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COUNSELLING
Willful Minds
Counsellor
FROM
Vancouver, BC
JOINED IN
2019
SERVICES
10
About Willful Minds
His expansive career experiences allow him to tailor therapy to the needs of the client, whether it is for crisis intervention or long-term therapy.
Ernest has worked with Homewood Health (Employee Assistance Program) for a decade with the most recent role as their staff clinician. In addition, he would be seeing private clients through Willful Minds.
In 2017 he received the award for Excellence in Counselling from the CCPA after helping thousands of clients annually.
Since 2006, Ernest has worked with diverse populations of clients, addressing many different topics. Ernest is able to help clients achieve their goals, stay on track, and grow in the process.
Along with individual and couples counselling, he has debriefed individuals and groups after traumatic incidents and provides psycho-education to the general public, sharing information about mental health.
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FROM
Vancouver, BC
JOINED IN
2019
SERVICES
10
About Willful Minds
His expansive career experiences allow him to tailor therapy to the needs of the client, whether it is for crisis intervention or long-term therapy.
Ernest has worked with Homewood Health (Employee Assistance Program) for a decade with the most recent role as their staff clinician. In addition, he would be seeing private clients through Willful Minds.
In 2017 he received the award for Excellence in Counselling from the CCPA after helping thousands of clients annually.
Since 2006, Ernest has worked with diverse populations of clients, addressing many different topics. Ernest is able to help clients achieve their goals, stay on track, and grow in the process.
Along with individual and couples counselling, he has debriefed individuals and groups after traumatic incidents and provides psycho-education to the general public, sharing information about mental health.
Practitioner Bio
Ernest Chen is a bilingual – Cantonese and English – Registered Clinical Counsellor with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellor (BCACC) and a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA). Ernest holds a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from Adler University, Vancouver. In addition, he has his certifications in Observed and Experiential Integration (OEI), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Clinical Hypnosis (Hypnotherapy), Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM), and Existential Analysis (Psychotherapist).
You will find him in his humble Kitsilano, Vancouver clinic where the journey begins.
Typically, Ernest employs an existential-humanistic approach to therapy, guiding a client through to the core of the issue rather than symptom management. Depending on the presenting concern and client’s comfort he may use other techniques such as Solution-Focused Therapy, Hypnotherapy, EMDR, OEI, or CBT and Mindfulness.
Ernest is passionate about the well-being of the mind and soul thus continuously educates himself in the most effective ways of helping people navigate through challenges. Besides formal training, Ernest’s own life journey has become his laboratory of innovation as he manages life transitions, grief and loss, and even death itself using many tools and philosophies shared with clients. Many would say that Ernest has an old soul with much vitality for life.
Through his life’s journey, Ernest has learned that life is full of surprises and one can face that reality being fully present or one can choose to face it later when it is much more complicated but life never presents a challenge without a solution either from within or from the outside. Using his knowledge, creative alternatives, and talk therapy he helps clients search for this solution.
Cancellation Policy
48 hours notice
Hours
| Sunday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Monday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Tuesday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Wednesday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Thursday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Friday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Saturday | 9 AM to 9 PM |
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