“It is my goal to create a strong therapeutic relationship where an individual feels seen, heard, and understood, and inspired to live the life they deserve.”
WORK
- Clear Counselling
- Burnaby Family Life, Women Against Violence
Former Therapist - BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Former Therapist
EDUCATION
- Registered Clinical Counsellor #13192
- MA in Clinical Counselling from City University
- Post Graduate Diploma in Creative & Expressive Arts Therapy
- EMDR
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed Parts Work
- Polyvagal-Informed Nervous System Regulation
- Somatic / Self-Regulation Therapy (SRT)
AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Anxiety & Panic
- Attachment Wounds
- Childhood Trauma
- Disconnection
- Embodied Healing
- EMDR
- Emotional Reactivity
- Feeling Stuck
- Felt Sense Reconnection
- Flashbacks
- Hypervigilance
- Infidelity
- Inner Critic
- Inner Strength
- Integrating New Beliefs
- Intimacy Concerns
- Intrusive Memories
- Intrusive Thoughts
- Life Transitions
- Loss
- Nervous System Dysregulation
- Nervous System Regulation
- Numbness
- Overwhelm
- People Pleasing
- Perfectionism
- Personal Growth
- Physical Symptoms of Stress
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Protective Strategies
- Reactivity or Shutdown
- Rebuilding after Loss
- Relationship Concerns
- Repeated Patterns
- Self Blame
- Self Limiting Beliefs
- Self Understanding
- Self Worth & Identity
- Sexual Abuse Recovery
- Shutdown
- Social Anxiety
- Somatic Work
- Startle Response
- Trauma
- Trauma Loops
- Trauma Reprocessing
APPROACHED USED
- Art Therapy
- IFS Informed Parts Work
- Polyvagal Informed Work
- Relational, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Somatic / Self Regulation Therapy (SRT)
Renée Bartkiewicz provides individual counselling to men and women and non-binary individuals.
She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Clear Counselling in Downtown Vancouver, offering over 20 years of experience supporting clients through trauma, emotional overwhelm, and long standing relational patterns.
Her work centres on three core areas:
1) Trauma & Nervous System Regulation
(sexual abuse recovery, PTSD, chronic dysregulation, emotional overwhelm)
2) Parts Work & Internal Relational Patterns
(IFS informed work, attachment wounds, protective strategies, inner critic)
3) EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Distressing Experiences
(bilateral stimulation, trauma reprocessing, nervous system integration)
Renée supports clients who are navigating experiences that felt “too much, too fast, or too alone” to process at the time. She works with individuals who feel disconnected from themselves, overwhelmed by emotion, or caught in patterns that no longer serve them.
It is her foundational belief that “it is never too late to heal the parts of you that had to survive.” This philosophy guides her work as she helps clients reconnect with their bodies, their emotions, and their inner strengths.
Her approach is grounded, relational, and deeply human, offering a space where clients feel safe to be seen, understood, and supported.
Specialized Topics of Concern for Clients Include
Trauma & Nervous System Regulation
- Anxiety
- Numbness
- Trauma Loops
- Intrusive Thoughts
- Childhood Trauma
- Chronic Dysregulation
- Sexual Abuse Recovery
- PTSD & Complex Trauma
- Disconnection from Self
- Somatic Symptoms of Stress
- Emotional Overwhelm or Shutdown
- “Too Much, Too Fast, Too Alone” Experiences
- Trauma Stored in the Body / Somatic Memory
- Shame, Self-Blame, and Survival-Based Beliefs
- Hypervigilance, Startle Response, Chronic Tension
This specialization also includes support for:
- Feeling Stuck
- Navigating Identity Shifts Following Traumatic Events
- Rebuilding After Loss, Infidelity, or Relationship Rupture
Parts Work & Internal Relational Patterns
(IFS informed therapy)
Renée supports clients exploring:
- Fawning
- Inner Critic
- Self-Blame
- Perfectionism
- People Pleasing
- Identity Confusion
- Self Limiting Beliefs
- Loss of Sense of Self
- Attachment Wounds
- Early Relational Injuries
- Harsh Internal Dialogue
- Repeating Relational Patterns
- Difficulty Trusting Self or Others
- Emotional Reactivity or Shutdown
- Disconnection from Self or Others
- Internal Conflict Between Parts of Self
- Rebuilding Self-Worth and Personal Growth
- Protective Strategies That Once Helped You Survive
- Over Functioning, Caretaking, or Emotional Labour
- Navigating Change and Deepening Self-Understanding
This specialization also supports clients through:
- Relationship Issues
- Boundary Challenges
- Interpersonal Disconnection
- Longstanding Patterns of Overwhelm or Emotional Chaos
3) EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Distressing Experiences
(bilateral stimulation, trauma reprocessing, nervous system integration)
Renée uses EMDR to support clients experiencing:
- Triggers
- Fear, Panic
- Flashbacks
- Feeling Stuck
- Trauma Loops
- Hypervigilance
- Chronic Anxiety
- PTSD Symptoms
- Shame, Self-Blame
- Negative Core Beliefs
- Relationship Wounds
- Emotional Overwhelm
- Attachment Difficulties
- Physical Body Activation
- Identity Confusion After Trauma
- Distressing or Intrusive Memories
- Somatic Activation During Trauma Recall
- Residual Emotional Charge from Childhood Experiences
- Reprocessing Events That Felt “Too Much, Too Fast, Too Alone”
- Body Based Trauma Responses (Freeze, Collapse, Shutdown)
- Integrating New Internal Narratives Rooted in Safety and Self Worth
How She Works
Renée helps clients move at a pace that feels safe, guiding them toward internal regulation, emotional clarity, and deeper self-understanding. Renée integrates:
- Relational, Attachment-Based Therapy to Create Corrective Emotional Experiences
- Somatic / Self Regulation Therapy (SRT) to Stabilize the Nervous System
- IFS Informed Parts Work to Explore Wounded and Protective Parts
- Polyvagal Informed Work to Restore Safety and Connection
- Art Therapy to Access Non-Verbal Wisdom
Her approach is steady, compassionate, and precise. She understands that trauma cannot be solved by thinking harder, “true change happens when the nervous system feels safe to come with you.”
Why Clients Choose Her
Renée brings two decades of trauma-focused experience, a warm relational style, and a belief in every person’s capacity for growth, connection, and healing.
Clients often choose Renée for her ability to offer:
- A Safe, Regulated Presence
- Deep Steadiness and Trauma-Informed Expertise
- A Grounded, Compassionate Space to Be Fully Seen
- Support Through Overwhelming or Long-Avoided Emotional Terrain
- A Holistic, Embodied Approach to Healing
- Insightful, Collaborative Exploration Without Pressure
- Respect for Each Client’s Pace, Boundaries, and Inner Wisdom
Book a Session
Renée offers in person counselling in Downtown Vancouver and secure online therapy across British Columbia.
WORK
- Clear Counselling
- Burnaby Family Life, Women Against Violence
Former Therapist - BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse
Former Therapist
EDUCATION
- Registered Clinical Counsellor #13192
- MA in Clinical Counselling from City University
- Post Graduate Diploma in Creative & Expressive Arts Therapy
- EMDR
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) Informed Parts Work
- Polyvagal-Informed Nervous System Regulation
- Somatic / Self-Regulation Therapy (SRT)
AREAS OF PRACTICE
- Anxiety & Panic
- Attachment Wounds
- Childhood Trauma
- Disconnection
- Embodied Healing
- EMDR
- Emotional Reactivity
- Feeling Stuck
- Felt Sense Reconnection
- Flashbacks
- Hypervigilance
- Infidelity
- Inner Critic
- Inner Strength
- Integrating New Beliefs
- Intimacy Concerns
- Intrusive Memories
- Intrusive Thoughts
- Life Transitions
- Loss
- Nervous System Dysregulation
- Nervous System Regulation
- Numbness
- Overwhelm
- People Pleasing
- Perfectionism
- Personal Growth
- Physical Symptoms of Stress
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Protective Strategies
- Reactivity or Shutdown
- Rebuilding after Loss
- Relationship Concerns
- Repeated Patterns
- Self Blame
- Self Limiting Beliefs
- Self Understanding
- Self Worth & Identity
- Sexual Abuse Recovery
- Shutdown
- Social Anxiety
- Somatic Work
- Startle Response
- Trauma
- Trauma Loops
- Trauma Reprocessing
APPROACHED USED
- Art Therapy
- IFS Informed Parts Work
- Polyvagal Informed Work
- Relational, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Somatic / Self Regulation Therapy (SRT)
Renée Bartkiewicz provides individual counselling to men and women and non-binary individuals.
She is a Registered Clinical Counsellor at Clear Counselling in Downtown Vancouver, offering over 20 years of experience supporting clients through trauma, emotional overwhelm, and long standing relational patterns.
Her work centres on three core areas:
1) Trauma & Nervous System Regulation
(sexual abuse recovery, PTSD, chronic dysregulation, emotional overwhelm)
2) Parts Work & Internal Relational Patterns
(IFS informed work, attachment wounds, protective strategies, inner critic)
3) EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Distressing Experiences
(bilateral stimulation, trauma reprocessing, nervous system integration)
Renée supports clients who are navigating experiences that felt “too much, too fast, or too alone” to process at the time. She works with individuals who feel disconnected from themselves, overwhelmed by emotion, or caught in patterns that no longer serve them.
It is her foundational belief that “it is never too late to heal the parts of you that had to survive.” This philosophy guides her work as she helps clients reconnect with their bodies, their emotions, and their inner strengths.
Her approach is grounded, relational, and deeply human, offering a space where clients feel safe to be seen, understood, and supported.
Specialized Topics of Concern for Clients Include
Trauma & Nervous System Regulation
- Anxiety
- Numbness
- Trauma Loops
- Intrusive Thoughts
- Childhood Trauma
- Chronic Dysregulation
- Sexual Abuse Recovery
- PTSD & Complex Trauma
- Disconnection from Self
- Somatic Symptoms of Stress
- Emotional Overwhelm or Shutdown
- “Too Much, Too Fast, Too Alone” Experiences
- Trauma Stored in the Body / Somatic Memory
- Shame, Self-Blame, and Survival-Based Beliefs
- Hypervigilance, Startle Response, Chronic Tension
This specialization also includes support for:
- Feeling Stuck
- Navigating Identity Shifts Following Traumatic Events
- Rebuilding After Loss, Infidelity, or Relationship Rupture
Parts Work & Internal Relational Patterns
(IFS informed therapy)
Renée supports clients exploring:
- Fawning
- Inner Critic
- Self-Blame
- Perfectionism
- People Pleasing
- Identity Confusion
- Self Limiting Beliefs
- Loss of Sense of Self
- Attachment Wounds
- Early Relational Injuries
- Harsh Internal Dialogue
- Repeating Relational Patterns
- Difficulty Trusting Self or Others
- Emotional Reactivity or Shutdown
- Disconnection from Self or Others
- Internal Conflict Between Parts of Self
- Rebuilding Self-Worth and Personal Growth
- Protective Strategies That Once Helped You Survive
- Over Functioning, Caretaking, or Emotional Labour
- Navigating Change and Deepening Self-Understanding
This specialization also supports clients through:
- Relationship Issues
- Boundary Challenges
- Interpersonal Disconnection
- Longstanding Patterns of Overwhelm or Emotional Chaos
3) EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Distressing Experiences
(bilateral stimulation, trauma reprocessing, nervous system integration)
Renée uses EMDR to support clients experiencing:
- Triggers
- Fear, Panic
- Flashbacks
- Feeling Stuck
- Trauma Loops
- Hypervigilance
- Chronic Anxiety
- PTSD Symptoms
- Shame, Self-Blame
- Negative Core Beliefs
- Relationship Wounds
- Emotional Overwhelm
- Attachment Difficulties
- Physical Body Activation
- Identity Confusion After Trauma
- Distressing or Intrusive Memories
- Somatic Activation During Trauma Recall
- Residual Emotional Charge from Childhood Experiences
- Reprocessing Events That Felt “Too Much, Too Fast, Too Alone”
- Body Based Trauma Responses (Freeze, Collapse, Shutdown)
- Integrating New Internal Narratives Rooted in Safety and Self Worth
How She Works
Renée helps clients move at a pace that feels safe, guiding them toward internal regulation, emotional clarity, and deeper self-understanding. Renée integrates:
- Relational, Attachment-Based Therapy to Create Corrective Emotional Experiences
- Somatic / Self Regulation Therapy (SRT) to Stabilize the Nervous System
- IFS Informed Parts Work to Explore Wounded and Protective Parts
- Polyvagal Informed Work to Restore Safety and Connection
- Art Therapy to Access Non-Verbal Wisdom
Her approach is steady, compassionate, and precise. She understands that trauma cannot be solved by thinking harder, “true change happens when the nervous system feels safe to come with you.”
Why Clients Choose Her
Renée brings two decades of trauma-focused experience, a warm relational style, and a belief in every person’s capacity for growth, connection, and healing.
Clients often choose Renée for her ability to offer:
- A Safe, Regulated Presence
- Deep Steadiness and Trauma-Informed Expertise
- A Grounded, Compassionate Space to Be Fully Seen
- Support Through Overwhelming or Long-Avoided Emotional Terrain
- A Holistic, Embodied Approach to Healing
- Insightful, Collaborative Exploration Without Pressure
- Respect for Each Client’s Pace, Boundaries, and Inner Wisdom
Book a Session
Renée offers in person counselling in Downtown Vancouver and secure online therapy across British Columbia.