FROM SURVIVAL TO SECURITY: Rooted in CONNECTION
Therapy for Teens & Adults
Down-to-earth virtual therapy across Ontario for anxiety, trauma, grief and overwhelm, using Emotion-Focused Therapy.
About Stacey Van Riel, MSW, RSW
15+ years of experience in mental health support
At Van Riel Counselling, I provide virtual therapy across Ontario as a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist. My work is grounded in Emotion-Focused Therapy and goes beyond simply managing symptoms. Together, we look at the emotions, experiences, and patterns that may still be shaping how you feel, cope, and connect with others. I support teens and adults with concerns such as anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, and emotional overwhelm in a warm, supportive online space.
Counselling I offer:
I support teens and adults with a wide range of emotional and life experiences, including:
- Anxiety, depression, and emotional overwhelm
- Trauma, painful life experiences, and long-standing survival patterns
- Grief, loss, and major life changes
- Self-worth, self-criticism, and shame
- Family and relationship patterns
- Identity, belonging, and feeling misunderstood
- Neurodiversity and feeling like you move through the world differently
- Workplace stress, burnout, and caregiving strain
- Reproductive experiences, including fertility, pregnancy loss, abortion, birth, and postpartum
- 2SLGBTQIA+ affirming support
My work is grounded in virtual, Emotion-Focused therapy and is available to teens and adults across Ontario.
A space for understanding, care, and meaningful change
The mission of Van Riel Counselling is to provide inclusive, non-judgemental virtual therapy for teens and adults across Ontario.
I am committed to creating a compassionate, affirming space where people of different genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, cultural backgrounds, faiths, abilities, and lived experiences can feel respected and understood. This includes people who are neurodivergent, 2SLGBTQIA+, or who have felt marginalized, misunderstood, or like they do not fully belong.
My work is grounded in Emotion-Focused Therapy and a relational approach. I support people who are navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, emotional overwhelm, identity, relationship difficulties, self-worth, and long-standing patterns shaped by earlier relationships and life experiences.
Therapy is collaborative and paced with care. My goal is to create enough emotional safety for people to better understand what they are feeling, make sense of the patterns that have developed over time, and move toward meaningful change while honouring their autonomy, dignity, and individual strengths.
