Psychotherapy that honours your story

Collaborative, non-pathologizing therapy, with written session letters to support reflection and continuity between sessions. 

Michael Towers provides psychotherapy services for individuals and couples. His work is grounded in a non‑pathologizing, relational approach that centres your lived experience, values, and preferred ways forward. Instead of reducing difficulties to labels, therapy focuses on meaning, context, relationship patterns, and possibilities for change.

After each appointment, Michael offers a therapeutic letter that reflects key themes, ideas, and next steps from the session. These letters are intended to support your ongoing reflection and engagement, and they also serve as the primary clinical record of your care in this practice.

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About Michael

Michael is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and educator with over 15 years of experience in individual, couple, and family work. His practice is informed by narrative and relational therapies, trauma‑informed practice, and non‑pathologizing approaches to mental health. He also teaches and supervises other clinicians in advanced counselling skills and ethics.

Michael participates in ongoing professional development and aligns his practice with the Ethics and Practice Standards of the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC, including commitments to non‑discrimination, cultural humility, and person‑centred, evidence‑informed care.

Practice stance

This practice is committed to providing psychotherapy that is collaborative, respectful, and non‑pathologizing. Care is offered with attention to your dignity, context, strengths, relationships, culture, and lived experience, rather than reducing you to a diagnosis or deficit‑based description

Non-discriminatory care

All clients will be treated with dignity, fairness, and respect. Services are provided without discrimination on the basis of personal characteristics protected under the BC Human Rights Code. Communication and professional behaviour are intended to be inclusive, culturally humble, and free from intimidation, coercion, or bias. You are invited to share any accessibility needs, cultural or spiritual practices, pronouns, or other preferences that can help make therapy safer and more fitting for you.

Session letters and your clinical record

After each session, Michael will write you a therapeutic letter summarizing and reflecting the work you did together. These letters may include key themes, language that stood out, emerging understandings, and possible next steps you wish to consider. Many people find that having something written helps them hold onto ideas between sessions and return to important conversations over time.

In this practice, these session letters also function as the primary written clinical record of your care, along with consent, contact, scheduling, billing, and any other documentation required for ethical, legal, or professional reasons. Letters can be printed or securely emailed to an address that you provide and control.

Areas of focus

• Trauma and its effects on identity, relationships, and meaning
• Grief and loss, including ambiguous and non‑death losses
• Relationship and family challenges
• Anxiety, mood, and the effects of stress
• Questions of identity, purpose, and values

Therapy is tailored to your context and preferred ways of working, and you are encouraged to ask questions and co‑shape the direction of the work.

Privacy and communication

Privacy and confidentiality are taken seriously. Information is collected, used, stored, and disclosed only as needed to provide services, maintain the clinical record, manage the practice, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. Email and online communication may be used for practical purposes such as booking and sharing session letters. Reasonable steps are taken to protect your privacy, but electronic communication is not completely risk‑free.

"You are never the problem - the problem is the problem"

Michael is a Registered Marriage and Family Therapist (RMFT) as well as a Certified Supervisor (RMFT-S) with The Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy (CACFT). 

Michael is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and an Approved Clinical Supervisor (RCC-ACS) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). 

Michael is a Certified Professional Counsellor (CPC) and a Certified Supervisor (CPCS) with the Professional Association of Christian Counsellors and Psychotherapists (PACCP). 

Michael is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) and a Certified Supervisor (CCC-S) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).

Michael has a Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Counselling from Briercrest Seminary. He has counselled professionally since 2009, served concurrently as an executive for a Regina non-profit, and returned home to the Okanagan in 2019. Michael lives in Kelowna with his wife of thirty years and is in private practice. 

To explore how professional counselling with Michael can help you, contact Michael today. 

Call/text: 250-215-4155

email: [email protected]