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DevanCecilia Counselling

Counselling services provided in Chilliwack or online. Specialities: grief & loss, caregiver burnout Located in the medical building above Lock's Pharmacy.

Counselling services in Chilliwack and online through video and instant chat. Elevator accessible. Specialties include grief & loss, death and dying, caregiver burnout/support, dementia/Alzheimer's support, life transitions, retirement support, depression and anxiety.

02/03/2026

Such excited news!!!!

The lovely Lyndsay Rao has joined DevanCecilia Counselling to provide counselling services and we are THRILLED!!!!

Lyndsay is passionate with supporting adults who are navigating trauma and recovery, grief, life transitions, personal growth, and questions around identity and neurodivergence, including late diagnosis.

Lyndsay practices from a lens of Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), somatic and body-based approaches, relational therapies, and self-compassion–informed practices.

She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology. She brings over 15 years of experience in the mental health field, including extensive work in non-profit and community-based settings supporting individuals with complex mental health challenges, trauma histories, and experiences of marginalization. She has been practicing as an RCC since January 2024 and currently working with adults.

Lyndsay brings a calm, supportive presence. Her work is also informed by her own lived experience with mental health, including navigating a late ADHD diagnosis, which has deepened her understanding of how important it is to feel truly seen and understood in therapy.

Lyndsay is currently accepting new clients and has immediate availability.

Book with Lyndsay directly or complete the contact form to connect for a free 15 minute phone consultation at www.DevanCeciliaCounselling.com

01/12/2026

Welcome to 2026!

Already booming with booked counselling services - Thank you!

Some changes that have occurred due to the volume of booked appointments and active clients:

1. Online booking has been paused for the moment. This is to ensure existing clients are able to access services.

For existing active clients to book their next appointment, please go to the online booking link: https://devanceciliacounselling.janeapp.com/ and login with your email and password. You will be able to book or edit any future appointments.

2. For any folks interested in becoming clients, we have started a waitlist - where you will be contacted when space becomes available. Please fill out the contact form, call, or email to put yourself on the waitlist. Www.devanceciliacounselling.com/contact

3. Offering referrals : we never want you to feel like you've hit a dead end by looking for services with DevanCecilia Counselling when immediate services are not available. With everyone who contacts us for services while spaces are not available, whether you join the waitlist or now, suggested referrals are offered based on your referral topics, preferred location of services, and to clinicians who are currently accepting new clients - so you don't have to keep searching or waiting.

Thank you so very much to all who are considering, have, and are participating in services with DevanCecilia Counselling. Your support and trust means so very much!

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out!

Chilliwack Counselling
Counsellor
Grief and Loss Counselling

01/05/2026

Read that as many times as you need to remember that this is not the same, it is familiar...

And you are different now. You know more about this than the past version of you did, ans therefore you are more prepared and able to navigate this similar experience this time❤️

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11/24/2025

The end of the year is fast approaching and available sessions are significantly limited at this time.

But that doesn't mean you are without options!

DevanCecilia Counselling offers 6 mini crash courses in various mental health topics to support you with skills to help you get through the days - from the comfort of where ever you need to learn them.

Whether it's stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, or just a desire to be more mindful, there are options available!

Learn my favourite skills in minutes with these courses and save yourself a handful of counselling sessions trying to learn them, at a SIGNIFICANT fraction of the cost of one counselling session.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out,or share with someone who needs this.

I wish you happy learning and quick relief

Direct link in comments, or access through website in bio

11/04/2025

Words will never be able to describe the feeling that comes from witnessing, listening, and holding space for the pain clients hold that has never been said outloud ❤️

Poetry might come close though 😉

10/23/2025

Living the best life doing, the job my high-school self always hoped of being 🥰

And I wouldn't want it any other way ❤️

10/06/2025

Have you ever used AI for things that would typically be discussed in a counselling session?

Things like...
❔️how to deal with difficult people in your life?
❔️how to manage your anxiety?
❔️how to decrease your stress?
❔️how to navigate a relationship with someone?
❔️...?

I'm hearing more and more about people using AI to help them with their mental and emotional distress because it can be free, it's immediate, and it provides answers a stressed out, anxious, overloaded brain wants to feel some sense of control and ease to navigate the current experience immediately.

And I love that people are using tools they can get to support their needs and continue to move forward with their day.

I'm concerned, however, about the limitations and risks of using AI for psychological and relational needs when taking them as fact and trusted direction.

AI can only provide the answers to the questions asked, with the context received, and the direction the question asks it to go.

It does not have critical thinking skills
It does not challenge the requests made of it
It does not provide information from sited sources when none are available, leading to false answers that are shared to fill the spaces between the question asked and the answers needed.
It also does not have the capabilities to know when to conduct mental health risk assessments to ensure someone's safety.

I offer this information to help inform of the risks of using AI in replacement of therapy or counselling services for topics and needs outside of the capacities of the technology at this time.

Not to mention that the more we use it, the less critical thinking skills we have to support ourselves in future needs, but that's a whole other conversation 🙈

What are your thoughts?
What you think about using AI for therapeutic needs?
And if you've used them for it yourself, I'd love to hear how it was helpful and where it missed the mark for you.

10/03/2025

Just because you are capable of doing something (or all of the things) doesn't mean that you also have the capacity to.

Capacity is the maximum amount of space you can contain and produce.

So while you have MANY capabilities, no one one earth has the capacity to do it all, all at the same time.

Cooking, cleaning, shopping, prepping, planning, working, supporting, enjoying, creating, playing, exploring, growing, learning, teaching, sharing, holding, navigating, making, feeling...

We all have limits and cannot do it all or alone.

So if you're feeling maxed out, at (or over) your limit, know that it is perfectly OK (and encouraged) to see what can shift, what can give, what can wait, until there is more capacity for it.

You might not like it, and that's OK.

The only rule here is that you can't put yourself to the side to wait, because without taking care of you, there is no capacity or capability to do anything else ❤️

Save this if you need this reminder down the road, or share it with someone you care about who might need this ❤️

10/01/2025

There are times in life when you may need to talk about the same things on repeat for a while.

It might not be because you want to, but because your brain is trying so hard to make sense of something that feels senseless or unfathomable.

And that's OK.

If it's what keeps you going, helps you to try and make sense of even small parts of it, it's helpful.

Find the space where you can do that - with the people who will hold the space for you to repeat and review it for as long as you need to.

The death
The change
The loss
The unknown

And if you're needing a space to help you hold it, feel it, work with it, and navigate it, I hope you find a counsellor who is trained to do that work with you, and who feels like the right fit ❤️

After all, that's what we are here for ❤️

09/29/2025

When they people we love most come into this world, come into our lives, they make a monumental shift in how we see our timeline, and life in relationship with them.

We can see life before them, and soak up the life we love we have in the time we have with them.

But rarely do we think about how it will be with life after them... until we are in it.

And that switch from during to after is BRUTAL.

Brutal with no easy fix, or set of tasks you can do quickly to make this pain go away.

This pain needs (and demands) pause, reflection, comfort, support, and time.

Pause to let it settle into reality

Reflection on what it means to be you now with the change

Comfort because this is HARD mental, emotional, and physical work

Support because you were never meant to go it alone

And time so that your capacities to hold this new reality and the pain that comes with it, grows.

So while you are here, in the after space, I hope you can take what you need, with permission for it to go however it goes, and not to out expectations on yourself or others while you figure it out ❤️

Save this for later, or share it with someone who think might need this ❤️

09/23/2025

Hallelujah, it's time for the in-office noise machine to be turned off!

Don't get me wrong, I love an appropriately temp'd room, but the constant noise is not loved 🤣

Now we get to return to the breeze from the windows, and soon the heat from the registers 🥰

When you're in a counselling office, what things do you look forward to in the change of the seasons?

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212/9181 Main Street
Chilliwack, BC
V2P4M9

Opening Hours

Tuesday	4pm - 6pm
Thursday	4pm - 6pm

Telephone

+17789085317

Website

http://www.devanceciliacounselling.com/

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