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Kelly Adler and Associates is a New Westminster counselling practice run by a registered clinical counsellor with fifteen years of experience, working alongside other counsellors, social workers, and dieticians. The team focuses on trauma, eating disorders, parenting, and reproductive mental health.
Kelly Adler has been practising as a registered clinical counsellor for more than fifteen years, with specific training in Lifespan Integration and Emotion Focused Family Therapy, and her work sits at the intersection of trauma, reproductive mental health, and eating disorders. The practice has grown into a small team of registered clinical counsellors, social workers, and dieticians who each bring their own specialty areas, including parenting support, body image work, mood disorders, life transitions, and stress management. Sessions are available for children, teens, adults, and families, with both in-person and online formats so geography does not become a barrier to consistent care across a school year, a pregnancy, or a difficult first year with a new baby.
The approach is grounded in the belief that healing happens through relationships, families, and community rather than in isolation, which is why the team works so often with parents and adolescents alongside the individual adult clients who make up the bulk of the caseload. Reproductive mental health is a particular focus, covering postpartum depression, fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, and the mood shifts that come with perimenopause, while the eating disorder work pairs counselling with the dieticians on the team for clients who need nutritional support alongside the talking work. Sessions are structured around the goals that the client sets at the start, and the counsellors check in regularly about whether the work is moving in the right direction rather than running on autopilot week after week. Kelly Adler and Associates Counselling is based in New Westminster and serves clients from Burnaby, Coquitlam, Surrey, Vancouver, and the surrounding communities, with North Vancouver and North Shore residents booking sessions online or making the trip across the bridge for in-person work that benefits from a quieter setting than a downtown practice.
Common reasons people reach out include anxiety that has started to affect sleep or work, postpartum depression, disordered eating patterns, fertility challenges, relationship strain between partners or between a parent and a teenager, and the sense of being stuck after a major life transition.
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