Inspiring stories. Practical advice. Local support.


Scroll below to find links to practical tools, local resources and wellness webinars based on the course I regularly run for the Canadian Mental Health Association.

From tight deadlines to conflicts with your neighbour, obstacles come in all shapes and sizes. The biggest one I’ve ever faced was an aggressive cancer.

At first I felt outmatched and unprepared. But as my treatment got underway, I discovered I had plenty of coping skills and tools I could leverage โ€” acquired through a lifetime of blunderful misadventures.

And thatโ€™s what these resources are all about: the little things you can do and the inner qualities you can cultivate to make whatever challenge youโ€™re facing a little bit easier.

โ€” Josh

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Resilience Psychotherapy

Resilience Psychotherapy is a trusted virtual clinic serving British Columbia and Quebec, dedicated to providing comprehensive mental health services. Our offerings include detailed assessments (mental health, ASD, ADHD), individual and couples therapy, and group workshops.

We specialize in helping clients harness their strengths, navigate challenges, and enhance relationships. With a compassionate and professional approach, we empower individuals to achieve meaningful growthโ€”all from the convenience of virtual care. Begin your journey toward resilience today. Learn more.


Bloom Counselling

Weโ€™re a team of BIPOC Registered Clinical Counsellors dedicated to creating a space where you can show up, just as you are.

Specializing in trauma, anxiety, relationships, burnout & personal growth, we blend evidence-based approaches with lived experience to offer warm-hearted, effective therapy.

Our approach seeks to honour the richness of your identity, including pieces like culture, gender and sexual orientation. Whether it’s healing trauma or figuring out your next step, weโ€™ll approach it together, with curiosity, honesty, and a bit of humour along the way.

Learn more.


Strength Counselling Services

Strength Counselling Services offers online-only, affordable, culturally sensitive therapy. Our licensed, experienced therapists prioritize client needs, maintain ethical standards, and provide expert guidance. We offer comprehensive goal assessments, regular progress checks, and collaboration with other professionals. Ensuring privacy, transparency, and fostering mental wellness, we help clients manage challenges, improve relationships, and achieve personal growth. Learn more.

Wellness Webinars

Rev up your resilience while enjoying a few laughs with this 16-part webinar series. Each module offers funny and heartfelt video lessons, reflection questions and practical tips and tools on how to make the tough times in life a little less tough.

Resilience Toolbox

Access dozens of how-to wellness guides and activities โ€” including breathing exercises, motivation maximizers, mindfulness practices and more. Because prickly problems demand well-equipped problem solvers!

Simply Blunderful

Funny stories. Good advice. Oodles of doodles. Enjoy this illustrated guide to flaming tennis balls, camping catastrophes and the many obstacles life throws your way.

Little Lauryn Lollipop and the Long Road Home

Discover wellness tips and tools wrapped inside a fantastical adventure for all ages.

Fireflies: Small gifts of gratitude

What fireflies light your skies? An inspirational poem about life’s everyday awesomeness.

Book Josh as a virtual guest speaker

Add funny stories, good advice and oodles of doodles to your next wellness or mental health event.


Directory of local supports

We can all use support from time to time. And throughout the Vancouver area, youโ€™ll discover all kinds of people ready to lend a helping hand. Explore the directory below to find local therapists and other wellness experts in the community. Got a suggestion to add to the directory? Let me know at joshmartinink@gmail.com.

Affirming Art Therapy & Counselling Services

Alpine Counselling Clinic

Amy Johnston, Registered Social Worker, MSW, RSW

Authentic Connections

Bloom Counselling

Catalyst Counselling

Charting Pathways Counselling

Chipperfield Mobile Physio & Wellness

Ciel Community Counselling

Collective Healing

Connect-IN Counselling

Counselling Home

Decipher Counselling

Dr. Jesse Elterman, R.Psych.

East Vancouver Counselling

Esse Counselling

Expressive Wellness Counselling + Consulting

Hi Five Wellness

Homecoming Integrative Counselling

Imera Counselling

In Process Clinical Counselling

Intrepid Threapy Collective

Justice Skinner Therapy

Kennedy Lewis Counselling

Ksenia Belova, Counselling & Psychotherapy

Latitude Counselling

Latitude Wellness

Leaning Tree Therapy

Life as Ceremony mentorship programs

Link Psychological

Lourdeaux Counselling & Supervision

My Wise Self Counselling & Consulting

Next Step Online Thearpy

Nicole Haworth Therapy

Open Space Counselling

Quoin Counselling โ€” Relationship and Family Therapy

Resilience Psychotherapy

Rhett-Lawson Mohajer, Registered Psychotherapist

Rosie Wilbur Counselling

SADE Counselling

Sam Trivett, Counsellor

Sara Brown Arts

Soul Puzzle Clinical Counselling

SpeakEasy Counselling & Psychotherapy

Strong Counselling

Tanya Barr Counselling

The Centre for Gay Counselling

The Den Wellness Collective

The Intentional Path

The PTSD Clinic

The Rooted Method Counselling

The Sereda Psychotherapy Group

Therapy Through Arts

Three Sisters Counselling

Thrive Life Counselling & Wellness

Vancouver Eating Disorder Counselling

Vancouver Psychology Centre

Virginia Chomley, Registered Clinical Counsellor

Well Health Counselling

Wellness North

Wellness Talks

West Coast Adult ADHD

West Coast Centre for Sex Therapy

Willful Minds Counselling Services

For more options, visit PsychologyToday.

Acupoint Wellness

Alliance Wellness Clinic

Ananta Wellness & Osteopathy

Barefoot Osteopathy

Baseline Health & Wellness

Best Osteopathy

Bonjour Osteopathy

Broadway Wellness

Casa Copal Yoga + Wellness

Electra Health

Elements Wellness Centre & Studio

Empower Health

Evolve Wellness Centre

Exhale Yoga Retreats

Fairview Osteopathy

Float House Vancouver

Goldencare Wellness

Harbor Wellness Spa

Havyn Hot Yoga

Hot Yoga 101

Just Add Water Yoga & SUP

Kenzie Wellness Centre

Life in Motion Osteopathy

Mat Collective

Modo Yoga East Vancouver

North Shore Wellness Centre

One Yoga Vancouver

Orijin Yoga + Pilates

Osteo Room

Pain and Motion Osteopathy

Pups Yoga Vancouver

Ritual Urban Retreat

Smile Thai Wellness

Soul Wellness Center

Sparsh Wellness Retreat

Stedman Osteopathy

StudioHealth

Sun Bliss Yoga

Teja Wellness

The Prana Lounge

Vancity Osteopathy

Vancouver Osteopathy Centre

Water’s Edge Massage Therapy

West Coast Kinetics

West End Wellness

West Vancouver Wellness Centre

WEWELL Studios

Wholistic Osteopathy

Yaletown Wellness