Amber Stoby
I am currently completing my practicum as part of my Master’s degree in Clinical Counselling. My approach is grounded in authenticity and respect for the complexity of individual experience. My focus is how people come to understand themselves, and how our sense of self is shaped through relationships, culture, and broader social and systemic influences.
While I continue to develop an integrative approach, my thinking is currently influenced by existential and narrative approaches to counselling, centering clients’ agency, values, and lived experience. I am also interested in strengths-based and socially conscious approaches that remain attentive to power and context.
I am interested in supporting individuals navigating uncertainty, life transitions, loss, substance use and loneliness while exploring change and belonging. My aim is to develop a practice that invites creative collaboration with clients in exploring meaning and living in alignment with their values.
*** Amber is a student practitioner and an RCC Candidate. She is supervised by both Leah Pagels and Geoffrey Argue.
Education &Training
Masters of Counselling- City University (In Progress).
Bachelor of Arts- McMaster University, 1996
Addiction Care and Treatment Online Certificate-BC Centre on Substance Use (2025)
Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training – Crisis Prevention Institute (2025)
Dementia Friendly Communities & Lived Experience workshops – BC Alzheimer Society (2025)
SafeTALK – Suicide Awareness Training -Living Works (2023)
Anti-Oppression & Equity in the Workplace Training – Evenings and Weekends Consulting (2023)
Psychological First Aid – Veterans Affairs Canada, 2022
De-Escalating Potentially Violent Situations- CTRI (2022)
Responding to Opioid Overdose/ Naloxone Training – Vancouver Coastal Health (2022-2025)
Decolonize First workshop – Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee, 2019
Areas of Support and Approaches
•Identity and self-understanding
• Life transitions and change
• Substance use and recovery
• Grief, loss, and loneliness
• Questions of meaning, purpose, and belonging
• Self-worth and confidence
• Relationship and interpersonal challenges
• Stress, coping, and emotional well-being
Fees for Amber’s Services
Individual Session 50min- $70.00