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Addictions Counselling Vancouver

Healing Steps Therapy is committed to helping you get back on track and enjoy your life. Dawna Silver's counselling approach is positive and time sensitive so that you can move beyond the obstacles that have prevented you from fully living your life and achieving your goals. Dawna uses proven methods of treatment via the telephone, computer conferencing (Skype), long distance counselling or one of our convenient locations in Downtown Vancouver, West Broadway and on the border of Vancouver and Burnaby BC. To serve your emotional and mental health needs, evening and weekend sessions are available.

Therapy Works! Some of the issues therapy can help with include:

  • Easing Depression
  • Addictions Counselling
  • Increasing Self esteem
  • Goal Achievement
  • Relationship Negotiation
  • Life Transitions
  • Sexual Issues
  • Anxiety Reduction
  • Understanding the Family of origin
  • Harm Reduction
  • Trauma
  • Grief and Loss
  • Exploring Core Needs

Healing Steps Therapy offers confidential individual, couples, family and group therapy for clients at 3 convenient locations in Downtown Vancouver, West Broadway and near Metrotown to grow beyond personal difficulties. Dawna's compassionate, gentle and honest approach allows you to understand your emotions while preparing you with tangible tools that empower and help clients maintain longterm personal wellbeing in a challenging world. At Healing Steps Therapy you will learn skills to help you make healthy decisions and maintain balance through life's trials and tribulations. Whether you have a specific issue that you want to address or you want to re-examine your life purpose, Dawna Silver M.A. is a skilled therapist who will help you heal from your difficulties through insight and practical tools to change how you experience your life.

"What will you do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver

Techniques used

  1. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR Therapy)
  2. Dreamwork
  3. Hypnosis
  4. Client Centered Therapy
  5. Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT)
  6. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

What Happens Next?

Call today for a free 15 minute consultation:
778-885-1950 or email: dawna@HealingStepsTherapy.com

During the consultation we will discuss your goals for therapy and decide together if your needs and my services are a good therapeutic fit. Once we book your first session you  will receive a confidential intake form via email which you will fill out bring to your first session. Healing Steps is pleased to accept credit card payments via paypal, cash or cheque.

Dawna A.Silver MA, RCC

Dawna Silver

"Contentment often requires a combination of adequate present day skills and a willingness to make peace with the past. I use a positive approach that helps people identify problems and systematically move forward."


"A designation of BC Association of Clinical Counsellors"


Testimonials:

“My experience with you will always be treasured…people come into your life for lessons to learn…you let me discover my own beliefs and emotions on my own, with gentle guidance ” (Female client, 30’s, 2012)

“The EMDR was extremely helpful. It brought up old memories and events that occurred in my life that I either forgot or buried so deep I chose to forget... I found the experience extremely helpful and give the exercise nothing but praise.” (Individual therapy male client, 40’s, 2011)

“Wow!  a mix of spiritual soul work and modern psychology” (Group and individual therapy female client 30’s, 2009)

“Dawna, you have touched my life in a way that is indeed indescribable. Thank you so much.” (Group and individual therapy male client, 20’s, 2010)

“Thank you for all your help. People come in with sadness, shame and hopeless. You put them out with a smile, warm hearted and hope again in their lives.” (Group and individual therapy male client, 40’s, 2010)

“At first I felt that it would be awkward to have a female counsellor in our men’s group. That thought changed in about two minutes. I will miss our group sessions of nine men and one woman. The group of ten has now become single individuals again and move on in a new direction of life.” (Group and individual therapy male client, 50’s, 2010)

“Her deep caring and compassion is powerfully healing...her wisdom and intuition impressed me.” (Group and individual therapy male client, 50’s, 2010)