Why "Whole Hearted"?

When I first started this journey I believed that I was broken. I believed that if I worked harder, changed enough and tried to become someone different I could finally heal. The more I believed I was broken, the more I found about myself to "work on". I constantly thought that one day I would find the right answer and be fixed. So many different places, therapists, groups and people solidified this belief. As I continued along my journey I noticed I was not really getting better. I was just searching for the next thing about me to fix. It was a revolutionary act of rebellion when I found out that actually, the only thing "wrong" with me was the mistaken belief I held that I was somehow, not whole. Once I viewed myself as whole and complete, just as I am right now, everything changed. I now live my life in a different way, and I no longer buy into anyone or anything that tries to convince me there is something wrong with me. Sometimes the journey of healing means finally seeing how whole we actually are, and have been, this whole time. Perhaps that will be our work together too.

More about Marissa (she/her)

Marissa Boyce is a therapist and a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BCACC. She also an educator, and a group facilitator who has degrees in Psychology and Education, as well as a Masters in Counselling degree from City University of Seattle (MC). Marissa has worked as an educator and a counsellor for youth and adults over the last 20 years and has lived and worked in Canada as well as in Europe.

She loves working with groups, families, and couples and approaches them with a systemic and relational lens. Marissa specializes in helping individuals and couples understand, investigate, and repattern their relationship histories. She works with couples and individuals around sex and relationships. She also has extensive knowledge and experience in addictions, narcissistic abuse, and recovery from codependency.
Marissa has also created the first online narcissistic abuse support group in Western Canada. She has a special interest in trauma therapy, narrative therapy, sex therapy and solution-focused approaches and has been helping people understand themselves and their relationships through her work.

She also has been working directly with Patrick Teahan LICSW to learn the RRP model and runs Childhood Trauma Recovery Groups for people all over North America to learn, heal and recover from CPTSD, CEN and childhood abuse and trauma.