Chelsea McGowaN, MCP RCC

Chelsea McGowan is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) working in Vancouver, BC. She offers individual and group psychotherapy and supervision sessions both in person and online. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology from Adler University and has been practicing for 9 years. Chelsea has specialized training in eating disorders and has worked in community out patient clinics, mental health programs, and private practice with teens (14+), adults, and parents. She is also a dancer and currently teaches contemporary in Vancouver. Alongside her life-long dance training, she is continuing her training in Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal with the guidance of world class teachers and clinicians. This method is the joining of her two loves, expressive art and psychology, but she promises she won’t make you dance in session unless requested!

Chelsea’s continued education includes specific and extensive trainings in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Emotion Focused Family Therapy (EFFT), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectic Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Gottman Couples Counselling, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Intersectional Feminism, and Somatic based and parts work interventions. She also engages in ongoing supervision with a strong commitment to continued work on her craft, herself, and her community.

A typical session with Chelsea will be rooted in:

The Relationship – the collaborative creation of a therapeutic relationship that suits and serves you.  

The Body - an invitation to attune to emotions, sensations, and their stories.

The Here and Now – the work is experiential in that we don’t just talk about new ways of being but practice the expression of it right in the room. We work on noticing, understanding, and responding to old patterns to create new experiences.