supporting individuals and families who are seeking steadiness, balance and tools while navigating life transitions, fertility & Pregnancy journeys, postpartum, complex diagnoses, anxiety, overwhelm, chronic illness, pain, medical experiences, parenting Challenges, birth,
grief, loss and Changing Relationships.
Meghan Stewart (she/her/hers)
Registered Clinical Counsellor
Certified BC Teacher
Avid cold plunger, gardener, mama of four, auntie to many and congenital heart warrior.
I am humbled to work in my field
Whether it is a challenging relationship, difficult family story, heartbreak, a traumatic event, a medical experience or painful experience trauma can be held in our minds and bodies.
I am here to hold space for all of you
The messy, unsure, confused parts.
The shut down, disconnected or sad.
Dysregulated, nervous, overdoing....
Areas of Practice
Through my lived experiences and work
with clients and families and children in the school and medical systems, I gravitate towards the following areas in my practice:
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Resilience
Emotional Regulation
Somatic Integration and Processing
Childhood Trauma
Fertility
Identity, Belonging and Meaning
Medical Trauma
Early Childhood Attachment
Birth Stories
Relational attachment
Parenting-Neurodiversity, Gender identity and Navigating School Systems
Heartbreak, Grief and Loss
Anxiety and Depression
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Chronic Illness, Medical Trauma, Diagnosis & Resilience
Living with chronic pain, illness, or medical trauma can shape how we move through the world. The unpredictability of pain often brings a steady undercurrent of uncertainty, fatigue, and overwhelm. I honour how this lived experience affects both mind and body — and how stress can deepen physical limitations and impact daily life. Together, we can gently explore what support looks like from a place of compassion and awareness.
Family and Group Therapy
Family therapy with Meghan Stewart offers a compassionate, grounded space for families to heal together. Drawing from relational and somatic approaches, Meghan supports families navigating grief, addiction, sudden loss, and ruptures in connection. Sessions focus on restoring safety, understanding patterns, and repairing relationships—helping each person feel seen, heard, and supported from the inside out.
Fertility and Birth Stories
If you are navigating fertility challenges, considering pregnancy or have experienced a traumatic birth story or loss, you may be carrying fear, grief, or uncertainty about what comes next. Counselling can be supportive to your own unique journey where there is space for all your feelings and experiences.
These sessions usually includes somatic work as the body holds your birth and fertility stories and also needs to move through and process pieces you might not even be conscious of. Therapy can be deeply supportive because integrating somatic approaches helps individuals process stress, trauma, and bodily signals, fostering a sense of safety, regulation, and connection with their changing or changed bodies during this vulnerable journey.
LGBTQIA+ Relationships and Transitions
At Hands to Heart Therapy, all LGBTQIA+ identities and relationships are welcomed and honoured. I recognize the deep impact of historical and ongoing discrimination, and I hold space for the grief, resilience, and complexity that can come with that. My practice is rooted in creating an affirming and inclusive space — one that values your uniqueness and lived experience.
Parenting, Co-Parenting and Family Systems Work
Family systems therapy begins with the understanding that we are wired for connection. The attachments we form within our families shape how we relate, regulate, and make sense of the world around us. It's natural for tension, disconnection, and miscommunication to arise... these moments can create patterns that ripple through the family system. In this work, we gently explore these patterns, with curiosity and compassion, to support deeper understanding and more intentional connection between all members.
Child and Teen Anxiety, Grief and Trauma
When we support children and teens in meeting big feelings, discomfort, or dysregulation with care, we walk beside them as they grow. In this space, they begin to build inner connection, resilience, and a felt sense of safety — foundations that allow them to show up fully and authentically as themselves.
Rahul Minhas
Counsellor and Author
Meghan's expertise in pediatric medical trauma shows her exceptional dedication to supporting children and families during their most challenging moments. Her compassionate approach and deep knowledge make her a trusted leader in this specialized field.
Nita Augustin (Counsellor)
"Meghan offers something truly special in the world of counselling... Her deeply attuned, gentle presence is paired with both lived and professional experience, especially when it comes to helping folx navigate medical trauma. I so appreciate Meghan brings her heart, groundedness, and a deep respect for the stories clients carry. Her understanding of grief, chronic pain, and early medical experiences isn’t just theoretical, it’s truly personal and embodied, which makes her care feel safe, validating, and real... I highly value Meghan’s work, it’s the kind that makes a difference...."
Amy Thorne-Broderick
Child Counsellor
Meghan is a warm and experienced educator and counsellor. She supports people of all ages, especially with medical trauma and developmental experiences. Her strength based approach helps clients harness their own strength and peace. Meghan is a gem!
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Read my Newest Blog on Grief
"In my own life, loss ebbed and flowed. I carry the grief of losing a sibling, my father, my cousin, grandparents, friends, and people I’ve walked alongside as clients and students. Each of them holding a space in my heart. Each death has been so unique in how I have grieved teaching me how there is no pattern or process that is normal."
Taking the first step...
Reaching out to a therapist can be overwheming and nerve wracking. I understand the uncertainty and vulnerability you may be feeling. Sometimes, the longer it takes to reach out, makes those feelings grow. Writing the email or clicking the link can be the hardest part! I Invite you to book a consultation, click the button below to book on my online system.
![I am endlessly humbled to walk with those who live in bodies that ache, tremble, remember — and still, somehow, carry on.
To live with chronic illness, pain, anxiety, or the quiet ache of body grief is to move through the world with a kind of resilience that often goes unseen. Not the loud kind — but the soft, steady choosing to stay, feel and move. I know this in my own body and have learned from those who work with me in my counselling practice.
In my counselling practice, I honour the wisdom of the body and the beautiful inner strength and resilience that is sometimes hard to find.
This is the heart of embodied healing.
This is the work I’m graced to do.
If this feels like something that would be supportive for you and your lived experience, you are warmly invited to reach out.
https://www.handstoheart.online/
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As a settler, I gratefully and humbly acknowledge that I live and work in North Vancouver, British Columbia on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh)I work to create an authentic, sensitive and healing space attuned to diversity, 2SLGBTQI+ rights and the uniqueness of each child, teen and adult.
