Heal your relationship
with yourself, others, and the world
Offering individual counselling and psychotherapy, couples counselling & sex therapy, clinical supervision, consultation, and animist shamanic journey work.
Sessions can be booked in person, in downtown Vancouver B.C. on Coast Salish Lands, and remotely via Zoom.
Whether you are an individual seeking to heal and grow, or part of a couple whose intimate relationship is suffering and stuck, let us explore together.
Welcome! I am Ishtar Beck, Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS). I offer…
∞ depth psychotherapy and holistic trauma counselling for individuals healing from trauma and life’s sorrows
∞ relationship counselling and sex therapy for couples dealing with sexual and emotional disconnect
∞ feminist relational clinical supervision & consultation for counsellors
∞ supervision mentorship (SoS) for supervisors who mentor student counsellors
With focus and intention, I open a space of possibility for you to feel safe, included, and understood. I witness all your parts, the many voices within you, and all aspects of your self and your experience with affection — especially those you may find difficult to love. At heart, I see myself as a fellow traveller who walks alongside you while you rally your resources, expand into self-compassion, and continue crafting a fulfilling life with your resilience and creativity.
We are all learning.
The pain is part of the growth path.
Welcome!
My approach to counselling is integrative, holistic, and radically non-judgmental. I believe that the wisdom you are seeking is found within you. My role is to encourage you by meeting you exactly where you are at, seeing your strength, and holding your experiences with tenderness as you interpret and re-imagine your life. I also aim to provide perspectives that challenge suffering and offer ways to compassion.
Sex therapy and sexuality counselling for couples is one of my areas of specialty. I offer many forms of relationship counselling and I welcome all kinds of relationships. Queerness and anti-oppression are important in my practice. I hold an inclusive LGBTQ2SIA+ space in which diversity in identity, sexuality, expression, and experience are celebrated.
I frequently work with individuals facing trauma, life challenges, and grief that may at times feel overwhelming. Depth psychotherapy that delves into dreamwork, somatic attunement, the symbolic & the archetypal, as well as ancestral healing, is a central part of my offering.
With a gentle yet fiercely compassionate approach, I invite you to explore. I will accompany you through the pain, the stuckness, the fear, the frustration, the discovery, the joy, the loss, the expansion, all of it.
Nothing you bring is outside human amazingness.
“The god comes through the wound.”
Depth psychotherapy
For information about the holistic depth psychotherapy services I offer, please stay tuned.
Couples counselling
For information about the systemic relationship counselling and sex therapy services I offer, please stay tuned.
Consultation & SoS
For information about the feminist relational clinical consultation and supervision of supervision (SoS) I offer, please stay tuned.
Shamanic journeys
For information about the ceremonial shamanic journey work I offer, please stay tuned. In the meantime, read and research ‘core-shamanism’.
If you are seeking to heal…
If you are seeking to heal and you sense that healing is as complex as life itself;
