Victims of Crime / CVAP Counselling

Support, healing, and a way forward.

Experiencing a crime can affect your emotional well being, sense of safety, relationships, and everyday life. Even when the immediate danger has passed, your mind and body may continue reacting to what happened.

Counselling can provide a safe and supportive space to process the experience, reduce distressing symptoms, rebuild a sense of control, and move forward at your own pace.

It Is Normal to Have a Strong Response

After a frightening, violent, or distressing experience, you may notice:

Anxiety, fear, or feeling constantly alert
Flashbacks or intrusive memories
Sleep difficulties or nightmares
Feeling sad, angry, numb, guilty, or overwhelmed
Difficulty concentrating or managing everyday responsibilities
Avoiding people, places, or situations that remind you of what happened
Changes in relationships or difficulty trusting others
Feeling less safe in situations that once felt normal
Strong physical reactions when reminded of the experience

Counselling Through the Crime Victim Assistance Program

The Crime Victim Assistance Program in British Columbia may provide financial support for counselling to eligible victims of crime, certain immediate family members, and some witnesses. Eligibility and available benefits are determined by the program.

I provide counselling for clients accessing support through the Crime Victim Assistance Program. If you already have approval, we can discuss the next steps. If you are unsure about your eligibility or coverage, you can contact the program directly and we can also discuss the counselling process during your consultation.

How Counselling Can Help

Process the Experience

Explore what happened in a safe, supportive, and confidential space without pressure to move faster than you are ready for.

Manage Distressing Symptoms

Develop strategies for anxiety, flashbacks, sleep difficulties, emotional overwhelm, and trauma responses.

Feel Safer and More Grounded

Build practical tools that help your nervous system settle and increase your sense of stability in everyday life.

Strengthen Relationships

Explore changes in trust, closeness, communication, and the way you relate to others after the experience.

Build Resilience

Develop practical strategies for coping with challenges and reconnecting with your strengths.

Focus on Your Goals

Work toward the life you want while acknowledging what you have been through.

A Safe, Respectful, and Trauma Informed Space

My approach is collaborative, respectful, and trauma informed. I use evidence informed therapeutic approaches that may include EMDR, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, mindfulness based strategies, emotional regulation skills, and other trauma focused methods.

The work is guided by your needs and goals. We focus on helping you feel safer, reduce the impact of trauma, strengthen coping, and move toward the parts of life that matter to you.

Flexible Ways to Attend

In person counselling is available at my downtown Vancouver office. Secure virtual counselling is available throughout British Columbia for clients who prefer to attend from home or another private space.

CVAP Billing

For eligible clients with approved Crime Victim Assistance Program benefits, counselling services may be billed through the program according to its authorization and coverage rules.

If you have questions about starting counselling, we can discuss them during your free 20 minute consultation, or you can contact me before booking.

Support Is Available. Healing Is Possible.

You do not have to go through this alone. Counselling can help you process what happened, reduce the impact on your life, and move forward with greater strength and confidence.

Dr Karanvir Singh