Counselling Services
NEC Counselling
Our licensed counsellors provide a safe and confidential environment to help our Indigenous learner’s transition into student life. Whether it’s working through anxiety, depression, or grief, our counsellors can help. Students can either drop-in or make an appointment.
Personal Counselling
Our licensed counsellors provide support for various personal situations including:
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- Relationship difficulties
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Building coping skills
- Self-esteem
- Suicidal thoughts
- Grief and loss
- Abuse in intimate relationships
- Survivors of childhood sexual abuse
- Adult sexual assault
- Survivors of Indian Residential Schools and/or foster care
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Support for a Crisis Situation
For crisis situations, our licensed counsellors can help you work through issues including:
- Suicidal thoughts or feelings
- Threats of physical harm or assault
- Extreme anxiety or panic attacks
- The sudden death of a student, staff or faculty member
Workshops
Workshop and group offerings vary throughout the year. If you are interested in a workshop or group that is not presently offered, please contact us with your interest at fvrc@necvancouver.org. If we have sufficient interest in a workshop or group, we will offer it as soon as possible.
Workshop topics:
- Coping with Anxiety & Grounding Activities
- Getting Things Done": Change Process & Goal Setting
- Healthy Relationships, Healthy Boundaries
- Lateral Violence & Toolkit Ideas for Lateral Kindness
- Life Writing: Applications for Healing and Wellbeing
- Lifting the Fog: Coping with Depression
- Medicine Wheel Teachings
- Photovoice & Applications for Individual Wellness
- Resilience & Strength-Based Approaches to Wellness (Narrative Therapy)
- 7 Grandfather Teachings (Love, Courage, Humility, Honesty, Respect, Truth, Wisdom)
Groups
- Recovery & Peer Support Circle
- Cultural Arts – Beading, painting, drum making
Resources
Community Resources
There are numerous community resources to access in Metro Vancouver including housing, legal, and child care. Click here for a list of community resources.
For more information, contact: