- Anger
- Anxiety
- Career
- Couple and Marriage
- Depression
- Grief and Loss
- Relationships
- Self-Esteem
- Shame and Guilt
- Trauma
- Stress
- Men’s Issues
Alistair Gordon is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in private practice and an Adjunct Professor of Counselling Psychology at UBC.
Alistair is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Founder and Director of Wellspring Counselling & Psychotherapy Inc, a published author, an Adjunct Professor of Counselling Psychology at UBC, and the developer of AXPT Psychotherapy™: Adaptive Experiential Processing & Transformation.
AXPT™ focuses on implicit memory—the unconscious, automatic emotional and relational patterns that influence your daily experiences. These patterns often result from past events and remain unexamined, yet they play a significant role in current challenges. Through AXPT™, simulated experiences and experiential processes are engaged to activate and transform these implicit memories. By making maladaptive patterns accessible and adaptive, AXPT™ facilitates profound emotional and relational change.
Alistair also has clinical training in EMDR and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals. Alistair’s therapeutic experience and focus is diverse, encompassing psychotherapy for anxiety and stress, anger, trauma, mild to moderate depression, phobias, significant life decisions, and more.
Additionally, Alistair provides counselling and psychotherapy for self-discovery, enhancing self-esteem, fostering effective parenting strategies, and improving communication for healthier relationships. Personal growth and self-development are integral elements of his practice as he sees the process of therapy being one of actualization and thriving (as opposed to solely fixing a problem).
In our digitally connected world, Alistair provides comprehensive online psychotherapy sessions via a secure video counselling platform, ensuring accessibility and privacy for all his clients.
Clients frequently find the following concepts and tools that are worked on in session valuable:
-Understanding the functionality of the brain and mind.
-Effective management of stress and anger.
-Deep self-exploration for enhanced self-awareness.
-Building psychological resilience.
-Identification, understanding, and management of emotions.
-Developing effective thinking and problem-solving skills.
-Techniques to shift core beliefs towards healthier perspectives.
With each client he works with, he aspires to instil a sense of hope, resilience, joy, and personal empowerment on their journey to well-being and personal growth.
In his personal life, Alistair is a devoted father and husband and is passionate about his own self-actualization in life. Alistair’s personal interests outside of his focus on family include: world history, military strategy, philosophy, the science of peace-building at a global level, conflict resolution, the art of constructive debate, and practicing mixed martial arts.
Alistair specializes in AXPT™ , which focuses on implicit memory—the unconscious, automatic emotional and relational patterns that influence your daily experiences. These patterns often result from past events and remain unexamined, yet they play a significant role in current challenges. Through AXPT™, simulated experiences and experiential processes are engaged to activate and transform these implicit memories. By making maladaptive patterns accessible and adaptive, AXPT™ facilitates profound emotional and relational change.
Interested in EMDR Therapy? You may have heard about it in the news when Prince Harry discussed the helpfulness of this approach and engaged in an EMDR session live on-camera (check it out: https://youtu.be/XCImFkFOlSQ). EMDR therapy processes experiences that were imprinted into unconscious body, emotional, and procedural memory – this is called “implicit memory” – as well as conscious, explicit memory.
EMDR therapy involves attending to the emotionally disturbing experience while orienting your attention to what is called “bi-lateral stimulation,” which is eye movements (or tapping, audio sounds, etc.) that stimulate both sides of your body to activate both hemispheres of your brain.
What this does is it helps to access the memories, create new connections between what happened in the past and what the current reality is, and what is more helpful to believe about yourself. Much of this work ultimately culminates in making a profound shift in the underlying beliefs about yourself that are continuing the patterns of your challenge. There are numerous steps and a host of other factors involved, but this is a brief description of it.
Alistair is a professional member of EMDR International Association.
