About Me

Hi there!

I’m Megan Jamieson (she/her) and I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Whether this is the first time you’ve considered therapy, or you are considering making therapy part of your self-care routine again, I’m so glad that you’re here. I provide clinical counselling both in-person and virtually for teens, adults, and couples. I’m passionate about working with people through an integrative perspective because I believe everyone should have the opportunity to discover their strengths, make sense of their experiences, and find personally meaningful paths forward. 

In my previous career, I served in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Army Officer for more than twelve years and left to pursue a career in mental health. What I learned from this experience was how teamwork that values openness, flexible thinking, and empathy can enable powerful shifts in how we see ourselves and how we see the issue we are facing. I believe in bringing this team spirit into the therapy room, where we will find our own way of working collaboratively to explore your goals together.

I’m Megan Jamieson (she/her) and I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Whether this is the first time you’ve considered therapy, or you are considering making therapy part of your self-care routine again, I’m so glad that you’re here. I provide clinical counselling both in-person and virtually for teens, adults, and couples. I’m passionate about working with people through an integrative perspective because I believe everyone should have the opportunity to discover their strengths, make sense of their experiences, and find personally meaningful paths forward. 

In my previous career, I served in the Canadian Armed Forces as an Army Officer for more than twelve years and left to pursue a career in mental health. What I learned from this experience was how teamwork that values openness, flexible thinking, and empathy can enable powerful shifts in how we see ourselves and how we see the issue we are facing. I believe in bringing this team spirit into the therapy room, where we will find our own way of working collaboratively to explore your goals together.

Some of My Favourite Approaches Include:

Person-Centred Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Exposure Therapy
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
Solution-Focussed Brief Therapy
Somatic Experiencing Therapy
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Gottman Method
Expressive Art Therapy
Mindfulness Based Self-Compassion
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy

Specialties

  • Medical advocacy skill building for ADHD assessment, diagnosis, and treatment
  • Coping skills to support ADHD executive dysfunction, overwhelm, and sensory overload
  • Affirming self-diagnosis 
  • ADHD and Relationships
  • Coping skills to support anxiety through sleep hygiene, self-esteem, self-care routines, and resilience building activities 
  • Appropriate for anxiety related to social anxiety disorder, phobias, generalised anxiety disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder 
  • Help with developing self-compassion skills
  • PTSD and CPTSD 
  • Approaches may include EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, Expressive Art Therapy, CBT-Trauma, and Exposure Therapy
  • We may also explore the neurobiology of attachment and how these early experiences shape your current life and self-concept
  • Support to work towards acceptance of a chronic illness diagnosis while processing feelings of grief, burnout, and anxiety related to the diagnosis 
  • Communication, boundary setting, and medical advocacy skill building
  • Explore setting and achieving new goals
  • Coping skills to support depression symptom
  • Exploring current strengths and coping skills and integrating them into a tangible self-care plan
  • We will explore the neurobiology of depression and nervous system regulation
  • Support for PTSD and C-PTSD through an integrated approach which includes CBT, body-focused strategies, as well as education on the neuroscience of trauma during and after traumatic events
  • Process vicarious trauma and moral injury 
  • Develop an individualised approach to proactively using the skill of compartmentalising in high-stress environments, and how to re-engage with your environment in times of safety and calm
  • You deserve to have a safe and welcoming space to explore what your grief means in the greater context of continuing to live a life that is meaningful and purposeful.
  • You will be encouraged to share your experience of grief at your own pace, while being supported with tools to support your unique grieving process.
  • Support for healthcare workers, mental health professionals, and caretakers who are working through burnout, compassion fatigue, and workplace stress
  • Support for people of all genders who have experienced recent or historic sexual violence 
  • We may explore themes of safety in your environment, safety within yourself, building a community of support, developing updated self-care strategies, and re-establishing your sense of identity and bodily autonomy
  • Exploring the root of perfectionism and burnout
  • We will also explore themes of identity, self-compassion, boundaries, and secondary loss
  • Approaches may include EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing, Expressive Art Therapy, CBT-Trauma, and Exposure Therapy
  • I support individuals and couples who are facing relationship challenges in their lives, which may include navigating major life transitions like illness, moving, or having children 
  • I work from a sex-therapy-informed and LGBTQAI+ lens with couples of all forms in navigating emotional, physical, and sexual intimacy issues

Ready to Start Your Journey?

Education & Experience

Registered Clinical Counsellor #20979
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors

Masters of Arts in Counselling Psychology 
Yorkville University, 2022

Bachelor of Management 
University of British Columbia Okanagan, 2009

Ongoing & Completed

Professional Development

  • A Wounded Healer Heals: Dr. Yalom on Life, Loss, and Therapy 
    Dr. Irvin Yalom 
  • As Wartime Realities Unfold: Supporting Clients in Traumatic Shock 
    Dr. David Grand, LCSW
  • Brain Story Certification
    Alberta Family Wellness Initiative + The University of Oxford
  • BC – Core Indigenous Cultural Safety Mental Health
    San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training Program
  • Clinical Applications of IFS Therapy 
    Frank Anderson, MD
  • Disaster Mental Health: How to Help in the Aftermath of a Tragedy 
    Robert Scholz, LMFT, LPCC & Dr. Susan Hall
  • EMDR Basic Training
    Sue Genest, MSc, RCC, CCC
  • EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma
    Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT
  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy – Level 1 
    The Gottman Institute
  • Healing Invisible Wounds: Working Through Past Sexual Trauma in Relationships 
    Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman
  • Intensive Sex Therapy Training Program
    University of Guelph
  • Introduction to Gender-Affirming Primary Care
    UBC Continuing Professional Development
  • Motivational Interviewing 
    UBC Continuing Professional Development 
  • Pat Ogden’s Complex Trauma Master Class: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Action
    Pat Ogden, PhD
  • Psychopharmacology – Essential Information for Mental Health Professionals 
    Kenneth Carter, PhD, ABPP
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Anxiety Post Motor Vehicle Crash (MVC) 
    UBC Continuing Professional Development
  • Providing Inclusive, Respectful Care to Your Gender Questioning, Transgender, & Nonbinary Clients
    Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC 
  • Queering Mental Health Conference Attendee, 2021, and 2023 
    Our Landing Place
  • Somatic Therapy for Trauma Treatment: Healing attachment, racial, and collective trauma through the body 
    Janina Fisher, PhD, Pat Ogden, PhD, Resmaa Menakem, MSW, SEP, and Abi Blakeslee, PhD, MFT, CMT, SEP. 
  • Therapeutic Interventions for Front Line Service Members: Essentials From the Treatment Table to Boots on the Ground
  • The Grief Summit Attendee, 2022
    Hosted by David Kessler and Claire Bidwell Smith