Ace-Competent Professionals
If you have any suggestions for doctors/counsellors/anything or feedback on those already listed, please let us know! Shoot me an email at ericajmulder@gmail.com. (I will always keep you anonymous)
If you already have a doctor/counsellor and want to explain asexuality to them, you can send them to this pdf.
Having a therapist that shares lived experiences can be very important. To help you find someone who shares those experiences, counsellors of colour have a ^ after their name and openly trans/non-binary therapists have a *.
Counsellors
Some of these therapists have been seen by local aces who’ve had good experiences and others have been recommended to us by other counsellors.
Lu Lam^* www.lulam.ca
Cost: $150 per 60min session
Locations:
Broadway and Cypress,
Main entrance flight of stairs, no elevator
Washrooms gendered, multi-stall
Broadway and Oak
Wheelchair accessible
Washrooms are single stall, gendered.
Matsui De Roo^* www.genderoo.com
Location: Chinatown
Cost: $175 per 50min session, has sliding scale options
Access Info: wheelchair accessible, scent-reduced space, the building has a non-automatic entrance door
Also supervises a community counselling program run by queer/trans graduate students for $60 per 50min session. www.genderoo.com/community-counselling-program/
Amber Louie^ www.amberlouie.com
Location: Chinatown
Cost: $225 per session for individual, $180 per session for couple
Access Info: gendered washrooms, non-automatic door, elevator, fragrance-free
Carsen Farmer www.dragonstonecounselling.ca/carsen
Location: Kitsilano
Cost: $120 per 50 min
Access Info: three stairs with handrails, washrooms are gender neutral, scent-reduced space
Vanessa Fernando^ www.vanessafernando.com
Location: Chinatown
Cost: $130 per 50 min, $170 per 90 min
Access Info: wheelchair accessible and scent reduced
Daley Laing* www.fireseedfacilitation.org
Location: Online or over the phone
Cost: Pay-what-you-can
Bridgid McGowan www.bridgidmcgowan.com
Location: Close to the Commercial-Broadway skytrain station
Edward Sandberg edwardsandberg.com
Location: Kitsilano
Cost: $150 per 55min session, sliding scale down to $90
Dragonstone Counselling www.dragonstonecounselling.ca
Location: Kitsilano
Access Info: three stairs with handrails, washrooms are gender neutral, scent-reduced space
Large(ish) practice with many folks working out of it.
Cora Bilsker www.nestedheartcounselling.com
Location: Downtown Vancouver and in Victoria, BC
Cost: 120$ per hour, has a limited number of sliding scale spaces
Access Info: Offers Skype counseling sessions
Rena Iwasaki^ www.jerichocounselling.com/counsellors/rena-iwasaki/
Location: West Broadway and Downtown Vancouver
Services available in both English and Japanese
Roya Vojdani https://royavojdani.com/
Location: virtual and phone counselling
Cost: $147 per 50 min
Lori Finklea www.lorifinkleacounselling.com
Location: Fairview
Cost: $120 per hour
Access Info: Elevator available
Doctors and Specialists
Location: Ladner