Royce Dueck  |  Registered Professional Counsellor

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Royce Dueck (M.ScN., RN, RPC) is a registered professional counsellor with a specialized focus on reproductive health counselling for women, couples, and families in Vancouver, BC.

Royce Dueck shares her time between private practice at Well Woman Counselling and her position at the BC Reproductive Mental Health Program where she provides therapy to individuals, couples, and groups for issues related to postpartum depression, infertility, pregnancy loss, parenting, and PMS/PMDD.

Royce has over 13 years experience as a counsellor at BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre providing support to women and couples in a variety of areas, including reproductive mental health, reproductive & sexual health, pregnancy loss, recurrent miscarriage, pregnancy decision-making, and breast health.

Royce also has experience as a Sexual Assault Team counsellor and as a Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) co-ordinator and group faciliator. In the past, Royce spent 7 years as a psychiatric nurse helping individuals and families cope with acute and long-term mental health issues, and acted as a Clinical Associate at UBC's School of Nursing, Psychiatry department.

Specialized focus on reproductive health counselling:

• Hypnosis for fertility, pregnancy, labour, and childbirth
• Infertility and coping with the stress of trying to conceive
• Perinatal and postpartum depression and anxiety
• Pregnancy and parenting support
• Pregnancy decision-making
• Pregnancy loss (miscarriage, recurrent loss, stillbirth, termination for medical genetics diagnoses, abortion)
• PMS/PMDD and menopause/perimenopase support
• Reproductive mental health (mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and postpartum)

Additional areas of interest:

• Anxiety, panic, excessive worrying, obsessive thoughts
• Couples, marriage, and family counselling
• Depression
• Grief & loss and bereavement support
• Life and career transitions
• Personal growth (self-esteem, assertiveness, boundaries, communication)
• Relationships (couples, family of origin, colleagues)
• Stress management
• Trauma (sexual assault, past trauma and abuse, PTSD, critical incident stress management)
• Women’s issues

Counselling approach:

Royce’s therapeutic approach is eclectic and strongly informed by psychoanalsis and by Gestalt and family systems theories. Royce has a relaxed, open, and easy manner, allowing clients to immediately feel comfortable in her presence.

Royce uses a variety of effective, evidence-based therapies and techniques depending on the client's needs:

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Clinical hypnosis
• Coaching
• Family systems therapy
• Gestalt therapy
• Mind-body techniques (guided visualization, focusing, mindfulness, breath work)

Education:

• Masters Degree in Nursing, McGill University
• Diploma in Family Systems Theory, Pacific Coast Family Therapy Institute

Designations:

• Registered Professional Counsellor (RPC #2526), Canadian Professional Counsellors Association
• Registered Nurse (RN)

Professional associations:

• Canadian Professional Counsellors Association (CPCA)

Contact Royce Dueck:

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