Virginia Chomley

As a sensitive and intuitive person, empathy and compassion are at the heart of Virginia's practice. Your emotional well-being and psychological safety are the priority in each session.

You will be met with warmth, sensitivity, respect, hope and encouragement. Virginia can help you process problematic thoughts and difficult emotions, develop coping skills and increase resilience, and help you move from feeling stuck to navigating a path forward.

Virginia is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC #15070) in British Columbia with eight years of clinical experience. Her education includes a Bachelor of Communication (Bond University, Australia), a Master of Counselling Psychology (Adler University, Vancouver), and certificates in yoga instruction and yoga therapy that inform her holistic approach to mental health.



Virginia is trained in:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
• Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Family Therapy
• Somatic Trauma Healing
• EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma
• Sexual Abuse Intervention Training
• San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training
• Art Therapy

Professional Experience

Virginia spent the first years of her career working as a clinical counsellor in an outdoor-based school for at-risk youth, where she supported teens aged 14-19 experiencing anxiety, depression, substance use issues and addiction, complex trauma and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and other challenges.

She went on to work as a Child and Family Counsellor at a community-based agency in Burnaby, where she continues to support children and youth age 5 to 19 and their families with a wide-range of complex and co-occurring mental health and well-being issues including unresolved trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), ADHD, ASD, grief and loss, relationship and family issues, and recovery from sexual assault.

Virginia’s previous 10+ year career in marketing and communications led to a special interest in career direction and personal fulfilment, managing work stress and healing from burnout. Since 2021 Virginia has been facilitating mental health workshops to organisations across the USA with the International Association of Administration Professionals.

Areas of Focus

Virginia works with adult clients mostly seeking support for:

• Unresolved Trauma
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Sexual Assault
• Stress & Burnout
• Family of Origin Issues
• ADHD 
• Self-Esteem
• Women's Health 
• Difficult Life Transitions
• Finding Meaning and Purpose

Please book a complimentary 15-minute consultation to discuss your goals, ask any questions you may have, and see if it feels like a good fit to work together.

Limited places are available on a sliding-scale.