Counselling for BCEHS Paramedics and Dispatchers — At No Cost to You
You show up for people in their worst moments. What happens to everything you carry from those calls?
I am a contracted clinical counsellor with BC Emergency Health Services’ Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) program. If you’re a BCEHS paramedic or dispatcher, counselling through the CISM program costs you nothing — I invoice BCEHS directly. There’s nothing for you to navigate financially.
I offer in-person sessions in Squamish and online sessions across BC.
About my background
My connection to emergency services started through over a decade of volunteer work with Squamish Search and Rescue (SSAR), working in the field alongside paramedics and first responders. I know the culture — the dark humour, the compartmentalizing, the way you debrief on the drive back and then walk through your front door and act like everything is fine.
I also know the particular worry that many paramedics and dispatchers carry into a therapist’s office: that the details of your calls will be too much for someone who wasn’t there. They won’t be. I’ve sat with those stories many times. You don’t need to protect me from what you’ve seen.
What I can help with
BCEHS paramedics and dispatchers come to me with:
- Critical incident stress from specific calls — MVIs, pediatric deaths, colleague suicides, police-involved incidents
- Cumulative occupational stress — the weight of years of difficult calls, not any one event
- PTSD and operational stress injuries
- Sleep difficulties, hypervigilance, emotional numbing
- Relationship and family strain from the demands of shift work and carrying work home
- Moral injury — calls where the outcome wasn’t what it should have been
How I work
I use EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) — a well-researched, evidence-based treatment for PTSD and critical incident stress that is widely used with first responders. EMDR works directly with how traumatic memories are stored in the nervous system, and it doesn’t require you to talk through every detail of what happened in order to process it. I also work somatically — paying attention to how stress and trauma live in the body, not just the mind.
Sessions are practical, direct, and grounded in respect for what you do.
How it works
- Contact the BCEHS CISM program to get authorization for counselling — call 1-855-969-4321
- Contact me to book your first session — or reach out first and I can help you navigate the process
- Book in person in Squamish or online anywhere in BC
- I invoice BCEHS directly — there is no cost to you
When You’re Ready
If something here resonates, reach out. What you’re carrying doesn’t have to stay where it is — and there’s often more room for change than it feels like from the inside.
You can book a session directly, or start with a free 15-minute phone consultation — no commitment required.
In-person counselling in Squamish and throughout the Sea to Sky corridor — online sessions available to BCEHS employees across BC.