Grant McMahon: Counsellor and Psychotherapist
I’m a Registered Clinical Counsellor who works best with adults dealing with complexity that can be hard to name clearly. Many of the people who work with me are reflective, capable, and responsible on the outside, yet inwardly feel tangled, exhausted, or caught in patterns that standard advice or short-term symptom strategies have not helped them understand. My practice is especially suited to people who want more than symptom management alone, including many adults who are gifted, neurodivergent, or have been looking for a way of understanding themselves that feels more accurate and less flattening.
My Background
I have more than twelve years of experience working across public mental health, community agencies, and private practice in British Columbia. Over that time, I’ve learned that meaningful change depends less on forcing people into a formula and more on understanding them carefully, in context, and at depth.
I’ve worked in settings including Fraser Health, Family Services of Greater Vancouver, and private practice. I hold a Master of Counselling from City University of Seattle and I am registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC #11135). I am also a registered provider with BC CVAP, the ICBC Recovery Provider Network, SunLife, and Medavie Blue Cross.
My work is integrative and evidence-informed, grounded especially in attachment and developmental psychology, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, and practical skills-based approaches when they are useful. I stay actively engaged in professional development, but I try to work in a way that is thoughtful rather than driven by formulas, serious without rigidity, and responsive to the actual person in front of me.
Why Work With Me?
What I do best is help people make deeper sense of themselves without reducing them to a diagnosis, a symptom list, or a standard script. I take time to understand the larger pattern — how temperament, development, relationships, work, stress, family history, and broader life circumstances may all be shaping what they are dealing with.
I am often most useful when a person’s experience has not been well captured by standard labels, when their challenges have proven more complex than they first appeared to be, or when a person is not only looking for relief but also for clarity, steadiness, and a more coherent way forward.
My aim is not to make people more conventional. It is to help them understand themselves more accurately, relate to their lives more intentionally, and make changes that are more workable and more true.
How I Work
My approach is collaborative, integrative, and evidence-informed. I draw from attachment and developmental psychology, psychodynamic therapy, mindfulness, and practical skills-based approaches when useful. Therapy works best, in my view, when a person does not have to perform, simplify themselves, or fit neatly into someone else’s model.
I work exclusively online via secure video call, which allows clients to access therapy from anywhere in British Columbia. Online work can be focused, flexible, and effective, and it often suits people who prefer the privacy and steadiness of working from their own environment.
Beyond Therapy
When I’m not working with clients, I value family life, time outdoors, and the kinds of places and practices that support steadiness, perspective, and clear thought. Those parts of my life are not separate from how I work; they help shape the patience, groundedness, and seriousness I try to bring to therapy.
Let’s Connect
If you think we may be a good fit working together, contact me for a free 20-minute consultation.