Beginning Port Coquitlam Counselling in BC creates an opportunity to begin the process of change and healing for your life and your relationships.  Many people are not familiar with what a counselor or psychologist with do to help them and this may be a frightening or scary thought to contact a therapist.  Your counselor is not only intelligent, but also practical in helping you to feel at ease in an unfamiliar situation and begin to develop confidence in this process.  Working together offers you a great alliance to learn healthy habits in relationships and also find a path to developing purpose in your life.  Often, you have ideas and dreams, but getting these in place in your life is complicated with issues and situations in your life.  Your Port Coquitlam Counsellor is here to keep you focused on your goals and to assist you addressing issues that would otherwise take you off course.   

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Counsellor Port Coquitlam Counselling, Therapy and Psychologist in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Help for marriages, couples, individuals, families and relationships for counseling in Port Coquitlam and the surrounding areas.

Other Areas of Practice: self-esteem counselor, addictions (alcohol abuse, substance abuse, gambling, sexual addiction, internet addiction), career counseling Port Coquitlam, credit counsellor, depression counsellor, spiritual and Christian counselling Port Coquitlam, child therapist, burnout, grief & loss, psychological testing and assessment, trauma counselling Port Coquitlam, communication, aging parents, eating disorders, infidelity & affair help, stress therapy, anger management, and panic.

Related Sites:
British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors
The British Columbia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
Canadian Counselling Association
City of Port Coquitlam
Canadian Psychological Association

About Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Riverside, Citadel, Maple Creek, Pitt River, Mary Hill

“PoCo” is the nickname of the city of Port Coquitlam located 45 minutes east of Vancouver.  The city is nearly bisected by the Canadian Pacific Railway yard with two underpass crossings.  The city of Coquitlam with the Coast Mountains is to the north, the Coquitlam River borders it to the west and the cities of Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge are across the Pitt River. The appeal is to have big city connections with small town charm. In 1859 European settlers came to farm beside the Pitt River where the Coast Salish people had already been residing.  Port Coquitlam counselling helps individuals and families work through difficult issues in life for positive change.  The Canadian Pacific Railway moved from Vancouver to the Fraser River in 1911.  Port Coquitlam was incorporated as a municipality in 1913.  Originally, it was a farming community but due to densification and expansion of Vancouver, we now see mostly suburban housing on the northern and south western expansion. A variety of industrial and commercial developments have expended to include metal fabrication, high technology industries and transportation.

Terry Fox, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba grew up in Port Coquitlam as an active teenager involved in many sports.  Terry was only 18 when he was diagnosed with bone cancer and forced to have his right leg amputated above the knee in 1977.  Terry made a decision, while in hospital,  to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research due to the suffering of other young cancer patients.  The “Marathon of Hope” was his journey.  After preparing by running 5,000 kilometres in 18 months, Terry started his run in St. John’s, Newfoundland on April 12, 1980.  Enthusiasm soon grew, and the money collected along his route began to mount as he ran 26 miles a day through the Eastern provinces, Quebec and Ontario. “It was a time Canadians never forgot.”Unfortunately, after 143 days and 5,373 kilometres Terry was forced to stop running outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario due to his cancer appearing in his lungs.  The country was stunned and saddened.  We lost Terry on June 28, 1981.  Each fall the run continues, in Terry’s memory, across the country to raise funds for cancer research.

Port Coquitlam is located in British Columbia, Canada. It has a land area of 29.17 square kilometers.  The population of Port Coquitlam is 58,612 people with 21,753 households . The population ranking for Port Coquitlam is #91 nationally and #19 for the province of British Columbia with a density of 2009.40 people per sq km. Port Coquitlam therapists serve postal code: V3C.