Licensed Psychologist
Deborah Kieran
Deborah Kieran is a Registered Psychologist with more than 10 years of experience supporting clients through a range of personal challenges and life changes. She works with individuals and couples navigating anxiety, stress, depression, life transitions, trauma, relationship concerns, and adjustment to illness, injury, or chronic pain.
About
Deborah sees counselling as a unique relationship in which clients are supported through changes in their lives as they move toward their goals. She believes that engaging in a collaborative therapeutic process can help people move toward becoming their best selves.
Clients may come to Deborah seeking support with anxiety, stress, sadness or depression; life transitions; adjustment to illness, injury, or chronic pain; processing trauma; or developing different relationships with others or with themselves, including through couples counselling.
Practice Areas
Anxiety and stress
Sadness and depression
Life transitions
Illness, injury, and chronic pain
Trauma
Relationship concerns
Couples counselling
Approach to Practice
Deborah’s approach includes supportive and empathic listening, introducing new ideas to consider, developing practical skills, and providing a safe place to explore the question of “what now?”
She welcomes feedback and direction from her clients and views their participation as an important part of co-creating a beneficial therapeutic environment.
Qualifications & Registrations
Registered Psychologist, College of Psychologists of BC #2677
Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, City University, 2008