About Trish Walsh
Trish Walsh, BA, MTC, is a Master Therapeutic Counsellor, speaker, trainer, consultant, and educator based in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
For more than twenty years, Trish has worked at the intersection of mental health, trauma recovery, resilience, emotional intelligence, and human development. Her work integrates contemporary psychological research with a deep interest in meaning, connection, and human potential.
Today, Trish provides counselling, professional training, workshops, keynote presentations, and consultation services for individuals, organizations, mental health professionals, educational institutions, and community-based organizations.
Professional Background
Trish began her career as a Co-Active Coach in 2008 after completing her training through the Coaches Training Institute (CTI) in San Francisco, California.
Prior to her work in mental health, Trish worked for five years with InspireHealth (then known as the Centre for Integrated Healing), a pioneering organization dedicated to integrated cancer care. Part of her role included travelling throughout British Columbia, and the Yukon, providing education to physicians, nurses, healthcare professionals, and community audiences on topics related to integrated cancer care, cancer prevention, and health promotion. Working alongside researchers and healthcare practitioners, she developed a strong interest in translating complex information into practical, accessible knowledge—an approach that continues to inform her work today.
From 2008 to 2016, she served as Executive Director of a Canadian foundation focused on mental health and addiction. During this time, she worked closely with physicians, researchers, and advisory committees in Canada and internationally to advance education and awareness in the areas of addiction, concurrent disorders, trauma, and mental health.
This experience provided Trish with a unique opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers and healthcare professionals while gaining a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between emotional well-being, mental health, physical health, and social systems.
In addition to her clinical work, Trish has taught within a three-year professional counselling certification program and has provided trauma-informed education and training to graduate students at Langara College.
Speaking, Training & Education
Since 2017, Trish has provided trauma-informed and resiliency-informed training, workshops, and presentations to thousands of professionals, educators, leaders, and community members across Canada.
Trish has a particular interest in identifying important developments and emerging reseach in the fields of trauma healing, attachment, resilience, interpersonal neurobiology, relational intelligence, and human development. She is passionate about translating complex research into practical, accessible tools that support healing, growth, and meaningful change.
In 2017, Trish developed and hosted her first professional training on trauma and physical health at the University of British Columbia. The workshop featured a researcher from Dalhousie University’s Centre for Emotions and Health and explored emerging research on the relationship between unresolved trauma, the nervous system, and somatoform disorders. This training reflected Trish’s ongoing interest in helping practitioners apply emerging research in meaningful and accessible ways. .For additional context on this emerging area of research, see the Globe and Mail article, “Their pain is real — and for patients with mystery illnesses, help is on the way.”
Since that time, Trish has provided public and professional workshops, trainings, and presentations to:
- Mental health professionals
- Counselling students
- Front-line workers
- School counsellors and educators
- Provincial health authorities
- National sport organizations
- Non-profit organizations
- Corporate teams and leaders
- Members of the general public
Her areas of focus include:
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Resiliency-Informed Practice
- Emotional Intelligence
- Relational Intelligence
- Relational Resilience
- Nervous System Regulation
- Attachment and Relationships
- Compassion Fatigue and Burnout Prevention
- Intergenerational and Transgenerational Trauma
- Trauma Recovery and Post-Traumatic Growth
Her goal is to make current research and practical tools accessible, engaging, and immediately applicable for both professionals and the communities they serve.
Therapeutic Approach
Trish works from a trauma-informed, strengths-based, and relational approach that is tailored to the unique needs, goals, and circumstances of each client.
Her work integrates a range of evidence-informed therapeutic approaches, including:
- Transpersonal Psychology
- Bowen Family Systems Theory
- Developmental Attachment Theory
- Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Gestalt Therapy
- Somatic Psychology
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Person-Centered (Rogerian) Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- HeartMath® Tools
- Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) (Neff/Germer)
- Energy Psychology
Drawing from these approaches, Trish helps clients increase self-awareness, strengthen emotional regulation, better understand relationship patterns, process difficult life experiences, and develop greater resilience and capacity for meaningful change.
Her work frequently explores the impact of family systems, attachment experiences, inherited patterns, nervous system responses, and the ways in which past experiences continue to shape present-day thoughts, emotions, and behaviours.
While therapeutic work often focuses on healing what has been wounded, it also involves identifying strengths, building new capacities, and creating opportunities for growth and transformation.
Transpersonal Psychology
A central influence in Trish’s work is Transpersonal Psychology, an approach that integrates modern psychology with the study of consciousness, meaning, spirituality, and human potential.
Emerging from the work of pioneers such as Carl Jung, William James, and Abraham Maslow, Transpersonal Psychology recognizes that human growth extends beyond symptom reduction and problem-solving. It explores questions of purpose, connection, identity, creativity, wisdom, and personal transformation.
The term transpersonal literally means “beyond the personal.” It refers to experiences and perspectives that move beyond a limited sense of self and foster a deeper connection to ourselves, others, nature, community, and the larger world.
Within this framework, healing is understood not only as the reduction of suffering, but also as the cultivation of greater meaning, compassion, authenticity, and wholeness.
Depending on a client’s interests and goals, this work may incorporate practices such as mindfulness, journaling, visualization, breathwork, dream exploration, psychodrama, self-reflection, and other approaches that support personal growth and self-discovery.
A Foundation for Growth
At the foundation of all of Trish’s work is the belief that deeper understanding creates the possibility for meaningful change.
While life inevitably brings challenges, uncertainty, and suffering, these experiences can also become opportunities for increased awareness, healing, resilience, and growth.
Through curiosity, compassion, and connection, individuals can develop greater capacity to navigate life’s complexities while moving toward a more meaningful and fulfilling way of being.