Beth d’Aoust, RCC
Associate Counsellor
(she/her/hers)
In-Person and Virtual Sessions
Beth is currently accepting new clients!
If you are interested in connecting with Beth, please contact beth@collective-healing.ca. For existing clients, self-book here.
Beth is a white, queer, disabled, straight-sized, cisgender settler with ADHD living and working on traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Beth spent the past six years teaching high school English, and after feeling her priorities shift away from academia and toward her students’ mental health, self-regulation abilities, and general wellbeing, she was drawn toward the more intimate 1:1 setting of the counselling space.
Beth offers an accessible, collaborative, client-centred, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed approach to counselling for individuals, families, and those seeking relationship counselling. Beth is firmly committed to the ongoing process of unlearning involved in decolonization and her practice is heavily informed by systems thinking, intersectional feminism, harm reduction, non-binary values, queer theory, attachment theory, and somatics. Beth has lived experience in and near chronic illness and disability, traumatic brain injury, anxiety and depression, addictions, religious trauma, intergenerational trauma, self-esteem, burnout, sexualized violence, grief and loss, non-monogamy and alternative relationship structures, and relationship endings.
Beth has been studying nervous system regulation, interpersonal neurobiology, polyvagal theory, and epigenetics in her free time for the past five years. Throughout this time, she has also trained extensively in Conscious Connected Breathwork facilitation, Hakomi Therapy, and Bioenergetics with Numa Somatics. In January, 2021, Beth handed over her English classroom, and dove into a full-time Master of Counselling degree at City University of Seattle’s “Vancouver” campus, in the interest of blending her passions and expanding her offerings.
In her personal life, Beth is a lover of singing, dancing, laughing, reading, painting, cooking for loved ones, taking rainy forest walks, tending to her many plants, and soaking up sunshine whenever possible. She loves connecting with new people, facilitating collaborative and empowering experiences, and providing a tender, validating witness to folks as they process their lived experiences. Beth is so looking forward to working with you!
Beth’s Rates
15 min Phone Consultation
No Cost
Individual Counselling
50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $170
Generous: $175+
75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $245
Generous: $250+
Relationship Counselling
50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $195
Generous: $200+
75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $280
Generous: $285+
Family Counselling
50 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $195
Generous: $200+
75 min
Sliding Scale: Closed/Full
Standard: $280
Generous: $285+
Hormone Readiness Assessments
Two 40-minute sessions: $300 per assessment
Beth’s Availability
Location: Mount Pleasant, Virtual
Days and Hours:
Monday 9:00am - 3:00pm (Virtual)
Tuesday 2:00pm - 7:00pm (Mount Pleasant or Virtual)
Wednesday 9:00am - 3:00pm (Virtual)
Thursday 2:00pm - 7:00pm (Mount Pleasant or Virtual)
Friday 9:00am - 3:00pm (Virtual)
Approaches in Therapy
Client-Centred
Anti-Oppressive
Trauma-Informed
Attachment-Informed
Polyvagal-Informed
Harm-Reduction
Strengths-based
Queer Affirmative
Neurodivergent Affirmative
Sex-Positive
Kink-Informed
Intersectional Feminism
Somatic Psychotherapy
Internal Family Systems / Parts Work
Mindfulness & Self-compassion
Conscious Connected Breathwork
Licensure & Degrees
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
Master of Counselling, City University of Seattle
Bachelor of Education, University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Arts, University of British Columbia
Selected Professional Training
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Therapy Training (EMDRIA & CCPA Approved) - Sue Genest
Numa Somatics Level 1: Integrative Breathwork Therapy Immersion - Trevor Yelich
Numa Somatics Level 2: Integrative Breathwork Therapy Facilitation - Trevor Yelich
Numa Somatics Level 3: Exploring Psyche & Soma - Trevor Yelich
Numa Somatics Level 4A: Somatics: Sensitive Therapeutics (A blend of Hakomi Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy & Somatic Experiencing) - Trevor Yelich
Numa Somatics Level 4B: Somatics: Sensitive Therapeutics (A blend of Hakomi Therapy, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy & Somatic Experiencing) - Trevor Yelich
The Sexually Competent Therapist: Integrating Sex Therapy into Your Practice [Foundations] - Diana Sadat
Working with the Effects of Emotional Abuse, Severe Neglect & Invisibility - Dolores Mosquera
How to Work with Shame - NICABM
PreVenture - A Preventive Mental Health Program for Teens
Beth d’Aoust
RCC
Beth is wearing a black button up shirt and glasses. She is centered in the frame while smiling at the camera. The background is a white wall with a lamp on the left side, plants, and a picture frame on a shelf on the top right corner.