Marion Fallding  |  Registered Clinical Counsellor

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Marion Fallding (M.A., RCC) is a counsellor in Vancouver, BC with a specialized focus on eating disorders counselling. Marion Fallding has over 25 years experience as a counsellor working in mental health, psychiatric outpatient services, and in private practice. Marion Fallding was the eating disorder specialist at Fraser Health's Mental Health Services for 18 years and has also worked extensively with women who were survivors of trauma.

Marion Fallding shares her time between private practice at Well Woman Counselling and her counselling position at Burnaby Mental Health. Marion works with adolescents, adults, couples, and families facing a wide variety of issues including eating disorders, trauma, grief & loss, anxiety, and depression. Marion finds group work to be a highly effective approach and facilitates an assertiveness group workshop at Well Woman Counselling.

Marion Fallding has a specialized focus on counselling for eating disorders:

• Anorexia
• Binge eating
• Bulimia
• Compulsive overeating
• Emotional eating

Addidtional areas of interest:

• Anger management
• Anxiety, panic, excessive worrying, obsessive thoughts
• Assertiveness training
• Child & adolescent therapy
• Communication and boundaries
• Couples, marriage, and family therapy
• Depression
• Grief & loss, grief recovery
• Group therapy
• Life and career transitions
• Personal growth (self-esteem, confidence, stress reduction, self-care)
• Relationships (couples, families, colleagues, parenting)
• Trauma in women, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma stemming from childhood experiences
• Women's issues

Counselling approach:

Marion brings an attachment-based approach to her understanding of people’s challenges. Early experiences in our families shape our ability to manage our emotions and form relationships with others. Some of us are lucky enough to have had warm, nurturing relationships with our parents which allow us to be ‘securely’ attached (this is true of about 60% of the population). Others are not so lucky and develop an ‘insecure’ attachment, which can be either ‘avoidant’, ‘anxious’, or ‘disorganized’. Avoidant attachment results from insensitive parenting. As a result, you dismiss the value of relationships. Anxious or ambivalent attachment results from inconsistent parenting, where sometimes our emotional needs as a child were met and sometimes they were not, resulting in clinging on to others in relationships for fear of abandonment. Disorganized attachment is the most damaging form of insecure attachment and results from abuse and neglect and forms expectations that you will receive more of the same in relationships – abuse and neglect. Therapy, as well as healing relationships outside of therapy, can help you move to a more secure place. Understanding the dynamics of insecure attachment can help you let go of self-blame. Individual or group therapy in a safe and supportive environment can help you to let go of adaptive responses that once allowed you to survive, but that may interfere in your life now.

Marion uses a variety of therapies and techniques depending on the client's needs:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Motivational Interviewing (MI)
• Expressive and play therapy (sand tray)

Education:

• M.A., Counselling Psychology, Simon Fraser University

Designations:

• Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC #5180), BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
• Approved provider for BC's Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP)

Professional associations:

• BC Association of Clinical Counsellors

Contact Marion Fallding:

• Book an appointment with Marion using the online scheduling system
• Email Marion for more information