Who I Work With

Many of the people who work with me are reflective adults dealing with difficulties that are hard to name clearly. On the outside they may look capable, responsible, and high functioning. Internally, they may feel tangled, exhausted, or caught in patterns that standard advice has not helped them understand.

My practice is especially suited to reflective adults dealing with complexity who want more than symptom management alone. This includes many people who are gifted, neurodivergent, or those people who find that common explanations do not quite fit their experience, and who benefit from therapy that is careful, thoughtful, and non-formulaic.

People often seek out therapy because of anxiety, depression, burnout, relationship strain, or a difficult life transition. Those concerns matter. In our work, we often look not only at the symptoms themselves, but at the deeper patterns, pressures, and developmental histories that help explain why things keep repeating.

This work may be a good fit if you want therapy that helps you:

•  Understand recurring patterns more clearly and respond to them differently
•  Make deeper sense of anxiety, depression, burnout, or relationship strain
•  Have your complexity taken seriously without it being flattened into a standard formula
•  Build greater clarity, emotional steadiness, and a more coherent way forward

How I work.

I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor with more than twelve years of experience working in public mental health, community agencies, and private practice across British Columbia. Over that time, I’ve learned that many people are helped most when their lives are understood carefully, in context, and without reducing their difficulties to a quick formula.

My approach is collaborative and thoughtful, and not one-size-fits-all. I take time to understand the larger pattern — how temperament, development, relationships, work, stress, and broader life circumstances may all be shaping what you are dealing with. My aim is to help you understand yourself more clearly, to become steadier within yourself, and move toward a better direction in your life.

I work exclusively online via secure video call, so you can access therapy from anywhere in BC. My approach is integrative and evidence-informed. I draw from CBT, attachment-based, developmental, emotion-focused, psychodynamic, relational, and trauma-informed approaches as they fit your needs.

Contact me for a free 20-minute counselling consultation if you would like to see whether this approach is a good fit for you.

Common Reasons People Reach Out

People often contact me because of anxiety, depression, burnout, relationship strain, a difficult life transition, or a persistent sense that something in their lives is not working.

Sometimes the concern is clear. Sometimes it is harder to name. In therapy, we can look not only at the symptoms themselves, but at the deeper patterns and pressures that may be keeping them in place.

The aim is not simply short-term relief, but greater clarity, steadiness, and a more workable way forward.

Contact me for a free 20-minute counselling consultation.

Contact Grant McMahon

To set up an appointment or to book a free 20-minute consultation to determine if the way I work will be a good fit for you, contact me by phone at 778-865-4908; by email at therapy@grantmcmahon.ca or through the contact form below.