Therapist Profile

My Approach to Helping

Therapy with Kindness in Mind. Be heard - whether inspired or in need.

Marlise Meilan, MA, is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, and a Restorative Process Therapist (RPT). She assists individuals, couples, and groups in transforming heartbreak, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief, and works together with her clients to cultivate greater self-awareness and excellent mental health.

Marlise provides counselling and therapy with kindness in mind. She is known for her warmth, clarity and openness, and provides guidance for deeper personal insight, better ways of understanding and coping with problems, and improved relationships.

As a graduate of the three-year Masters of Counseling Psychology: Contemplative Psychotherapy program from Naropa University in Boulder, CO, Marlise is a Contemplative Psychotherapist. Naropa is an accredited university founded by Tibetan-Buddhist meditation teacher, Chogyam Trungpa. Contemplative Psychotherapy is a melding of client-centered counselling with Buddhist psychology, and requires the therapist to participate in intensive meditation practice.

In addition to her Contemplative approach to counselling, Marlise also provides Restorative Process Therapy, which is a gentle and effective way of working through psychological issues using relaxing yoga, breath, mindfulness and counselling techniques.

Marlise has attended professional training and workshops in healing trauma, mindfulness techniques, somatic and body-centered psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology, Hakomi, couples & group psychotherapies, and professional ethics.

Additionally, Marlise is a published author, certified hatha yoga teacher, and a graduate of the Visual Arts program from Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is married, biracial, and believes that one of her greatest strengths as a therapist lay in her extensive experience as a client.

Please visit http://tiny.cc/Restful to read her article entitled Rest and its Centrality to Psychotherapy (originally published in the Summer 2008 issue of Hakomi Forum, Issues 19, 20, 21, edited by Greg Johanson, Ph.D) to get a taste of Restorative Process Therapy and Contemplative Psychotherapy.

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TESTIMONIALS
I found Marlise to have extraordinary skills. She is clearly in the top echelon of (those) whom I have supervised in my extensive experience. Marlise demonstrated well-developed assessment skills, including a very fine sensitivity and intuition toward her clients. The clients at this site presented a variety of problems, and Marlise was able to work with all of them. She has a warm and caring, and professional demeanor, as well as a calm presence, which helped her clients feel comfortable within the therapeutic relationship. Her sense of timing of therapeutic interventions was especially noteworthy and very effective. As she approached termination her clients were very articulate in their appreciation of the work they had done together. - Josephine Bynder, Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 50 years of clinical experience

Marlise has demonstrated exemplary warmth and skill as a therapist. Her client-centered, compassionate approach has assisted many people through our counseling center...She is friendly, well-organized, innovative, and demonstrates a very high degree of professionalism with a great sense of humour and creativity. - Alexandra Shenpen, Ph.D, Licensed Professional Counselor

I feel like you have given myself back to me. I trust myself and I love myself and you have given me the confidence to do that. You have given me a friend in me. I simply feel grateful to have had the chance to know you and have you know me. So in the simplest words I know... Thank you for the greatest gift ever. - from a client

I visit Marlise Meilan, RCC for her unique Restorative Process Therapy (RPT). Her calm, inviting manor instantly put me at ease during our first session. As she led me through restorative yoga poses and guided meditations, I felt a stronger connection between the stress in my mind and how I manifest it in my body. I became aware of tension I was gripping or holding unconsciously, and by the end of the session was able to let it go. Entering into visualizations in this manor has allowed me to obtain greater clarity on my life, my concerns, and my overall wellbeing. Thank you Marlise, for your unique and gentle approach to therapy. - Dr. Robin Armstrong, Chiropractor & Yoga Instructor

FEES (Pro-rated according to the fee schedule set by the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors)
Free 30-minute initial consultation
Individuals $125 per 60-minute session
Couples $135 per 60-minute session
Students and those in financial need $95 and up (sliding scale)
*All fees are subject to applicable taxes.