Dr. Guest has worked with adults, adolescents couples families communities and organizations. She believes in utilizing evidence based interventions grounded in research. Her approach involves an integration of several therapeutic frameworks to help people and organizations manage external and internal obstacles challenges and transitions.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Centre of Vancouver, we use compassionate, scientifically supported treatments to help people achieve goals that are important to them and increase the quality of their lives. Our clinicians provide evidencebased individual, group, and family services, and we continually evaluate the quality of these services. We have a full DBT program, including individual therapy, telephone consultation, skills training groups, and a therapist consultation team.The founders of the DBT Centre of Vancouver completed 2year postdoctoral fellowships with Dr. Marsha Linehan, who developed DBT. Although we specialize in the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder and other associated problems, we also have extensive training in providing evidencebased treatment for a variety of other problems.
We all face difficult moments in life, times that push us to stretch and grow in new ways. When they occur, therapy can bring perspective, renew hope, improve coping, and help you gain greater meaning in life. I have over 25 years experience as a registered psychologist in the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley area, helping people with anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, grief, trauma, life transitions and more. I view psychotherapy as a partnership in which we work together to understand your problems and find solutions. Where current concerns are front and centre, we look at developing fresh ways of understanding, coping with or changing the situation. Where past experiences are getting in your way, we work to help you let go of the things you need to and move forward.
I have training in psychodynamic, interpersonal, experiential, cognitive-behavioural, and dialectical behavioral therapies.
I am an experienced Downtown West-End/Coal Harbour Vancouver psychologist, educator and writer who has dedicated my life to optimal health and emotional well-being through self-care. As I empower myself, I share my knowledge and the practical skills I use daily. As a result, those who consult me learn to empower themselves and, therefore, have more fulfilling life experiences. My commitment to my own empowerment inspires and motivates clients to make similar choices to heal from past and current traumas. Clients also recover from the anxiety, depression, fear, helplessness and the reduced self-esteem that trauma leaves in its wake so as to live more successfully and joyfully in the present as well as the future.
I will assist you to free yourself from limiting thoughts, feelings, and dysfunctional behaviour and replace these with emotions and actions that lead to more meaningful and fulfilling experiences at work, in your personal relationships and creative endeavours.
Dr Michael Elterman received his PhD in Clinical Psychology in 1980 from Queen's University. He did a Fellowship at the University of Utah Medical Centre and has been Senior Psychologist at Vancouver Health Department and Director of Psychology at Vancouver General Hospital. He has been doing family law assessments for 35 years which is now his primary area of practice. He was Consultant to the Attorney General of BC on family law cases for 20 years. He also does court assessments in some criminal matters and is a Parenting Coordinator and has a number of clients he sees for psychotherapy. He was awarded the status of Fellow by the American College of Forensic Psychology. Dr Elterman is married and has 3 adult sons.
Using a psychoeducational model of change, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Interpersonal Therapy, I assist clients in gaining new understandings of themselves and others, improved emotional and physiological responses, and new skills and behav