Heather Bach, MA, CCC | Clinical Director | Executive Performance Counselling & Therapy | North Vancouver
Heather Bach is the founder and Clinical Director of Bach Counselling Group, with over 40 years of clinical practice specialising in trauma, attachment, anxiety, and relationships — and a particular focus on executives and leaders navigating the less visible costs of high performance.
Before founding BCG, Heather built her clinical foundation in some of the most demanding practice environments in the field — working with high-complexity populations across institutional and community settings in British Columbia, supervising clinical teams, and designing and delivering specialised treatment programmes where the stakes were highest and the clinical demands most acute. She developed the North Shore Program for Children Affected by Family Violence and co-developed the Kelowna Trauma Program for marginalized women. It is this depth of experience that informs the precision she brings to every client she works with today.
Heather developed BCG’s Executive Performance programme to address what high-functioning professionals rarely feel safe bringing to a standard therapy setting: burnout masked as drive, anxiety performing as perfectionism, relationship deterioration beneath a high-functioning exterior, and the particular isolation that comes with leadership. This work draws on deep expertise in trauma, couples therapy, attachment, and complex family systems developed over a career of continuous clinical practice.
With her Master of Arts in Psychology and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, Heather holds a certification in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and is a qualified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Her clinical work integrates advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) — which she has practised and supervised for decades — alongside professional training in Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Bowen Family Systems Theory, and the Satir Transformational Systemic model, applied through a trauma-informed, attachment-based lens.
She is a recognised media expert and speaker, having been interviewed across print, radio, and television, and has presented to government bodies and large organisations on the impact of trauma, vicarious trauma, and crisis response.
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Client Focus
- Executives & Leaders
- Individuals
- Couples
- Families
- High-Performance Professionals
Specialties
- Executive Performance & Leadership Stress
- Anxiety & Depression
- Trauma & PTSD
- Couples & Relationship Conflict
- Burnout & Executive Stress
- Separation & Divorce
- ADHD
- Family Systems
Approach
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
- EMDR
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Mindfulness-Based
- Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Bowen Family Systems
- Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
- Trauma-Informed
- Attachment-Based
- Solution-Focused
