Three decades of listening to children's voices.

My approach blends playful and expressive therapies with neuroscience, backed by extensive academic and professional education.

Clinical expertise,
grounded in relationship.

Since 2014, I have supported children, youth and families facing anxiety, depression, OCD, self-harm and suicidal ideation, and helped clients build healthy ways of coping with high stress and major life transitions. I believe therapy can lead to lasting change, but only a small part of that work happens in the session itself. Change grows as clients begin to notice their own emotional patterns, habits and relationship dynamics, and then make deliberate choices that improve daily life.

I shape therapy around each child and family, drawing on approaches that fit their goals and how they learn best. My training and experience include CBT, exposure and response prevention, play therapy and art-based therapy, so families have real choices that suit them. Each plan is made together with you and your child. It starts with safety, respects your family's history and preferences, and builds on the strengths you already have.

Before private practice, I worked in elementary schools, with the Ministry of Children and Family Development and in community settings, supporting children and families who were coping with trauma, going without enough food, or struggling to reach services. I also held leadership roles in nonprofit and private organizations. That breadth has left me convinced that, with the right support, every child, youth and family can thrive.

In person in Vancouver, and virtual across B.C.

The path to here

From art and community work to clinical counselling.

I came to counselling by a longer route than most. My undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. In my twenties and thirties I worked in community-based family support on the Downtown Eastside, followed by a decade in early childhood education, providing inclusive child care consultation.

Wanting to support neurodivergent children, youth and their families in a more clinical setting, I returned to school to deepen my education in counselling psychology and autism.

Today, as a Registered Clinical Counsellor, I provide psychotherapy and counselling to children, youth and families in Vancouver and across B.C., in person and online. If your family is working through a difficult transition, wants to build new coping skills, or needs short-term support such as safety planning, suicide risk assessment or harm-reduction planning, I offer expertise, warmth and compassion.

Working with me

Collaborative, neuro-affirming, warm.

I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors. My clinical training includes extensive work in child-centred play and art-based therapies. I have also completed training in Collaborative and Proactive Solutions with Dr. Ross Greene, and I am currently studying to join the BC Roster of Parenting Coordinators and the BC Hear the Child Roster. I am an active member of the BC Play Therapy Association, the BC Hear the Child Society and the British Columbia Art Therapy Association.

I am also the parent of an AuDHD child, so I know first-hand what it takes to navigate complex medical and educational systems in B.C. That experience shapes how I coach parents.

Therapy with me is collaborative, strengths-based and neuro-affirming, with emotional safety at its centre. The work can run deep, and I also bring steadiness and warmth. My hope is that your child, youth or family moves through life with more joy and flexibility, and relates to themselves and each other with more ease.

Outside the therapy room, I value family, nature and balance. I enjoy hiking with my labradoodle, swimming and exploring the many food options Vancouver has to offer.

“I help children and youth build happier, healthier, more authentic lives.”

Pamela Wallberg, MA, RCC