Shelley Coates Counsellor

Meet Shelley Coates

Throughout my life, I have been intensely interested in the ways human beings interact with each other, especially in the non-verbal and subtle ways that couples communicate. Long before I became a registered counsellor, friends and colleagues would share their problems with me – helping them was something that I loved to do.

At the start of my counselling career, I worked with the BC Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BCSPCA), helping employees whose high-stress jobs were taking a toll on their relationships. During that time, I developed a special interest and expertise in helping people with emotionally demanding jobs improve their relationships.

Over the years, I have helped hundreds of individuals and couples heal their pain, change their negative patterns, and create the relationships and life they want. As a Registered Master Therapeutic Counsellor who specializes in the area of relationships, I have developed an approach and expertise that helps me to quickly identify the issues, suggest solutions, and work with clients towards real change.

I’m a relationship and couples counsellor with a passion for helping people get unstuck

I understand what it takes to make a love relationship succeed

Being a therapist fulfills a deep purpose in my life. I feel that in my own small way, I am helping to bring more compassion and empathy into the world, and contributing to the greater good. I have great empathy for the courage, honesty, understanding, and tolerance that is required to make a love relationship succeed. In the early years of my own marriage, my husband and I struggled – but with hard work, commitment, and the help of a couples therapist we created a happy, long-term marriage and family.
I believe humans struggle to be good, and that they do the best they can with the limits and level of awareness they have.
Shelley Coates Counsellor

Counselling training

  • Diploma in Professional Counselling, Vancouver College of Counsellor Training, Vancouver BC
  • Developmental Model in Couples and Relationship Counselling – Certificate
  • Relational Life Therapy Level 1
  • Critical Incident Stress Management – Certificate of Training
  • Awareness Integration Therapy – Gestalt 1 – Certificate
  • Awareness Integration Therapy – Gestalt – Certificate
  • Awareness Integration Therapy – Certificate 3

Counselling memberships

  • Member of the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada Registration # 1021
  • Registered Counsellor with the Crime Victim Services Program of British Columbia

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Ready to build a BETTER LOVE?

If you are ready to move beyond your relationship problems and create a better love, I offer both in-person and online counselling services, with offices in Ladner and White Rock, BC. Clients come to me from Ladner, Tsawwassen, North Delta, South Surrey, Richmond, and Langley – and meet me online from anywhere.

Appointment lengths and rates are shown in the first step of the online booking process.

Book an Appointment

Questions?

I offer a free, 15-minute consultation call. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Ready to build a BETTER LOVE?

If you are ready to move beyond your relationship problems and create a better love, I offer both in-person and online counselling services, with offices in Ladner and White Rock, BC. Clients come to me from Ladner, Tsawwassen, North Delta, South Surrey, Richmond, and Langley – and meet me online from anywhere.

Appointment lengths and rates are shown in the first step of the online booking process.

Book an Appointment

Questions?

I offer a free, 15-minute consultation call. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.