Renee Bartkiewicz

Renée Bartkiewicz, RCC — Trauma, Parts Work, EMDR

Renée Bartkiewicz is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Clear Counselling in Downtown Vancouver, offering over 20 years of experience supporting clients through trauma, emotional overwhelm, and longstanding relational patterns. She provides individual counselling to men, women, and non‑binary individuals.

Her work centres on three core areas: Trauma & Nervous System Regulation, Parts Work & Internal Relational Patterns, and EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Distressing Experiences. These approaches support clients navigating experiences that felt “too much, too fast, or too alone” to process at the time .

Who She Helps

Renée supports individuals who are navigating the effects of trauma and overwhelm, experiencing difficulties in relationships, feeling stuck, disconnected, or seeking deeper self understanding. Through a collaborative and compassionate approach, she helps clients explore how their experiences have shaped the way they relate to themselves and others, strengthen self-awareness and move towards healing, connection, and lasting growth.

Parts Work & Internal Relational Patterns

Using IFS‑informed therapy, Renée supports clients exploring inner critics, fawning, people‑pleasing, perfectionism, attachment wounds, early relational injuries, emotional reactivity, internal conflict, and longstanding relational patterns. She helps clients understand protective strategies that once ensured survival but now create overwhelm, disconnection, or self‑doubt.  

EMDR Therapy

Renée uses EMDR to support clients experiencing triggers, panic, flashbacks, chronic anxiety, negative core beliefs, relationship wounds, intrusive memories, somatic activation, and body‑based trauma responses such as freeze, collapse, or shutdown. EMDR helps reprocess events that felt “too much, too fast, too alone” and integrate new internal narratives rooted in safety and self‑worth.  

How She Works

Renée helps clients move at a pace that feels safe, guiding them toward regulation, emotional clarity, and deeper self‑understanding. She integrates:

• Relational, attachment‑based therapy
• Somatic / Self‑Regulation Therapy (SRT)
• IFS‑informed parts work
• Polyvagal‑informed approaches
• Art therapy for non‑verbal processing

Her approach is authentic, steady, compassionate, and precise. She believes “it is never too late to heal the parts of you that had to survive” and that true change happens when the nervous system feels safe enough to participate.  

Why Clients Choose Her

Clients often choose Renée for her warm, grounded presence; her trauma‑informed expertise; and her ability to offer a deeply human space where they feel seen, understood, and supported. She brings a holistic, embodied approach to healing, collaborative exploration without pressure, and deep respect for each client’s pace, boundaries, and inner wisdom.

Book a Session

Renée offers in‑person counselling in Downtown Vancouver and secure online therapy