A Place to Heal, Grow, and Be Understood.
Feeling stuck, anxious, or disconnected? We Help You Move Forward.
Evidence-informed therapy that works for youth, adults, couples, and families -
in-person or online.
A place to heal, grow, and be understood.
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Hospital-Trained, Evidence-Focused Staff.
Most of our therapists began their careers in hospital and healthcare settings, where they gained extensive experience supporting individuals and families through complex challenges. That foundation shapes the work we do - grounded in research, guided by best practice, and delivered with warmth and compassion.
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A New Space Designed with You in Mind.
Established in 2015, VCC moved in 2024 to a brand-new space thoughtfully designed with your comfort and well-being in mind. Adults and teens can relax with a tea or coffee in a warm, living room–style waiting area and thoughtfully furnished client rooms. Children enjoy a curated kids’ library and toy area, special touches like starting sessions with snacks, visiting the prize station, and earning freezies on particularly brave days. We’ve worked hard to create a space where adults, adolescents, children, and their families feel safe and seen (and well-fed and caffeinated)!
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Fitness Guarantee.
Therapy works best when you feel understood, supported, and confident in the person sitting across from you - and that’s what our fitness guarantee ensures. We believe the quality of the match between you and your therapist is essential to meaningful progress. If you don’t feel your therapist is the right fit, we’ll connect you with another clinician at no additional cost.
Evidence-Based Counselling
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) refers to practices that have been extensively researched and proven to be effective. While we focus our work in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), many of us training and/or working at the Anxiety Treatment and Research Centre or Mood Disorders Program at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, we also utilize other evidenced approaches depending on the presenting concern. It is important to us that we engage in therapeutic modalities that are safe and effective in order to maximize the chances of positive therapy outcomes. Therapists at VCC are carefully selected based on experience and training in EBP. Our clinic is committed to staying up-to-date on gold standard practices by reading current research and literature, engaging in lifelong training, and participating in ongoing individual and group consultation within and outside of the practice.
VCC is committed to creating a comfortable and nonjudgmental space where individuals can feel at ease exploring their lives and experiences with skilled clinicians. While we can offer you insight, support, and evidence-based tools, you remain in control of the therapeutic process from start to finish. VCC also has a fitness guarantee: we support clients until they find the best fit of therapist for their style and goals, within or outside of our clinic.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)
Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Emotion-Focused Family Therapy (EFFT)
Fitness Guarantee
Finding the right therapist can be challenging and this is why VCC stands by its goodness-of-fit guarantee. If for any reason you aren’t clicking well with the therapist we have matched you with, we will help connect you to a more suitable therapist - within or outside of our clinic.
Post-secondary or medical student? Add us to your support network.
We have experience working and teaching in post-secondary settings such as at McMaster’s Student Wellness Centre and UGME, supporting emerging professionals and undergraduate and graduate students.
We moved!
We can’t wait to welcome you into our brand new clinic located at 60 Hatt Street in Dundas. Not interested in seeing someone in-person? We provide virtual counselling, too.
Learn more about our team of evidence-informed counsellors.
It can feel overwhelming finding reputable help. Valley Centre for Counselling focuses specifically on gold-standard therapy approaches that have been well-researched and found to be effective and safe. VCC’s team of counsellors have extensive training in these approaches and are committed to ways of helping that will increase the chances of good therapy outcomes.
How Does It Work?
Fill out of a form, call, or email us with your inquiry.
You will be provided with therapist options who have specific experience in the areas you are hoping to explore and within the budget you are comfortable with.
Choose to meet with your therapist online or in person, depending on your preference.
Fill out a form on our website, call, or email us with your inquiry.
You will be provided with therapist options who have specific expertise in the areas you are hoping to explore.
Choose to meet with your therapist online or in person, depending on your preference.
Don’t feel ready for counselling?
Reach out to us and we can help point you towards reputable self-help resources to help get you started.
Our Values
We are proud allies of the LGBTQ community. We work to stay informed on current LGBTQ issues, news, and events. We support equality by fighting for policies that protect LGBTQ individuals from discrimination. We are active in the fight against homophobia and transphobia, and we advocate for equal treatment for all people, regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation.
We support and endorse the Black Lives Matter movement and recognize the injustices and violence associated with anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism. We stand in solidarity with our BIPOC community.
“Allyship is an active, consistent, and arduous practice of unlearning and re-evaluating, in which a person of privilege seeks to operate in solidarity with a marginalized group of people. Allyship is not an identity - it is a lifelong process of building relationships based on trust, consistence, and accountability with marginalized individuals or groups.”
INDIGENOUS ALLYSHIP TOOLKIT | INDIGENOUS HEALTH NETWORK (2019)
Struggling with stress in a post-COVID world?
The loss, languishing, and suffering associated with the global pandemic have been difficult for many of us. We have created a self-help program to help you cope with anxiety, worry, low mood, and low motivation post-pandemic.