Our Vision, Mission, & Culture
Like the ripples from an ocean wave, we create resilient communities by transforming individuals and couples’ emotions and their experience of self and others in the context of a safe, caring, and supportive environment.
A Destination We Aim for, Our Path to Get There, and
Our Way of Being
Vision: Our Destination
Our vision is to create thriving and resilient communities by transforming the way individuals, couples, and families experience, express, and relate to their emotions and each other, helping them live happier and more fulfilled lives.
Mission: Our Path
Oceanside Psychology Group is a psychologist-led private practice committed to providing high-quality, evidence-based counselling and psychotherapy to individuals, couples, and families across British Columbia. Our services are grounded in the belief that in order to change emotions that are distressing or unhelpful, we need to arrive at them to leave them and feel them to heal them. Our caring and dedicated clinicians offer a safe, warm, and caring environment that supports and empowers clients to have more of the emotions they want and less of the emotions they don’t want, and to change the way they experience themselves and others. In an ocean of empathy, we create change.
Culture: Our Way of Being
We strive to promote a culture grounded in caring, supportive, trusting, and collaborative relationships with our clients, and among our clinicians and staff. We value working in collaboration with other clinicians, professionals, and organizations to ensure that our clients receive the highest quality of care. As a group, we are committed to providing accessible, responsive, and exemplary services.
Central to our work with clients, our clinicians are united in the belief that the relationship between therapist and client is rooted in safety. We foster safety in a number of ways:
Presence & Authenticity
Therapeutic presence means fully engaging and immersing ourselves in your experience – being there with and for you. We approach our encounters in a way that is real and authentic, valuing sincerity and transparency in our relationship with you.
Empathy & Validation
As we listen to you share your stories, we’re listening to the emotions, longings, and unmet needs behind your words. We’re actively working with you to unravel the emotional logic in your emotions and make sense of your feelings and actions. Every emotion is logical when we understand it and distill it to its core. In our encounters, we want you to feel seen, understood, and heard.
Acceptance & Warmth
We appreciate the vulnerability involved in the therapeutic process and that it can be scary – at times, terrifying – to confront and share painful and sometimes shameful parts of our experience. As human beings, this is a shared experience for all of us. We value providing relationships in which people feel fully accepted and prized for who they are and for the lived experiences they’ve had.
Honouring Diversity
We honour the inherent value that each person brings to the therapeutic encounter, including their unique life story, experience, perspective, and emotional landscape. We recognize how societal oppression contributes to the emotions people experience, how they experience and express their emotions, their views of self and others, and the way they relate to the world.
Collaboration
Collaboration means that we join with you to understand what hurts, what you need, and how to achieve your goals. We do not operate from an expert stance, but rather view clients as experts on their own experience. You know what hurts. We provide an accepting, safe climate in which you can explore your experience and offer ways of working to help you where you are hurting or stuck.
Integrity & Respect
We believe that acting with integrity involves operating in an open, honest, and reliable way. At Oceanside Psychology Group, we strive to be transparent with our fees, policies, and procedures, so that we ensure you don’t encounter any surprises. We offer support in finding other providers if we’re not the right fit. Above all, we want you to get the right care, at the right time. You are our priority.
Every day we work with clients, we are touched by their experiences and inspired by their resilience. We are passionate about the work we do and invite you to contact us if we can be of support to you.
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