COMMUNITY COUNSELLING OFFERS FREE COUNSELLING
Community Counselling is a FREE counselling program for residents of Langley and Aldergrove who are 10 years and older. All sessions are highly confidential and tailored to your needs.
IMPROVE MOOD, LIFE BALANCE, AND SENSE OF SELF
The program provides a confidential and non-judgmental space for clients to address emotional, relational, or situational challenges. Counselling provides solid strategies, techniques, and frameworks to strengthen and improve your view, mood, life balance and resiliency. We are all, at one time or another, faced with an issue we are not able to navigate on our own. If you are seeking youth counselling, individual counselling, parenting/co-parenting counselling, or couples counselling, our counsellors are knowledgeable, compassionate, empathetic, and committed to helping you.
We offer help for a wide range of issues including but not limited to:
- Marriage and relationship issues
- Dealing with separation, divorce and blended families
- Coping with the symptoms of abuse (emotional, physical, and sexual)
- Parenting challenges
- Low self-esteem
- Feelings of unhappiness and hopelessness
- Life transitions (moving, changing jobs, leaving home, medical diagnosis)
- Feeling symptoms of stress, anxiety, depression (post-partum depression)
- Behaviours or feelings that are harmful to self
- Coping with grief and loss
- Concerns about body image
- Sleep issues making a life changing decision
- Family issues
- Adjustment difficulties
- Childhood and adolescent Issues
- Vocational and workplace issues
- Isolation
- Cross cultural issues
- Parent/Youth conflicts
- Trauma Symptoms
OVER 40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
The Community Counselling Program has served Langley for more than 40 years delivering more than 40,000 hours of free counselling and helping over 8000 individuals and couples. Our counsellors are Masters-level interns who offer confidential counselling to individuals and couples under the supervision of a Registered Clinical Counsellor.
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY…
“I’m grateful for this counselling program and my counsellor. I don’t know what I would have done without them”
“I have a better understanding of what triggers my emotions now”
“Getting help in setting goals has given new meaning to my everyday life”
“My counsellor was absolutely fantastic…very kind and considerate. I can now cope with my father’s passing and new role as a caregiver”
“My counsellor and I connected very well”
“It was very enjoyable dealing with my counsellor. I looked forward to our sessions. She helped my change my direction and that has helped with my problem”
“I have improved my communication skills”
“I’m better able to express and regulate my emotions”
“My anxiety and depression have decreased since coming to counselling”
HOW TO ACCESS FREE COUNSELLING
Community Counseling offers residents of Langley and Aldergrove who are over 10 years old 6 to 8 free sessions of counselling with our MA-practicum counsellors.
To register for counselling services, fill out our intake form or call Langley Community Services at 604-534-7921 and complete intake by phone.
Once your intake form has been received you will be placed on our call list. You will receive a call to book your first appointment from your counsellor when they have a space available.
CLIENT STORIES
FEELING ASHAMED: MY STORY AS A PARENT
Suzanne: I thought I was incapable of being a good parent. I was having more problems parenting and being a wife than anyone I knew. I felt like a failure and was ashamed, so I never told anyone how much I struggled. Stressed out I finally went to my doctor who suggested counselling and that’s where I found out how out of balance my life was. I gained insights into my struggles and the reasons around them, learned how to structure my life so I, and my family could finally get what we each need – at least some of the time. With this new awareness and a much more balanced life I feel happier and more confident and that is making me a better parent and wife.
BATTLING ANXIETY: MY STORY
Brian: I’ve always been that quiet, nervous person in the back of the room. Meeting people for the first time or trying something new has always been excruciating for me. I spent a great deal of my time imagining all sort of calamities and ways that things will go wrong. These thoughts kept me from sleeping, sometimes from eating, and, because I was desperate to be invisible, prevented me from enjoying life. Now, in counselling, I know what the problem is – anxiety. And I’m learning to balance out the anxiety with strategies to cope and I’m starting to enjoy my life.
COMMUNITY IMPACT
The Community Counselling program has delivered more than 1400 hours of counselling to over 240 couples and individuals last year. Since opening in the early 1980’s, Langley Community Services Society is proud to have provided more than 40,000 hours of free counselling, helping over 8000 individuals and couples over the last 40 years.
Thank you for your interest in the Master’s-level Counselling Internship Program at Langley Community Services with the Community Counselling Program.
We offer internship placements for students enrolled in a Master’s program in Counselling Psychology three times per year, with start dates in September, January, and May. Each placement is eight months in duration (two academic terms). Interns are expected to commit approximately 2.5 days per week, providing a combination of in-person and virtual counselling services. Interns will hold a case load of 10 clients. There is also opportunity for group co-facilitation within therapeutic and psychoeducational groups.
Our internship program includes both individual and group supervision, with a strong emphasis on supporting interns in accumulating the clinical hours required to pursue registration as a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC.
Through our Community Counselling Program, interns gain experience working with clients aged 10 and older, including individuals and couples. We support clients presenting with a wide range of concerns, offering a rich and diverse learning environment that fosters the development of well-rounded clinical skills.
We accept three interns per intake term, with up to six interns participating in the program at any given time.
Please note that we receive a high volume of applications each term. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
