Marlise Meilan, Counselor in Vancouver, V6K1Y7

Marlise Meilan, Registered Clinical Counsellor

Profession(s):
Counseling Psychology, Psychotherapy, Counselling
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Primary License:
Registered Clinical Counsellor - 3173

My Approach to Helping

Marlise assists individuals and couples experiencing heartbreak, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. She provides counselling and therapy with kindness in mind, and is known for listening with warmth, clarity and openness.

- Coping with problems
- Recognizing habitual patterns
- Exploring worry, sadness & loss
- Resolving relationship difficulties
- Reducing stress and anxiety
- Cultivating creativity
- Healing broken hearts
- Discerning life direction
- Finding richness in relationship
- Fostering self-esteem
- Supporting role and life changes
- Recovering from traumatic events
- Increasing mindfulness and relaxation

We can explore what is going on in your whole life: your body, heart, and mind, as well as your family, work, and community relationships. Therapy is a time to move through difficulties and to connect with what is basically good about you. Together we can get to the heart of matters!

Marlise is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors, an open-hearted, open-minded (non-dogmatic, non-preachy) Buddhist therapist, and a well-rounded, grounded Yoga Psychotherapist with over ten years as a Certified Yoga Teacher. Additionally, she is a published author and a graduate of the Visual Arts program from Emily Carr University of Art & Design. She is married and biracial, and believes that one of her greatest strengths as a therapist lay in her extensive experience as a client.

You might be asking yourself, Do I have to be a Buddhist? Absolutely not! Many of her clients are not people who think of themselves as Buddhist. Most simply appreciate that she is coming from a whole-person, whole-life perspective that works to resolve difficulties while emphasizing the sanity in people and what is also good in their lives instead of looking for what is wrong with them.

Marlise offers in-person, phone, and Skype sessions. Online booking is available through her website.

(In case you are wondering, her name is pronounced like: Mar-leez May-lon.)

More Info About My Practice

What people are saying about Marlise:

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
Individual adult: $125 per 60-minute session
Couples (two adults, can be partners, friends or family): $135 per 60-minute session
Students and those in financial need (low-income): $100/individuals, $110/couples per 60-minute session
*All fees are subject to applicable taxes.

More info about Marlise:

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. She has been a Certified Yoga Teacher for over 10 years.

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. She has experience providing therapeutic support for a broad range of people and concerns, including many healthcare professionals such as other psychotherapists, massage therapists, medical professionals, yoga teachers, and various kinds of caregivers.