Ann Downie

Ann has a special interest in supporting clients struggling with binge eating and chronic dieting, with a focus on helping clients improve their relationships with their bodies. Her training and experience in this area allow her to support clients to calm their nervous system and regulate their emotions more effectively, build mindful and intuitive eating patterns that support awareness of hunger and fullness, and move from shame to empowerment. Ann offers a weight-inclusive space that challenges diet culture and weight stigma, using a trauma-informed approach to help clients approach emotional eating from a holistic lens. 

Ann draws from a variety of evidence-based counselling approaches based on the needs of each client. She uses a blend of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), emotionally focused therapy (EFT), internal family systems theory, and narrative therapy. She works from a trauma-informed, solution-focused and humanistic lens that emphasizes self-discovery and personal agency.

Ann offers phone and online video counselling sessions for clients across British Columbia. She works with individual adults.

Ann is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors with a Masters of Education in Counselling Psychology from UBC. She has 20 years of experience in the helping field.

Please note: emails/messages sent to Ann through the CounsellingBC.com website are forwarded to the confidential inbox of the Clinical Director of Gravitate Counselling Inc., who can answer your questions and/or help you book your first appointment with her.