trained to assess mental health needs and deliver a range of evidence-based therapeutic approaches, working with individuals and families to address what’s getting in the way of wellbeing.
This flexibility is intentional. Therapeutic work is most effective when it’s grounded in the real context of a person’s life, not removed from it. Every counselling service is delivered with a commitment to ethical practice, cultural humility, and client dignity and integrated into the broader care plan your case manager is leading.
The goal is not only to reduce symptoms, but to build insight, strengthen relationships, and create a clearer path forward through coordinated, community-based counselling support.
Your counsellor provides one-on-one therapeutic support tailored to your goals, history, and current challenges. Sessions may draw on a range of evidence-based approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy, emotion-focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and others, selected based on what fits your needs and situation, not a one-size-fits-all protocol.
Relational strain, communication breakdown, and family conflict affect everyone in a system, not just the person identified as struggling. Our counsellors work with families and couples to improve communication, build empathy, navigate conflict, and strengthen the connections that support long-term wellbeing.
Major losses and life transitions, bereavement, relationship endings, career change, diagnosis, aging, can destabilize identity and functioning in ways that aren’t always recognized as grief. Our counsellors provide space to process these experiences at the pace that’s right for you, without rushing toward resolution.
Counselling at Coova doesn’t operate independently of the rest of your care. Your counsellor is an active member of your clinical team, communicating with your case manager, psychiatrist, and other providers to ensure therapeutic goals are aligned with and reinforced by every other element of your plan. This coordination is what separates counselling within Coova from counselling in isolation.
Your counsellor doesn’t work in a silo. At Coova, real-time communication and transparency across your clinical team, including social work, psychiatry and psychology, occupational therapy, nursing, behavioural consulting, dietitian services, speech and language, recreational therapy, and spiritual and cultural support, means insights are shared, plans stay aligned, and clinical goals are met through a team that’s consistently working from the same page.
Our counselling services in BC support individuals and families including:
We also provide counselling support for:
A Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in BC is a regulated mental health professional registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). RCCs hold a master’s degree in counselling psychology or a related field and are trained to provide a range of therapeutic services. While psychologists can administer psychological assessments and social workers carry a broader systemic scope of practice, RCCs specialize in therapeutic counselling, making them well-suited for individual therapy, trauma work, and relational counselling within a coordinated care model.
No referral is required. You can contact us directly to begin. We welcome self-referrals, as well as referrals from physicians, psychiatrists, schools, and community organizations.
Counselling services are not covered by MSP, but there may be more funding options available than you’d expect, including extended health benefits and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), many of which include RCC coverage. Navigating coverage can be confusing, and we’re here to help you get clarity on what applies to your situation.
Support is offered in your home, community spaces, or virtually depending on your needs and preferences. In-person community-based sessions are available where clinically appropriate.
Our counselling services are designed to complement, not replace, existing care. Your counsellor communicates directly with your case manager and the rest of your Coova clinical team to ensure therapeutic work is cohesive and aligned with your broader care plan.
Both. Support can be structured around an individual or extended to include family or couples sessions, particularly where relational dynamics are central to what’s getting in the way. During your initial consultation, we will help determine the configuration of support that best fits your situation.
A consultation is the best place to start. We take the time to understand your situation and whether this service is well-suited to your needs. If another form of mental health support would serve you better, we will be transparent and help you find the right direction.
Yes. Counsellors at Coova Health are registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) and adhere to professional and ethical standards. Learn more at bcacc.ca.
Coova Health is based in Vancouver, BC while offering private case management services across British Columbia.
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