Brenda Vega, MA Cand. | Intern Counsellor | | Anxiety, Depression & Life Transitions | North Vancouver or virtual.
Whether it’s anxiety that won’t switch off, a relationship that’s struggling, grief that has reshaped daily life, or the slow realization that you’ve been meeting focused on others needs and lost track of your own. Brenda works with women, adults, and youth to move through anxiety, depression, grief, life transitions, relationship challenges, burnout, and questions of identity, self-worth, and purpose in a pace that feels safe, on goals that are yours.
Brenda’s work is primarily centred on Person-Centered Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy, a research-backed, relationship-centred approach that helps you understand the emotional patterns underneath conflict, distance, and disconnection, and build closer, more secure relationships with the people who matter most. Alongside it she draws on Cognitive Behavioural, Narrative, and Solution-Focused approaches within a trauma-informed, somatic, and culturally responsive framework. She tailors counselling to what each client actually needs. Sessions often include mindfulness and body-based tools that help you feel calmer and assist in building skills to feel more grounded.
Brenda also serves as a Senior Crisis Service Responder, supporting people through acute distress and their hardest moments. That work has sharpened a strength clients feel quickly: the ability to stay calm and present with difficult emotions, think clearly under pressure, and help clients find a way forward when things feel unmanageable.
Brenda is completing her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology.
Brenda sees clients under clinical supervision at BCG’s North Vancouver office and offers virtual counselling throughout BC.
Client Focus
- Youth
- Adults
- Women
Specialties
- Life Transitions
- Relationship Issues
- Adult Child/Parent Conflict and Cut Off
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Grief & Loss
- Trauma
- Stress Management & Burnout
- Identity & Personal Growth
Approach
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Narrative Therapy
- Somatic and Mindfulness-Informed
- Trauma-Informed
- Strengths-Based
- Adult Attachment
- Solution-Focused