Trish Walsh, MA is a Master Therapeutic Counsellor, counselling instructor, and workshop facilitator based in Vancouver, British Columbia, located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Trish’s clinical training and professional focus are grounded in Transpersonal Psychology, an integrative approach that weaves the spiritual and transcendent dimensions of human experience into the framework of contemporary Western psychology. This orientation supports both psychological healing and the realization of human potential, informed by emerging research in neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma recovery.
(See: National Institutes of Health overview of Transpersonal Psychology.)

Training, Education, and Professional Development

Trish provides evidence-based psychotherapy training, education, and applied resources for mental health professionals, organizations, and the general public. A central focus of her work is the development of Relational Intelligence—the capacity to attune to how we connect, communicate, and collaborate with others across personal, professional, cultural, and systemic contexts.

Relational Intelligence extends beyond emotional intelligence by emphasizing not only self-awareness, but also an understanding of how our behaviors, nervous systems, and relational patterns impact others and the systems in which we live and work.

Workshops & Training Topics

Trish offers both online and in-person workshops, including customized trainings for organizations, agencies, and professional groups. Frequently requested topics include:

  • Trauma-Informed and Resiliency-Informed Practice
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology: Research and Clinical Application
  • Strengthening Relational and Emotional Intelligence
  • Emotional Triggers: The Neurobiology, Formation, and Healing
  • Identifying and Healing Limiting Beliefs
  • The Neurobiology of Belief Formation
  • Transgenerational Transmission of Beliefs, Trauma, and Patterns
  • Emotional Regulation and Nervous System Resilience
  • Neuroplasticity: Research and Applied Practice
  • Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma
  • Indigenous Intergenerational Trauma (co-facilitated)
  • Expanding the Window of Tolerance
  • Strengthening Response Flexibility
  • Preventing and Healing Compassion Fatigue, Secondary Trauma, and Burnout
  • Applied therapeutic workshops including:
    • Family Systems Constellations
    • Therapeutic Portrayals and Re-enactments
    • Therapeutic Chairwork
    • Breathwork – the Science and Application of Therapeutic Breathwork

Private Counselling Practice

In her private counselling practice, Trish works from an integrative and client-centred approach, tailoring sessions to the individual goals, values, and lived experience of each client. Her work blends therapeutic counselling with coaching-informed tools, drawing from the following modalities:

  • Person-Centered (Rogerian) Therapy
  • Gestalt Therapy
  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
  • Bowen Family Systems Therapy
    (including the exploration, identification and healing of intergenerational trauma, and other systemic patterns)
  • Developmental Attachment Theory
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Interpersonal Neurobiology
  • Somatic Psychology
  • Positive Psychology
  • Mindfulness-Based Approaches
  • Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC – Dr. Kristin Neff & Dr. Christopher Germer)
  • Polyvagal Theory
  • HeartMath® techniques

These approaches are integrated within a Transpersonal framework, supporting both psychological healing and the cultivation of meaning, agency, and wholeness.

Teaching & Academic Experience

Trish has previously served as an instructor within a three-year professional counselling certification program, and has provided trauma-informed training for graduate-level students at Langara College.

Leadership & Systems-Level Experience

From 2008 to 2016, Trish served as Executive Director of a Canadian foundation focused on mental health and addiction. In this role, she worked closely with the UBC / Providence Health Care LEAF Chair in Addiction and Concurrent Disorders, as well as medical and research advisory committees comprised of Canadian and international experts. This work focused on advancing education, research translation, and public understanding of addiction, concurrent disorders, and mental health.

Trauma-Informed & Resilience-Informed Training

Since 2017, Trish has delivered evidence-based, strength-based, trauma-informed, and resilience-informed trainings—both online and in person—for counselling students, therapists, healthcare professionals, educators, and organizations.

Her first training in this area was developed in partnership with researchers from Dalhousie University’s Centre for Emotions and Health and hosted at UBC, providing interdisciplinary education to physicians, physiotherapists, and mental health professionals on the relationship between unresolved trauma and physical illness (somatic symptom disorders).

Since that time, Trish has delivered trauma- and resilience-informed education to over 4,800 participants, including front-line workers, educators, school counsellors, corporations, sport organizations, non-profit agencies, provincial health authorities, and members of the general public.

Her work includes specialized training on intergenerational and transgenerational trauma, as well as co-facilitated workshops focused on healing Indigenous intergenerational and residential school trauma.

For additional details, visit: www.trishwalsh.ca/trauma-training

Coaching 

In addition to her counselling practice, Trish has been a Co-Active Life Coach since 2008. She completed her coaching training through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in San Francisco, California and is one of only a hanfful of coaches who focus in the area of trauma-informed and transpersonal coaching: integrating nervous system regulation, meaning-making, and relational awareness into coaching practice. For more information on Transpersonal Coaching, see:  Transpersonal coaching.

For more detailed information on these areas of focus just click on the ‘About‘ tab, above.

At the foundation of all of Trish’s work is the tenet that with deeper understanding, our struggles can be tremendous opportunities for growth and transformational expansion of our relationships, the world, and of ourselves.

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Featured Links, Videos & Podcasts: 

Atlas of Emotions http://atlasofemotions.org

For information on In-Person Trauma-Informed and Resiliency-Informed Trainings held at the University of British Columbia, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, please see: https://trishwalsh.ca/trauma-training/

A beautiful short claymation film by Ainslie Henderson about the ego defense system (inner critic)  and a path to healing: https://vimeo.com/45281618  

“What is Trauma?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJfmfkDQb14&t=149s

“Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about…”

Viktor Frankl (author of Man’s Search for Meaning):  ” Why Believe in Others? “

The neurobiology of memory, and healing implicit emotional memory:

“Neuroscience is catching up to psychotherapy” – Dr Daniela Schiller

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