Counselling

Bruce Reimer MA RCC is a Registered Clinical Counsellor through the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors. He graduated with his Masters in Psychology in 1992, MBBS, California. Through his graduate studies and continuing professional training, Bruce focuses his therapeutic practice from the Family Systems, Cognitive Behavioural, and Narrative Therapy perspectives in his Counselling work. He enjoys the process of collaborating with individuals to genuinely hear their stories and discover each person's own unique understanding of who they are. Bruce believes the process of change and renewal comes from within one's own self, and so the counselling experience helps to nurture and reveal these inner strengths and apply them to their life events.

Through his 20 years of experience, Bruce has specialized in the areas of family systems work, parent-child challenges, childhood developmental needs, children with a diagnosis of autism as well as general developmental characteristics. Bruce works to understand the unique skills and abilities that each person possesses. The process of Counselling and Consulting helps to uncover these abilities for the child and enables a much higher quality of life both for the child, their family, and support networks.

Bruce provides counselling for adults who find themselves challenged by events or circumstances that life brings their way. This may include grief work, struggles with anxiety or shame, interpersonal challenges with family or other work/community members. Often having a deeper understanding of one's own life journey, through one's childhood and into the present, gives new strength and greater peace for the challenges and joys ahead.

Counselling with Bruce can be a short term process of 1 to 6 sessions for solving issues or concerns in the Brief Therapy model. Alternately Bruce also does longer term work with individuals who would like to explore the roots of patterns in their lives or to move through difficult life challenges that are limiting their coping strengths.

Fees

Bruce's fees are $90 dollars per 60 minute session. Looking for a good therapeutic fit with your counsellor is an important aspect of the counselling process. Bruce would be glad to speak with you by phone to give you a sense of who he is and answer questions that you may have about his counselling style and the fit that you may be looking for.

Counselling fees may be provided through your employer's extended health plan or various BC funding providers such as ICBC or Victim's Assistance. Alternately you can have your EAP (employee assistance program) contact Bruce to arrange payment through this source as most EAPs use BC Registered Clinical Counsellors for these services.