STEPHANIE McCUNE PHD, RCCg

Stephanie McCune PhD, RCC

Hello, my name is Stephanie and I am grateful to have been working in the field of health and human services for over 23 years. I am humbled to provide clinical counselling services to individuals, families, couples and groups. In all of my interactions I centre safety, collaboration, trauma informed practice, cultural humility, and compassion. I hold a Masters in Counselling Psychology and a PhD with a specialization in the field of substance use and addiction. I work alongside youth and adults involved with alcohol and/or other drugs and strive to meet people where they are at with both a strength-based and collaborative lens. My deep passion involves supporting family members and carers affected by substance use who may be seeking services in their own right or a safe place to share their experience as they navigate the rollercoaster of loving a person involved with substances.

I am available to assist children, youth, adults, families, and couples experiencing stressors of mental health and/or substance use challenges, trauma, life transitions, health behaviour change COVID, parenting/caregiving, grief and loss, or family conflict.

As a Registered Clinical Counsellor, I place tremendous importance on the wisdom and insider knowledge of the people I works with.

Areas of Focus:

  • Substance Use

  • Couples Counselling/Relationship Issues

  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

  • Parenting Support

  • Trauma Therapy

  • Psychedelic Integration Therapy

  • Support for major life transitions, such as support to post-secondary students

  • Stress Management

  • Family Counselling

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

Education and Training:
Bachelor Degree in Social Work, Masters in Counselling Psychology and a PhD with a specialization in the field of substance use and addiction

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Mate)

  • Collaborative Therapy

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

  • Solution Focused Therapy

  • Motivational Interviewing

  • Family Systems Theory

  • Polyvagal Theory

  • Narrative Therapy: Relational-Informed Couples Therapy

  • Somatic Therapy: Embodied Breath and Body

  • Strength-Based Therapy

  • Psychedelic Integration Therapy

  • Psycilocibin Assisted Psychotherapy and MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy: Therapsil Canada

I can direct bill to the First Nations Health Authority for services.

In addition to my work as a counsellor I am thrilled to provide services as an educator. It brings me tremendous joy to facilitate and host professional development and knowledge exchange events. As a Professor with the Vancouver Island University, Child and Youth Care faculty, I am passionate about supporting the learning goals of those working in health and helping services.

My education contributions promote helping practices and approaches that foster compassion, inclusion and partnership, and that address the stigma, shame and isolation often encountered by people affected by mental health and substance use. As such I have embarked on my own professional development and training with the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, Collaborative Therapy Institute, and in the areas of Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy to name a few.

My PhD focus and ongoing research centres the voices of those often not heard in the helping field (families, caregivers, practitioners). I have written the research report Disrupting Standard Mode: A Big Picture Story of Family Inclusion in Substance Use Services and am currently writing a new book on family resources in substance use care.

To connect with Stephanie please email stephaniemccunecounselling@gmail.com

"A designation of BC Association of Clinical Counsellors"