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Ryan Dielschneider

M.C., B.A. Canadian Certified Counsellor #8002. (he/him)

As a clinical counsellor, Ryan strives to combine a gentle, person-centered style with actively teaching you evidence-based strategies in every session. His hope is that he can provide you with a safe, casual time and space to process your thoughts and feelings while also connecting you with research-supported ideas and techniques from psychology that will be practically helpful in managing your symptoms or improving your life between sessions. Ryan’s clients usually tell him that he’s generally easy-going, nonjudgmental, and humorous*, but he can switch and quickly become serious, intellectual, and educational when needed.

Outside of counselling, Ryan loves dogs, being in nature, trying new foods, playing video games, watching drag performances, listening to true crime podcasts, and reading.

*Note: Open to playful humour in the counselling space, but not necessarily a funny comedian myself!

Current hourly rate: $150
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Ryan Dielschneider

Availability Status

Accepting new clients by request only

Schedule

Saturday & Sunday only

Populations Served

Children 14+, no couples

Employee & Family Assistance Program (EFAP)

Accepts City EFAP

Ryan Dielschneider

Areas of Interests:

  • Anxiety, depression, and stress
  • Young adults and adolescents
  • Trauma and grief resolution
  • Addictions and health psychology
  • Career counselling and life transitions
  • LGBTQ, gender, and sexuality issues
  • Empowerment, minority stress, and undoing victim-blaming

Training & Certifications:

  • MBSR Intensive: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
  • EMDR: A Rapid, Safe, and Proven Treatment for Trauma
  • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for Substance Abuse, Eating Disorders, Anxiety, Depression, Self-Injury, PTSD, Psychosis, and More
  • Schema Therapy: Proven Techniques
  • Emotionally-Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT): Attachment-Based Interventions
  • Blanket Exercise: Decolonizing Canadian Indigenous History (Kairos)
  • IATP Clinical Trauma Course: Triphasic Model
  • Breaking the Silence Conference on Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
  • Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) Course (Med Univ of South Carolina)
  • CBT Workshop: Targeted Mood-Specific Skills Using MOM2 (Dr. Padesky)
  • NACAC 5-Day Adoption Conference: New Hope for Our Children

Therapeutic Approaches:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing 14+ (EMDR)

Favourite Quote

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity … Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.”

- Brené Brown