Kelowna Counselling
Real Life Counselling • Kelowna, British Columbia
Kelowna-based therapy with a Registered Clinical Counsellor who actually lives here.
Founded and led by Ashley Kreze, RCC — a Registered Clinical Counsellor who lives in Kelowna, raises her family here, and is active in the community. Real Life Counselling offers secure online therapy for anxiety, burnout, relationships, parenting, and life transitions, available to clients across Kelowna and the Okanagan.
Counselling in Kelowna with a Registered Clinical Counsellor
Real Life Counselling provides online psychotherapy to residents of Kelowna and the Okanagan region of British Columbia. The practice is founded and led by Ashley Kreze, RCC — a Registered Clinical Counsellor who lives in Kelowna and is registered with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). Sessions are delivered virtually for clients across BC, with common reasons people reach out including anxiety, stress and burnout, depression, relationship and couples challenges, parenting concerns, grief, life transitions, and trauma.
Kelowna looks idyllic from the outside — lakes, mountains, vineyards, sunshine — but it carries its own kind of pressure. The cost of living has climbed sharply. The tech and tourism economies cycle through busy and quiet seasons. Many residents are newcomers from elsewhere in Canada, navigating new careers, new relationships, and the quiet isolation that can come with starting over somewhere beautiful. Others have lived in the Okanagan for years and are watching the place change around them. Therapy gives you a steady space to work through whatever you're carrying, with a therapist who actually understands the place you live.
Online therapy isn't a compromise — for many people in Kelowna it's a better fit than driving across town to an office. Sessions happen from home, your workplace, or wherever you have privacy. Evening, early morning, and weekend appointments fit around real jobs, real kids, and real Okanagan life.
Meet Your Kelowna Therapist
Ashley Kreze, RCC — based in Kelowna, BC.
Ashley is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors and the founder of Real Life Counselling. She lives in Kelowna, raises her kids who go to school here, and is genuinely invested in this community — not just professionally, but personally.
That local context matters. When clients talk about Kelowna's cost of living, isolation between communities, the pace of newcomer life in the Okanagan, or the realities of raising a family here, Ashley actually understands what they're describing — because she's living it too.
What we help Kelowna clients work through
Whatever you're carrying, our therapists have helped people in the Okanagan and across BC navigate something similar.
Anxiety & Overthinking
Tools to calm your nervous system, reduce mental spirals, and feel less reactive day-to-day.
Stress & Burnout
Support for chronic pressure, exhaustion, and the feeling that you can't keep going at this pace.
Depression & Low Mood
Work through low mood, loss of motivation, and the heaviness that makes everything feel harder.
Relationships & Couples
Improve communication, work through conflict, rebuild trust, and reconnect with your partner.
Parenting & Family
Support for the pressure of parenting, family conflict, and the strain of holding it all together.
Life Transitions
Career changes, separation, moving to the Okanagan, becoming a parent, or major identity shifts.
Trauma & Hard Experiences
Process events that still affect how you feel, react, or relate — at a pace that feels safe.
Seasonal & Isolation Struggles
Support for the quieter, darker, harder months — including seasonal mood changes common in BC.
Online counselling for Kelowna residents
Online therapy gives Kelowna and Okanagan residents access to a therapist who understands what you're working through — not just whoever happens to have a local office with availability. Sessions are 50 minutes by default, delivered over secure video, and scheduled around your real life.
Most clients begin within a week of reaching out. Evening, early morning, and weekend appointments available.
How it works
- Share what's going on. Tell us about your goals and what kind of therapist feels right.
- Get matched. We connect you with a clinician whose approach and experience fit your needs.
- Start therapy. Begin online sessions, on your schedule, from wherever you are in the Okanagan.
Serving Kelowna & the Okanagan
Real Life Counselling provides online counselling to clients across Kelowna and the surrounding Okanagan region.
Kelowna counselling FAQs
Is your therapist actually based in Kelowna?
Is online counselling effective for Kelowna clients?
What is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)?
Are sessions covered by insurance in BC?
How quickly can I start counselling?
Can you help with couples counselling in Kelowna?
How do I get started?
Therapy from someone who lives where you live.
Tell us what's going on. We'll match you with a therapist and most Kelowna clients begin within a week.
Related counselling services
Other ways we can support you.