Michael deBoer is a therapist based in Vancouver, BC, providing individual, relationship, family, and group therapy. Drawing on his past leadership work in corporate finance and international poverty relief, as well as his clinical experience and graduate-level studies in psychotherapy, Michael understands the heavy strains of trauma, life stressors, interpersonal relating, and also the profound capacity humans have to adapt and thrive through adversity. Michael has also performed improv comedy across North America for several decades, and as a result brings a stance of active listening, present-moment awareness, and psychological flexibility into the therapy room.

Michael is committed to (and delights in) inclusivity, serving clients of diverse culture, gender, age, and value structure in a non-judgemental, compassionate, and person-centered way, rooted in deep respect for each person’s unique experiences.

Michael is thankful for the privilege of living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

Michael is a registered counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) and holds a Master of Counselling degree from The City University of Seattle.

Michael deBoer is a therapist based in Vancouver, BC, providing individual, relationship, family,... Read More