Serving online therapy to clients throughout British Columbia
Providing online disability-affirmative therapy, chronic illness counselling, chronic pain support, and health advocacy for adults with physical disabilities and their families throughout British Columbia.
Looking for a therapist who understands disability, chronic illness, chronic pain, medical trauma, or navigating inaccessible systems? I provide disability-affirming online therapy for adults across British Columbia who are coping with healthcare experiences, identity shifts, grief, advocacy fatigue, accessibility barriers, and adjusting to disability.
Online Therapy Services
Online Disability Therapy
Whether you have a disability from birth or acquired an injury later in life, living in a world that wasn’t built for you is exhausting.
I can help you:
understand how your disability may be impacting your mental health
give you the space to debrief your experiences that isn’t about fixing them or finding solutions, just bearing witness
reframe and manage your thoughts, emotions relating to living life with a disability
develop skills to cope with daily life to not only survive - but thrive
Online Health Advocacy
I know how it feels when you're advocating at the top of your lungs but it feels like no one's listening.
I can help you feel more confident in your role as “professional patient” - you have been studying your body for your whole life, after all.
Online Health Advocacy for Family/Caregivers
As a member of a support system for someone you love with chronic illness or disability, you also need and deserve unique support.
In a way, you also have their diagnosis, and consider what it has taken for them to learn how to thrive. You’re allowed to be finding your way to thrive, too.
About Counselling & Health Advocacy by Jenna Reed-Côté
Hello! I'm Jenna Reed-Côté, MSW, RSW
I became a therapist because I wanted to be one of the helping professionals I needed growing up with a physical disability and chronic health issues.
As a Registered Social Worker and therapist, I specialize in supporting adults living with chronic illness and disability, including those navigating chronic pain, medical trauma, accessibility barriers, advocacy fatigue, and major life changes related to health.
Living with a disability or chronic illness can be exhausting. Sometimes you're managing symptoms. Sometimes you're managing healthcare. Sometimes you're managing other people's opinions about both.
My goal is to create a calm, collaborative space where you feel heard, understood, and supported—not judged or talked over.
As someone with lived experience of chronic illness and disability, I understand that sometimes the hardest part is not your condition—it's navigating a world that was not built with you in mind.
Together, we'll explore what is getting in the way, identify what is already helping, and build tools that actually fit your life.
Because if a strategy only works in theory, it is not much use on a Tuesday afternoon.
Outside the therapy room, I have been an ambassador with the Rick Hansen Foundation since 2017, speaking with schools and communities across Canada about accessibility and inclusion.
In 2021, I led the Vancouver team participating in AccessNow's accessibility mapping project, which contributed to the largest accessibility survey ever conducted in Canada.
Getting Started with Online Therapy
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Connect with us via the intake for, send us an email at jenna@counsellingandhealthadvocacy.ca or give us a call at 604-200-2927.
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You deserve to have whomever you need on your team and that starts with a free 20-min virtual consultation to ensure you find the right fit.
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Book your first virtual appointment.
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During sessions you can expect to discuss various aspects of your life. I’ll ask you questions, to help gain a better understanding, explore different perspectives and we will set up therapeutic goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Before booking a session, please make sure that your health benefits cover services provided by a registered social worker (which I am).
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Ontario and British Columbia, Canada.
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I only provide virtual services.
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An hour-long session is $135.
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I have my Master of Social Work degree from Dalhousie University (2018) and my Bachelor of Social Work degree from University of Victoria (2012).
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Disability-affirming therapy has a therapist working with a client with a disability, without the focus on the condition. The goal is to empower the client based on their strengths, while taking a holistic approach, recognizing the body, the mind and the spirit work together.
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If you have navigated the healthcare system, you know it’s not easy!
Whether you’re wondering if you’re allowed to speak up, how you’re supposed to manage your symptoms or medication, the anxiety of preparing for appointments or procedures/surgery - not only are you not alone, you are the EXPERT on you!
I can help you process what can be an overwhelming process - mind, body and spirit - how to find your voice to communicate with your healthcare team, family and friends and find ways to reframe and get creative to cope.
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I find it important to acknowledge that your family and even close friends can also “have” your diagnosis.
How? Why? They are on this journey with you but are experiencing it from a different vantage point. If you are having surgery, your family and friends, who are there supporting you, are also watching you navigate it and - it ain’t easy to watch someone you love going through pain.
Your support system also needs support, though it may look a little (or a lot) different. They more they can get their own unique support, the better able they can be to support you.
Email: info@counsellingandhealthadvocacy.ca
Call: 778-486-2346