Jody Lightfoot

Jody Lightfoot is a Certified Canadian Counsellor (CCC #11253451) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association and a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC #24844) with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors.

She holds a Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta, a Master of Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia, and a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University.

Jody’s work integrates clinical counselling, perinatal and postpartum care, somatic care, and nature-based therapy, with a focus on perinatal and postpartum, perimenopause, midlife health, late-diagnosed ADHD, and life transitions.

Hi! I’m Jody (she/they), a Registered Clinical Counsellor based in North Vancouver, on the unceeded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɬ). My practice is a place where you can find steadiness, clarity, and support as you navigate change, reclaim your rhythm, and reconnect with what matters.

Over the past two decades I’ve lived and worked across the globe from London and Tokyo to Singapore, Toronto, Vancouver, and now back to the Coast Mountains. In that time I’ve worn many hats (educator, coach, consultant, community-builder), which gives me a broad and nuanced understanding of how culture, context, and identity shape our inner lives.

My training in education, human kinetics (kinesiology), and counselling psychology combines with lived experience to create a counselling style that is trauma-informed, body-aware, strengths-based, and transformative.

Whether our time together is a single session, a season, or a longer journey, I’m here to walk alongside you as you find your flow, ground in what feels true, and step into healing with clarity and compassion.

Hello from Deep Cove!

Work With Me Now

Walking the Path

Jody Lightfoot standing at the ocean, smiling and wearing a white shirt

  • I hold a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, a Master’s of Human Kinetics, and a Bachelor’s degree in Education.

    I have fulfilled all requirements to become a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) in British Columbia and a Certified Clinical Counsellor (CCC) across Canada. I am currently awaiting formal designation through the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC) and the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)

    • Activate Personal Growth

    • Anxiety & Anger Reduction

    • ADHD Strengths

    • Career Coaching

    • Depression Management

    • End of Life Counselling

    • Effective Goal-Setting

    • Enhancing Intimacy & Sexual Enjoyment

    • Gentle Parenting

    • Grief & Loss Management

    • Increasing Wellness

    • LGBTQ2 & Gender Identity

    • Life Coaching

    • Procrastination Reduction

    • Improving Relationship

    • Stress management

    • Managing Life Transitions

  • I use many modes of therapy including but not limited to: Feminist Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Strengths-based Positive Psychology, Person Centred Therapy (PCT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Existential Therapy.

    Together, we’ll explore what approaches feel most supportive in helping you reach your goals.

    • Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)

    • Attachment-based Therapy

    • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

    • Narrative Therapy

    • Positive Psychology

    • Strengths-based Therapy

    • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Therapy (MBSR)

    Somatic / Body Healing

    • Ecotherapy | Nature Therapy

    • Grounding

    • Breathwork

    • Meditation

    • Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapy

    • Play Therapy

    • Visualization

  • To keep therapy as accessible and supportive as possible, currently, I am able to offer a new client Accessible Rate of $95 per 50-minutes session.

    Beginning May 2026, my standard rate for new clients will be $150 per 50-minute session.

    Clients who begin with me before then will continue at their original $95 rate as a thank-you for supporting my early practice.

    Insurance & Coverage

    Most extended health plans in British Columbia cover sessions with a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC).

    If you’re not sure whether your plan includes counselling coverage, I’m happy to help you find out — just reach out and I can walk you through your options.

  • Every person’s path is unique, so our sessions will be too.
    Depending on your goals and what feels right for you, I draw from a range of evidence-based approaches, including:

    Feminist Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT), Strengths-Based Positive Psychology, Person-Centred Therapy (PCT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and Existential Therapy.

    Together, we’ll explore which approach best supports your growth and helps you move toward the life you want.

    ✨ A Note About My Style

    As a counsellor with ADHD, I’ve learned that I do my best work when I honour my neurodivergent wiring. My sessions are often intuitive, creative, and flexible — allowing space for what feels most important in the moment.

    You might notice I occasionally run a minute or two behind; I always give that time back. I also use Heidi Health, a secure, FOIPPA- and PIPA-compliant AI tool that helps me take session notes efficiently so I can stay fully present with you.

    ADHD brings strengths that often enhance therapy: curiosity, deep focus, and an ability to make meaningful connections across complex ideas. Still, I deeply value your feedback — if something doesn’t feel aligned or we wander off course, just say so. Our collaboration works best when it’s honest and adaptive.

    Sharing this part of myself is about transparency and reducing stigma, and about ensuring that the work we do together always feels supportive, effective, and right for you.

How we can work together — in 3 main ways

1. Find Your Flow

ADHD & Neurodivergence Counselling

Whether you’re newly diagnosed or still figuring out how your brain works best, this path helps you create systems that work for you, not against you. Together we’ll explore how your environment, energy, and focus patterns interact—and design routines that let your strengths shine. Expect momentum, humour, and small wins that add up to real change.

Harness your superpowers.

  • … you are newly diagnosed or late-identified folks, perfectionists and procrastinators, students and professionals feeling scattered, stuck, or stalled. Also great for parents navigating family ADHD dynamics.

    Common themes: motivation, time/energy management, emotional regulation, rejection sensitivity, self-worth, relationship repair.

  • Our sessions will take place online via Zoom, offering the same depth and effectiveness as in-person therapy—while saving you the time and energy of commuting.

    If you prefer to meet in person, I also offer sessions in downtown Vancouver through Peak Resilience. Please book those appointments directly through their website.

    Our sessions will include:

    • Practical, compassionate structure based on your goals and priorities, doable systems, and accountability as you want it.

    • Somatic/experiential exercises for nervous-system regulation (move from freeze to flow).

    • Skills from CBT, ACT, Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Strengths-based coaching.

    • Tools for communication, boundary-setting, and shame resilience.

    • Optional nature-based/ecotherapy sessions (walk-and-talk or ocean-adjacent).

  • Most clients start by meeting weekly for about a month while we build stability and momentum.

    As things begin to settle, we often shift to bi-weekly sessions for a few months to sustain progress and deepen insight.

    From there, we move to monthly or as-needed check-ins to maintain your growth and respond to life as it evolves.

  • I offer the standard BC counsellor rate of $150 per 50-minute session. If cost is a concern, please reach out — we can explore options to make therapy sustainable and accessible.

    Payment by debit or credit card is due at the end of each session. Receipts include my professional association ID for insurance reimbursement where applicable.

2. Navigate Change

Life Transitions, Identity Growth & Nature-Based Therapy

Change can shake your sense of direction — but it can also open terrain you didn’t know was possible.

Through nature-based therapy, we use the rhythms of the natural world to support you through major life transitions — shifts in identity, relationships, career, health, parenthood, perimenopause, or menopause. Being outdoors can help regulate the nervous system, widen perspective, and create space to think more clearly.

Together, we explore what’s changing beneath the surface, tend to what feels destabilized, and strengthen your capacity to move forward with steadiness and self-trust.

Nature offers reflection, metaphor, grounding, and movement — especially when you feel stuck.

Navigate change with clarity & self-trust.

  • … you are going through a new venture or career loss, pregnancy & postpartum, perimenopause menopause, relationship shifts, grief and identity re-orientation, and relocation/immigration.

    Common themes: uncertainty, overwhelm, burnout, decision fatigue, meaning/purpose, values alignment.

  • Our sessions will take place online via Zoom, offering the same depth and effectiveness as in-person therapy—while saving you the time and energy of commuting.

    If you prefer to meet in person, I also offer sessions in downtown Vancouver through Peak Resilience. Please book those appointments directly through their website.

    Our sessions may include:

    • A calm, structured container for reflection and forward movement.

    • Values mapping (ACT), narrative re-authoring, and a strengths-based approach.

    • Targeted skills from CBT, SFT, and Existential Positive Psychology to reduce stress and build momentum.

    • Somatic grounding for anxiety/anger, and rituals for closure/beginnings.

  • Most clients find that meaningful change unfolds over about six months.

    We usually begin with more frequent sessions to build momentum, then space them out as confidence and clarity grow.

    In total, you can expect around 10–15 sessions, supported by gentle micro-practices between meetings to help you integrate what we explore into daily life.

  • I offer the standard BC counsellor rate of $150 per 50-minute session. If cost is a concern, please reach out — we can explore options to make therapy sustainable and accessible.

    Payment by debit or credit card is due at the end of each session. Receipts include my professional association ID for insurance reimbursement where applicable.

3. Reconnect & Restore

Women’s Health & Well-Being

Perimenopause is more than irregular periods.

It can feel like anxiety that won’t settle, disrupted sleep, brain fog, sudden rage, burnout that doesn’t improve with rest, lowered stress tolerance, and the unsettling thought: I don’t feel like myself.

Midlife is also when long-standing patterns surface — including late-diagnosed ADHD, executive dysfunction, sensory overwhelm, and the realization that you’ve been masking or over-functioning for years.

This work helps you untangle what is hormonal, what is nervous system overload, what may be ADHD-related, and what is the accumulated weight of caregiving, productivity pressure, and self-abandonment.

Make sense of the shift & build strength from the inside out.

  • Together, we:

    • Make sense of mood swings, irritability, anxiety, and sleep disruption

    • Address burnout, people-pleasing, and chronic over-functioning

    • Explore late-diagnosed ADHD and shifting cognitive patterns

    • Support emotional regulation and stress recovery

    • Rebuild self-trust in a changing body

    My work is trauma-informed and nervous-system aware. We go at your pace, focusing on restoring stability, improving daily functioning, and building safety in your body during this hormonal and life-stage transition.

    This is a space to stop blaming yourself — and start understanding what your body and brain are asking for.

    • You are navigating perimenopause or menopause and feel anxious, irritable, exhausted, foggy, or unlike yourself

    • Sleep disruption, mood swings, or burnout are affecting your work or relationships

    • You feel dismissed, confused, or unsupported in medical or family systems

    • You are questioning identity, sexuality, partnership, career, or purpose

    • You sense this stage is asking for change — but you don’t want to implode your life to find it

  • Our sessions will take place online via Zoom, offering the same depth and effectiveness as in-person therapy—while saving you the time and energy of commuting.

    If you prefer to meet in person, I also offer sessions in downtown Vancouver through Peak Resilience. Please book those appointments directly through their website.

    Our sessions may include:

    • Menopause-informed psychoeducation
      Understanding hormonal and nervous system changes so you can stop blaming yourself for physiological shifts.

    • Feminist, trauma-informed therapy
      Exploring how gendered expectations, productivity culture, caregiving roles, and medical dismissal shape your experience — and reclaiming authority over your body and decisions.

    • Somatic nervous system regulation
      Gentle body-based practices to support sleep, reduce anxiety, ease irritability, and build internal steadiness.

    • Narrative Therapy
      Separating you from the problem (“I am failing” becomes “My nervous system is overwhelmed”) and reshaping your story with clarity and compassion.

    • Attachment-aware, harm-reduction support
      Grounded coping strategies for mood, relationships, and stability during transition.

    • Clear, realistic goals
      Sustainable shifts in boundaries, energy management, emotional regulation, and self-trust.
      You set the pace. I bring steadiness, structure, and tools.

  • This work unfolds gently over time.

    Most clients meet one or two times per month for about a year, creating steady space for reflection, nervous system repair, and integration.

    During more intense seasons — sleep disruption, acute stress, major decisions — we can add additional sessions to help you feel supported and anchored as you move through change.

  • I offer the standard BC counsellor rate of $150 per 50-minute session. If cost is a concern, please reach out — we can explore options to make therapy sustainable and accessible.

    Payment by debit or credit card is due at the end of each session. Receipts include my professional association ID for insurance reimbursement where applicable.

My Approach

Evidence-Based, Body-Aware, and Rooted in Relationship

I draw from a range of modalities, including:
CBT • DBT • ACT • EFT • Feminist Therapy • Narrative Therapy • Positive Psychology • Somatic & Body-Based Approaches • Mindfulness • Motivational Interviewing • Trauma-Informed Practice

My compass is intersectional and anti-oppressive, honouring how identity, gender, neurodivergence, culture, and systems shape our emotional landscapes.

Sessions with me are collaborative, flexible, and grounded. Some days call for structure and strategy; others for softness, embodiment, or wider reflection. My job is to meet you — and your nervous system — exactly where you are.

My vibe

My practice is a good fit for people who are:

  • neurodivergent or exploring their neurodivergence

  • navigating major life transitions or identity shifts

  • wanting nervous-system-aware, whole-body alignment

  • drawn to nature-based therapy or outdoor counselling

  • seeking tools, clarity, movement, or a renewed sense of self

  • craving a therapeutic relationship that is energizing, real, and original as you are

If you’re looking to feel more grounded, more you, and more confident in the direction you’re headed — you’re in the right place.

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