Erin Keely
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)
B.A., M.A., M.Ed.
Populations: 19+, Individuals & Couples Availability: Weekday & Evenings Session Format: In-Person & Virtual
Hey, I’m Erin!
As a Registered Clinical Counsellor, I strive to create relationships with clients that are warm, trusting, and thoughtful, so I can be deeply attuned to your experience.
For over a decade, I have studied the transformative power of emotion. Along my own journey, I pursued a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science, focused on Affect Theory (the theory of emotion in politics) and Indigenous Politics, alongside professional roles in policy and advocacy. The same passion for the ability of emotion to transform our inner and outer worlds led me to pursuing a career in Counselling Psychology.
Now, as I continue to deepen my work in private practice, I have the privilege of sitting with individuals and couples along their journey to change. Counselling is deeply personal, and I consider it a gift to understand your experience, join you in your journey, and witness your transformation.
WHO I WORK WITH
I work with a wide range of individuals and couples—many of whom identify as high-functioning but overwhelmed, thoughtful but stuck, or quietly carrying more than they let on. I support people navigating anxiety, burnout, relationship challenges, identity shifts, and the often-complicated experience of being human.
With couples, I often help clients improve communication, reconnect emotionally, and shift patterns that no longer serve them. Together we’ll explore what’s happening beneath the surface, so you can feel unstuck, confident, and connected - together.
I welcome clients of diverse identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences, including LGBTQIA2S+ folks, racialised individuals, creatives, caregivers, professionals, and people in transition (planned or not). My role isn’t to be you, but to deeply understand your experience. I bring a critical lens to my own identity and continue to engage in training that supports inclusive, anti-oppressive practice.
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Anti-Oppressive Counselling
Anxiety
Boundaries & Communication
Chronic Pain & Illness
Depression & Hopelessness
Eating Disorders/Disordered Eating
Grief & Loss
Life Transitions
Perfectionism
Relationships & Attachment
Relationship/Couples Counselling
Self-Concept & Self-Esteem
Stress & Burnout
Trauma-Informed Counselling
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I specialize in working with individuals and couples working through relational challenges. This can include work around attachment styles, relational trauma, and communication tools.
My second specialty is in working with individuals who are looking to prevent and recover from burnout.Many of the clients I work with are recovering from chronic stress, people pleasing tendencies, and perfectionism.
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My approach to counselling is grounded in training, research, and evidence-based approaches. The foundation of my approach includes Internal Family Systems, Emotions-Focused Therapy, and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy.
In our sessions, I take an emotions-focused and experiential approach to help you make the most of our time together. We’ll explore your emotions and current experiences with curiosity, while also identifying the cognitive and behavioral patterns at play. With compassion, we’ll envision change and put it into practice both in and outside of therapy. Clients often leave feeling a sense of peace, relief, and equipped with strategies to use between sessions. -
My approach to counselling is grounded in my understanding of human transformation and change.
Each person’s story is important and should be held with care and compassion.
Human beings are inherently resilient and transformative change is possible.
Roadblocks can arise when patterns of behaviour, beliefs, and emotions that once served us, no longer do.
Resolutions can be found by re-examining our roadblocks through the lens of curiosity and compassion.
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Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT for Couples
The Gottman Method
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Mindfulness
MY APPROACH
CREDENTIALS & TRAINING
Education
Master of Education
Counselling Psychology
University of British Columbia
Master of Arts
Political Science
York University
Bachelor of Arts
Political Science & Sociology
University of Victoria
Registrations
Registered Clinical Counsellor
BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
Therapeutic Training
Gottman Method Training Level I
The Gottman Institute
Emotionally Focused Therapy For Couples by Sue Johnson
PESI Continuing Education
IFS Immersion
PESI Continuing Education
Process-Based Therapy Workshop
PESI Continuing Education
Additional Training
Foundations of 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusivity
Qmmunity
QPR Suicide Prevention Training
University of British Columbia
safeTALK
Vancouver Crisis Centre
Tools for Managing Stress and Burnout
Vancouver Crisis Centre
1. What’s your general vibe in session?
✓ Engaged, relational, and attuned
☐ Structured and goal-oriented
☐ Quiet and mostly observational
☐ Direct and highly focused on solutions2. What do you often find yourself saying in therapy?
✓ “What feels most important today?”
✓ “Hey, are you also noticing you’re really should-ing yourself today?”
✓ “That sounds pretty human to me.”
✓ The occasional metaphor that makes you pause and say: "...weirdly accurate..."
☐ “And how does that make you feel?” (with the slow "knowing" nod and squint)3. I work well with people who...
✓ "Have it all together", but secretly feel like a browser with 267 tabs open
✓ Are navigating "what am I doing with my life?" moments
✓ Are in relationships that feel more complicated than they do connective
✓ Want an insightful approach that focuses on relationship and real expertise4. How do you want therapy to feel for your clients?
☐ Like they need to perform “progress”
☐ Constant pressure to agree with me
☐ Emotionally intense 100% of the time
✓ Like there is space for laughter and grief - sometimes in the same hour
✓ Gently challenged, in tandem with feeling genuinely seen and understood
✓ Safe to offer feedback, without worrying it’ll make things awkward5. What do you think sets you apart as a therapist?
My approach blends clinical experience with a deeply human presence—never sacrificing one for the other. I bring warmth and insight, and am actively engaged in session. I’m attuned to the subtle moments that often carry the most weight: a shift in tone, a shrug, a glance that says more than words. These small cues matter. I work relationally, which means I pay attention to what happens between us—not just what’s happening around us.
My hope is that you feel recognized for the strength and sincerity that lives within your own humanness—the tender, the tangled, and the protective parts you’ve kept tucked away—and that you leave our sessions feeling more authentic, connected, and at home in yourself.PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE
Kind Words Shared By Previous Clients
“Erin is the best counsellor that I've ever had, and I've seen quite a few. She is lovely, compassionate, and thoughtful; her attentive listening leads to great insights that have significantly helped my self-confidence and anxiety. Her greatest skill is her ability to reframe negative thoughts and break self-destructive thought patterns. I cannot recommend her more to anyone seeking help.”
— J. W.
“When I entered into counselling and saw how genuinely caring, attentive, and supportive Erin is, it both inspired and relaxed me. I don’t think I have ever had the level of support, connection, and understanding anywhere.”