Real Life Counselling • Surrey, British Columbia
Online counselling in Surrey, therapy that fits your life, not your commute.
You shouldn’t have to cross the Port Mann or lose an evening on Highway 1 to talk to the right therapist. We provide secure online counselling for Surrey and the Fraser Valley, matched to what you’re actually navigating, often within a week.
WHY ONLINE COUNSELLING WORKS FOR SURREY
Life in BC’s fastest-growing city is exactly what online therapy was built for.
- Commuters crossing the Port Mann, Pattullo, or Alex Fraser every day
- Shift workers at Surrey Memorial on rotating schedules
- Families carrying two sets of expectations across generations
- Parents in growing neighbourhoods juggling work, school runs, and activities
- Couples who’d rather talk from their own living room
- Patients referred by their family doctor
Counselling in Surrey with Registered Clinical Counsellors
Real Life Counselling provides online counselling and anxiety therapy to residents of Surrey and the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. The practice was founded in 2009 and BC counselling is delivered by Registered Clinical Counsellors with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), under the leadership of founder Ashley Kreze, RCC, who is based in BC. Sessions are delivered by secure video anywhere in British Columbia, and the most common reasons Surrey clients reach out include anxiety, family and cultural expectations, couples and relationship challenges, stress and burnout, depression, and life transitions. Most clients begin within a week.
Surrey is growing faster than anywhere in BC, and most of the people who reach out to us here arrived in the middle of building something: a new home, a new business, a family stretched between generations and sometimes continents. It’s a lot of momentum and a lot of expectation, and both are usually carried privately.
Online therapy fits that life better than an office ever did: no bridge, no Highway 1 crawl, no waiting room. Sessions happen from your home office, the kitchen after bedtime, or wherever is private, with evening and weekend appointments that survive a full calendar.
A PRACTICE, NOT A SOLO ACT
Founder-led. Team-delivered. BC-registered.
Real Life Counselling was founded in 2009 by Ashley Kreze, a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario and a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC, with more than 17 years of clinical experience.
When you reach out, we match you with the therapist on our team whose approach, experience, and personality fit what you’re navigating, not just whoever has the next opening. Every BC client is served under BCACC registration, to BC clinical standards.
Anxiety counselling in Surrey
Anxiety is one of the most common reasons Surrey residents look for a therapist. It looks like racing thoughts at 2 a.m., the knot in the chest on the bridge, the checking and re-checking, the dread that doesn’t have an obvious name, and the pressure of expectations, your own, your family’s, and your community’s, that never quite lets up.
Anxiety counselling gives you a private, structured place to work on it with someone trained in evidence-based approaches, including cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindfulness-based work. The work is practical: understanding what drives the anxiety, changing your relationship with the thoughts, and getting your range back. Sessions are online and confidential.
What we help Surrey clients work through
Real life rarely fits a single label. These are the most common reasons people in Surrey and the Fraser Valley reach out, and if yours isn’t here, that doesn’t mean we can’t help.
Anxiety
The kind that wakes you at 3 a.m. The kind that hums in the background of every conversation. The kind nobody else sees.
Burnout & stress
You’re doing fine on paper. In your body, you’re not. Therapy for the high-functioning version of running on empty.
Depression
Whether it’s the weight that won’t lift or the numbness that crept in slowly, there’s a path back.
Couples & relationships
Communication patterns, recurring fights, drifting apart, repairing after a rupture. Couples work that goes beyond techniques.
Parenting & family pressure
The mental load of a growing household: careers, kids’ schedules, aging parents, and expectations across generations.
Life transitions
A move, a separation, a new baby, a career change, settling into a new community. The work of becoming someone new.
Grief & loss
A person, a relationship, a version of yourself. Grief isn’t linear and it doesn’t run on a timeline.
Workplace & career
Difficult workplaces, leaving a role, returning from leave, and the pressures you can’t bring to HR.
How to start counselling in Surrey
No referral required. No waiting room. No bridge.
Reach out, tell us what’s going on
Fill out a short intake form. A few sentences is plenty. We’ll review it and reach back within one business day to set up a free 15-minute consultation.
Get matched with the right therapist
We match you with a therapist based on what you’re navigating and the kind of fit you need. Most Surrey clients begin within a week of reaching out.
Start sessions from home
50-minute sessions over secure, encrypted video. From your living room, your home office, or anywhere private. Evening and weekend appointments available.
Areas we serve
Surrey, the Fraser Valley, and everywhere in between.
Because sessions are online, location inside British Columbia isn’t a barrier. Common neighbourhoods and communities our Surrey clients come from:
Honest answers to Surrey client questions
Is your therapist actually registered in BC?
Do you offer anxiety counselling in Surrey?
My doctor referred me. What do I do?
Can I see someone in Surrey in person?
Are sessions covered by my insurance?
How much does counselling cost?
Can my partner and I do couples therapy from different locations?
How quickly can I start?
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Ready when you are, Surrey.
The longest part of starting therapy is usually the part before you reach out. Once you do, it gets easier.