Andrew Lee

I am Andrew Lee and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC). I am dedicated to providing personalized therapy to clients seeking healing, treatment, support, and guidance for various mental health difficulties and life challenges. I empower individuals to cultivate a greater sense of meaning, purpose, peace, joy, and self-compassion in life.

With over 18 years of experience in the field, I have treated many adolescents and  adults from different backgrounds and helped them overcome:

• Depression
• Loneliness/Isolation
• Sadness
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Fear
• Shame/Guilt
• Mood Swing
• Impulsivity
• Psychosis
• Dissociation
• Suicidal Ideation
• Self-Harm
• Borderline Personality
• Trauma
• Disordered Eating
• Substance Use
• Low Self-Esteem
• Life/School/Family/Work Problems
• Obsessive Compulsive Behaviours
• Neurodivergent Challenges

I also provide romantic, couple, and intimate relationship counselling.

I am highly experienced and effective in treating emotional and behavioural dysregulation and performing skills training and coaching so that clients can become more and more resilient with the skills and strategies I help them acquire. While treating adolescent clients, I have also helped many parents and caregivers address various parenting and attachment concerns and supported them in improving their own mental health well-being. In my practice, I collaborate with psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, occupational therapists, and academic/educational professionals when necessary.

As I focus on building a warm, compassionate, inspirational, collaborative, and effective therapeutic relationship, I am committed to creating a safe and welcoming environment where clients and their family members can feel validated and accepted so they can freely discuss their struggles and work towards healing and growth.

I utilize Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), DBT-Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE), DBT Abstinence, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Exposure Therapy, mindfulness-based approach, metacognitive approach, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Client-Directed Outcome-informed Therapy (CDOI), harm reduction, and other evidence-based therapeutic modalities to tailor treatment to each client’s unique needs. I offer in-person and virtual sessions and I offer weekday and weekend sessions. Furthermore, I am able to provide services in Mandarin (我可以提供中文服務).

Other than the regular 50-minute individual sessions and parent sessions, I specifically provide adapted and extended 80-minute DBT individual therapy sessions to help clients who suffer with moderate/severe/complex emotional, behavioural, and/or interpersonal dysfunction as well as borderline personality traits. In this specialized session, I provide both DBT individual therapy and individualized DBT skills training (which includes teaching and coaching DBT skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and/or walking middle path) to maximize the therapeutic effectiveness. This specialized DBT-based treatment can be applied to preteen, youth, and adult clients at any age.

As I am blessed with having DBT clinical and therapeutic capacity, I am also a DBT supervisor, trainer, and mentor. In 2017, I completed DBT supervisor and mentor training arranged by the Ministry of Child and Family Development. I have been providing numerous DBT training to mental health and education professionals and developing DBT treatment services in the public system.

In addition to providing therapy and counselling, I am/was a clinical supervisor and team leader for various mental health programs in Vancouver, including child and adolescent mental health crisis intervention team, DBT team for youth/young adult concurrent disorder, community child & adolescent mental health programs, youth substance use prevention programs, mental health program for alternative education program students, and youth day treatment mental health program.

I thank you very much for visiting my profile page and I would love to have the opportunity to empower and support you through your healing and recovery journey.