Vanessa McCall

When a child starts refusing school, or a teenager retreats behind closed doors, or a family finds itself in freefall after a separation — that’s often the moment someone reaches out to Vanessa McCall. A Registered Clinical Counsellor based in Port Moody, BC, Vanessa divides her practice between private sessions and ongoing work inside schools, where she collaborates with families, teachers, and support staff to wrap care around young people where they actually spend their days.

Vanessa works with children, teenagers, and families navigating anxiety, mood and behavioural challenges, trauma, abuse recovery, and the particular strain that divorce, blended families, and co-parenting arrangements can put on everyone involved — including kids who are already managing a full social world across their phones and their classrooms at once. Her approach begins with education: helping clients understand how anxiety works in their own bodies and minds before building practical, cognitive-behavioural tools tailored to their specific situation. Certified programs including MindUp, The Worry Dragons, Friends for Life, and Life Stress Reduction are woven into her work as the fit calls for it.

Holding a Master of Education in Counselling Psychology from UBC and a twelve-year background as an elementary school teacher, Vanessa brings genuine familiarity with how children learn and grow. She is client-centred to the core, treating the therapeutic relationship itself — the trust built steadily over time — as the foundation on which real change becomes possible. Online sessions are available.