Building strength for life and love
Clinical & relationship therapy for individuals, couples, and families.
Hello!
I'm Grace
Registered Clinical Counsellor and Marriage & Family Therapist
Build the life you want
Grace McDonald Counselling is located in White Rock, BC. I help you have more compassion for yourself and increase your ability to deeply connect with other people.
We work together to identify your goals, make sense of your challenges, and make small changes toward building the life you want.
My core services
I work with individuals, couples, families, and parents.
Grace provides clinical and relationship therapy to couples and individuals, in person and virtually across British Columbia. She supports people to feel more connected to themselves, their partners, and the world around them. She also presents Parenting Workshops which focus on strengthening the parent-child connection.
Couples Counselling
Enhance connection, communication, and self-regulation with Imago Relationship Therapy.
Individual Counselling
Increase self-awareness and self-regulation using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory & Imago Relationship Therapy.
Parenting Support
Strengthen the Parent-Child connection so that children evolve into relationally healthy, self-actualized adults using Imago Parenting and other current research on child development.
My expertise & approach
Clinical & Relationship Therapy
As a Registered Marriage & Family Therapist I support families, couples, and individuals in my South Surrey community. I am passionate about helping people to more positively perceive themselves, their lives, and their relationships. In particular, I provide tools in dealing with communication, conflict management, and self-regulation.
Effective Communication
Connection
Conflict Management
Personal Growth
Parenting
Emotion & Stress Regulation
“ Grace has taught me how to see other people in a different way. To be patient and understanding of other people’s feelings is a way for me to have happiness in my own life. Thank you for helping us learn how to communicate better and stay connected. “
“The Imago method has been powerful in helping us grow together as individuals and most importantly as a couple.”
“Grace is warm, patient, and understanding. She makes you feel comfortable and shows she really cares. I really appreciate her patience with us.”
Grace has helped us come to a deeper understanding of ourselves through a process where we are integral to each other’s progress.”
“Grace showed us the way to communicate with each other that embraced our differences while at the same time helping us gain insight into how and why we react the way we do.”
“Grace is a gentle person who listens and appreciates the concerns of her clients.”
“Grace is an exceptional therapist and has been so effective in helping my partner and I relate to each other better. Her communication strategies, although new to us at first, have become useful daily tools for each of us. We both really love the practical approach that she offers and it has brought about a lot of personal growth for both of us in terms of how we can better understand our needs, motivations and the processes we go through both consciously and unconsciously. Thank you Grace!”
“Grace creates a comfortable and supportive environment and a respectful relationship with me as a client which I appreciate. I feel listened to, and it is helpful to me to have my thoughts reflected back and/or reframed for analysis and understanding which helps me to move forward as I look to work on issues that have crept up in my life.”
“Grace is a fantastic therapist. She has changed my life In more ways than I can count. Couldn’t imagine my life without her in it.”
“Big thanks to both Grace and Mindy. Your workshop has armed us with a number of tools and knowledge to proceed as parents with confidence as well as reinforced the aspects of parenting the we were winning. The subject matter was informative and given in a environment that felt safe and relatable.”
“Grace and Mindy were great! Loved the examples and tools they presented and the way they did it. Everything is useful and it’s exciting to put everything into practice to become a “good enough” parent!”
“Me and my partner worked with Grace on pre-marriage counselling for us to identify things we need to work on. We learned so much more than I expected, including agreeing on relationship visions, setting up a conflict agreement, and tools on how to talk to each other using the imago dialogue. We got growth assignments after each session which helped us carry forward what we learned into our everyday lives.”
“Big thanks to both Grace and Mindy. Your workshop has armed us with a number of tools and knowledge to proceed as parents with confidence as well as reinforced the aspects of parenting the we were winning. The subject matter was informative and given in a environment that felt safe and relatable.”
“Grace and Mindy were great! Loved the examples and tools they presented and the way they did it. Everything is useful and it’s exciting to put everything into practice to become a “good enough” parent!”
Grace supports all people in British Columbia
Grace McDonald provides both in-person and zoom counselling, welcoming all people in Greater Vancouver including Surrey, White Rock, Burnaby, Richmond, New Westminster, Delta, Coquitlam, Langley, Abbotsford, Mission, and Maple Ridge. Zoom counselling is a great option for anyone who lives in smaller communities in British Columbia. Contact Grace for a complimentary 15 minute phone consultation to ensure we are a good fit
First Steps
How do I get started?
Book Appointment
Once we have done the complimentary session, If we are a good fit, we will schedule our first appointment.
First Session!
We will go over your concerns, goals, and expectations, and you will leave with a sense of hope and connection.
Once you become a client, you get access to lots of FREE clinical and relationship resources to help you at home. Fill out the contact form below to schedule a consultation with Grace.