Counselling • Speaking • Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy • Writing

The Questions We Ask Shape The Stories We Can Tell

Christine Dennstedt, PhD, MA, RCC-ACS

For more than twenty-five years, I've been accompanying people through some of life's most disorienting passages—moments when old stories no longer fit and something new is trying to emerge.

I keep returning to the same questions: What is trying to become audible in this moment? What stories have shaped how we understand ourselves? And what becomes possible when we create enough space to hear what matters most?

My work is grounded in narrative therapy, an approach that recognizes that the stories we've inherited about ourselves are not the only stories available to us. Whether I am working with individuals, couples, families, or people integrating transformative experiences, I am interested in how people reclaim agency, reconnect with their values, and participate more fully in their lives.

I completed my Master of Counselling in 2002 and my PhD in 2010. I teach and present across North America and am faculty at the Vancouver School for Narrative Therapy. I also work as part of a team offering psychedelic-assisted therapy through Health Canada's Special Access Program.

My writing project, After the Medicine, explores identity transitions, agency, and what comes next. Through essays, reflections, and practices, I examine how people navigate change, question inherited stories, and find their way toward lives that feel more fully their own.

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Counselling Services

Offered in-person in Whistler, BC & online

Individual Counselling

Life transitions, relationship challenges, grief, recovery, anxiety, and questions of identity often invite us to pause and reconsider the stories shaping our lives. My approach is grounded in narrative therapy and a deep respect for people's own wisdom. Together, we create space to notice what matters, reclaim agency, and respond to life's challenges in ways that feel more aligned with who you are becoming.
Couples Counselling

Relationships often become places where old stories, expectations, and patterns collide. Couples counselling offers an opportunity to slow down, listen differently, and explore what each person hopes for in the relationship. Together we work toward greater understanding, connection, and the possibility of creating new ways of relating that reflect shared values and intentions.
Psilocybin- Assisted Psychotherapy

Psychedelic experiences can open new perspectives, illuminate forgotten possibilities, and invite profound questions about identity, meaning, and change. Through Health Canada's Special Access Program, psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy may be available for individuals experiencing treatment-resistant depression or end-of-life distress. My work focuses not only on the experience itself, but on what happens afterward, the integration, meaning-making, and choices that shape what comes next.
Identity Transformation & Recovery

Life transitions, relationship challenges, grief, recovery, anxiety, and questions of identity often invite us to pause and reconsider the stories shaping our lives. My approach is grounded in narrative therapy and a deep respect for people's own wisdom. Together, we create space to notice what matters, reclaim agency, and respond to life's challenges in ways that feel more aligned with who you are becoming.