Beyond the Pines Therapy

Beyond the Pines Therapy Depth Therapy for lasting change! Welcome! I am a psychotherapist, Registered Clinical Counsellor, and owner of Beyond the Pines Therapy based in Vancouver, BC.

I hold a B.F.A. in Theatre from U.B.C. and an M.A. in Counselling Psychology from The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. I have completed clinical internships through Dr. Peter Centre and Nightingale Counselling & Research, and am committed to ongoing education and clinical supervision. My approach is non-directive, collaborative, and highly exploratory. I engage clients with sincere curiosi

ty and an underlying belief in the resilience of the human spirit. I utilize psychodynamic, family systems, and attachment-focused approaches to provide in-person and online services for adults, teenagers, and couples. I offer trauma-informed treatment that extends beyond temporary symptom relief and helps you move towards a greater experience of wholeness. Having grown up in northern towns all over Western Canada and moving 30 times by the age of 30, I am accustomed to building relationships with new people. I have enjoyed exposure to wildly different communities and have a background in various fields including industrial work, bartending, theatre/film, and education. Outside of the therapy office you may find me at the cinema, exploring the coastline with my family, enjoying a very loud concert, rehearsing a new play, or immersing myself in a Steinbeck novel.

Sam Shepard's plays evoke a deep understanding of our internal worlds and the transmission of pain across generations. 🌲...
04/16/2026

Sam Shepard's plays evoke a deep understanding of our internal worlds and the transmission of pain across generations.

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For Michael Eigen, dream work is the psyche's ongoing attempt to digest experience, especially pain and trauma, by shapi...
04/08/2026

For Michael Eigen, dream work is the psyche's ongoing attempt to digest experience, especially pain and trauma, by shaping it into images, affects, and symbolic forms that can be felt, contained, and transformed.

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For Michael Eigen, dream work is the psyche's ongoing attempt to digest experience, especially pain and trauma, by shapi...
04/08/2026

For Michael Eigen, dream work is the psyche's ongoing attempt to digest experience, especially pain and trauma, by shaping it into images, affects, and symbolic forms that can be felt, contained, and transformed.

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β€œPsychotherapy takes place in the overlap of two areas of playing.” - D.W. Winnicott
03/17/2026

β€œPsychotherapy takes place in the overlap of two areas of playing.” - D.W. Winnicott

More men need to read James Hollis.🌲🌲🌲
03/09/2026

More men need to read James Hollis.

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How do we maintain and develop an internal sense of narrative consistency when we are constantly changing? Winnicott's e...
03/04/2026

How do we maintain and develop an internal sense of narrative consistency when we are constantly changing? Winnicott's emphasis of "Going on Being" brings this into focus.

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Introducing Jeff Eaton Triangles, a series of triangles that reveal different states of mind, from the psychoanalyst Jef...
02/27/2026

Introducing Jeff Eaton Triangles, a series of triangles that reveal different states of mind, from the psychoanalyst Jeff Eaton. The first is a "fixed mindset", which allows for the illusion of safety.

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"Life is suffering" as the Buddhists say. How we orient to this inevitability has profound implications.🌲🌲🌲             ...
02/24/2026

"Life is suffering" as the Buddhists say. How we orient to this inevitability has profound implications.

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02/11/2026
There are many definitions of a "self". Here is a version that demonstrates a self that can recognize and tolerate ambiv...
02/07/2026

There are many definitions of a "self". Here is a version that demonstrates a self that can recognize and tolerate ambivalence. This demonstrates Melanie Klein's PS -> D move.

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This reverses Freud's notion of making the unconscious conscious. Ogden, echoing Bion, is making the claim that both con...
02/04/2026

This reverses Freud's notion of making the unconscious conscious. Ogden, echoing Bion, is making the claim that both conscious and unconscious processing are required for growth to happen. Sometimes conscious experiences require the psychological digestion of the dream state, the non-linear, symbolic capacities of right-brain unconscious process to metabolize experience.

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104-1687 West Broadway, BC V6J-1X 6
Vancouver, BC
V6J1X6

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