Priya DeSilva (RSW, RCC)
Current Bio: Priya is registered both with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (RCC) and the BC College of Social Workers (RSW) and has over 20 years of experience working with individuals and families in various ages and stages of their lives.
Priya is passionate about helping clients experience growth, repair and transformation and wants to help them come into more fullness in themselves and their relationships. Priya is intentional to provide a safe, non-judgmental space to explore feelings, thoughts, patterns and behaviours to foster awareness, understanding, skills and change.
She has experience working through issues related to anxiety, depression, grief, loss, change, generational trauma, bicultural identity, adjustment to a medical diagnosis, caregiver stress/burnout, cognitive changes, aging, chronic illness and interpersonal/family issues.
Priya and her clients will take steps to explore old patterns, create new narratives, challenge old systems and ways of functioning that no longer serve them or the people in their lives
Priya draws from a trauma-informed, systems, intersectional and developmental lens. Her approach is anti-oppressive, strengths-based and person and family centred .
Cultural Identity/Lived Experience & Language Info? for example: South Asian & Second Generation South Asian
Who
- Individual Adults
- Families
What
- Aging
- Anxiety & Panic
- Bi/Multicultural Identity
- Caregiver Burnout
- Chronic Pain & Illness
- Family & Relationship Issues
- Fertility, Pregnancy & Postpartum Wellness
- Grief & Loss
- Interpersonal Issues
- Menopause
- Parenting & Parent Coaching
- Self-Esteem
- Stress & Burnout
How (no data yet)
- AEDP
- Attachment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Training
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Mindfulness-Based Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- NeurOptimal Neurofeedback Training
- Polyvagal Therapy
- Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Approaches
- Somatic Experiencing
- Trauma-Informed Therapy
- Walk & Talk Therapy