Dave Dyck

People navigating the weight of a life disrupted — by health, by trauma, by addiction, by relationships coming apart at the seams — often find in Dave Dyck a counsellor who understands disruption from the inside. Based in Nanaimo, BC, Dave is a Canadian Certified Counsellor who works with teenagers and adults through to the elderly, supporting individuals, couples, and families across a wide range of struggles, from anxiety and depression to substance use, compulsive gambling, and the pull of gaming or endless scrolling when the same reward loops that drive other addictions find a new home online.

Dave draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Solutions-Focused Brief Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy, adapting his approach to each person. He is also completing Level 1 certification in Eye Movement Integration (EMI), a trauma-processing modality that tracks the client’s pace closely. His own experience managing a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis shapes how he thinks about health: as something interconnected, requiring collaboration across many disciplines, never reduced to a single dimension.

Dave’s orientation is client-centred in a practical sense — he treats the people he works with as experts in their own lives and focuses on building realistic, achievable goals together. Sessions are available online. His approach is guided throughout by non-judgment, empathy, and what he describes as a gentle curiosity.