Talking helps.
With all that goes on in our day-to-day lives, it’s easy to sometimes feel overwhelmed or burdened. Whether you’re raising children, building a career, facing a family challenge, or simply taking on too much, counselling can be a safe place to talk over life’s stresses and gain a fresh perspective.
Counsellors are trained to help take a clear look at what’s happening in your world, talk through the clutter with you, help define goals, and encourage your progress towards them. Sometimes, it just takes a little support to get where you’re going.
Not sure where to turn? SHARE Family & Community Services offers a fee-based counselling program for residents of the Tri-Cities and Metro Vancouver. Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Services (CARF), SHARE strictly upholds the program’s rigorous standards to ensure that our services are of a very high caliber.
Who we support.
SHARE offers clients a team of highly-qualified counsellors. We have experience working with a variety of people, including children, families, individuals, and couples.
Free Counselling for problem gambling is also available.
A counsellor for everyone.
SHARE’s counselling team offers a wide variety of backgrounds, training, and life experiences. Our Intake Worker will ask you a few questions and match you with a counsellor most appropriate for you.
All of our counsellors hold either a doctorate (PhD) or masters degree in counselling, social work, or another related discipline and offer at least 5-years of hands-on counselling experience. Some even offer their services in languages other than English. Ask our Intake Worker about counselling in Chinese, Farsi, French, or German. We also offer services to hearing or visually impaired clients.
We offer services in:
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- Loss and grief
- Depression
- Stress
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered issues
- Couple and family concerns
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Translation services can be arranged. Some subsidy is available for Tri-Cities residents.
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QMUNITY is BC's Queer resource centre, offering a wide range of programming and services for LGBT people, including, free counselling, Out On the Shelves Library, Gab youth programming, Generations programming for LGBT people 40 and over, Queer Competency Trainings for service providers, and much more. For information, visit www.qmunity.ca or call 604-684-5307.