Registered Clinical Counsellor is a member of B.C. Association of Clinical Counsellors.  The Association has Code of Ethical Conduct and Standards of Clinical Practice, that are strictly upheld. 

The Association of American Marriage and Family Therapist strives to honor the public trust in marriage and family therapists by setting standards for ethical practice as described in the AAMFT Code of Ethics.

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It is my passion to work with families and children.  Witnessing my parents fight, as a young teenager, I was devastated that I could not do anything to resolve their conflicts.  Inadvertently, it became my inspiration to pursue a career in helping families. 

I obtained a Bachelor's degree in Family Studies and a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology.  A degree in Family Studies provides me the knowledge of family structure, intergenerational relations, financial management for family, whole life span development, sexuality, effective parenting, children with development disorder and counselling.  The MA Counselling Psychology program prepared me to be a highly skilled and competent psychotherapist; I studied various forms psychotherapies including individual, group and family/couple; psychiatric pharmacology; mental health assessment, diagnosis and treatment.

I have done extensive studying in children with autism and their behaviour and also had the opportunity to work as a behaviour interventionist. I also have strong interest in the area of sensory processing issues.  Children with sensory processing issues often appear to be, just to name a few, not listening, distractive, reactive, inactive, inconsistent level of functioning.  Several other mental health trainings such as cognitive-behaviour therapy for children and youth, early psychosis intervention and Positive Parenting Program (effective parenting to manage children with behavioural issues), provide me the knowledge and skills to help children of all ages and their parents/caregivers. Several years of working with children in a mental health setting also add to my knowledge and skills in my helping profession in assessment and treatment.

In order to help parents/caregivers/couples, I am also further trained in Gottman Marital Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples.  For individual therapeutic work, I have several therapeutic tools that I apply such as Emotional Freedom Technique for stress; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for anxiety, depression, eating disorder, anger and addictions; Focusing for healing past issues such as trauma, abuse, stress; One Eye Integration for various issues; Solution-Focused Therapy.  My approach is an integration of mind and body.  

-          blended families

-          marital/couple relationships

-          parent and child/teenager conflicts

-          parenting effectively

-          sibling rivalry

-          children behavioural problems

-          managing family financial stress

-          separation/divorce

-          extramarital issues - how to repair the marriage

-          sexuality - lack of intimacy

-          spousal substance/alcohol use

-          violence - physical/verbal/psychological

In my treatment of a families and couples, individual work may sometimes become necessary. 

-          stress

-          feeling depressed

-          anger

-          eating disorder

-          behavioural problems

-          self esteem

-          sleep problems

-          grief/bereavement

-          mood swings

-          post traumatic stress - e.g. car accidents

-          sexuality

-          chronic pain

-          addictions - alcohol, drugs, gambling, video games/internet

-          work - burnout/layoff/harassment/stress/dissatisfaction/relation difficulties/trauma

-          abuse - sexual/emotional/physical

I love gardening and it is a personal therapeutic tool for my own well being. 

. . . .     Grace Yong, MA, RCC, RMFT