Maryanne Wong (they/she) - Registered Social Worker (RSW)
Languages: English

If you would like to connect with Maryanne, please email [email protected]
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Availability**
Tuesdays 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm (Walk & talk [West End only], video, telephone)
Wednesdays 2:30pm - 8:00 pm (Walk & talk, video, telephone)**
Saturdays 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm (In-person and Virtual)**

Walk and Talk locations in Vancouver: near Main and Broadway, West End, Trout Lake, Kitsilano.
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**As a COVID-cautious clinician, Maryanne stays up to date on boosters, masking, and uses an air cleaner during sessions. To protect immunocompromised clients, face-to-face clients are asked to be up to date on COVID boosters and bring a mask to appointments.

​About
Sometimes we all need a place where we can kick off our shoes, speak our minds plainly, and work through whatever life has placed in front of us. Maryanne offers a space grounded in respect, empathy, and curiosity. Together, you'll find the rhythm and pace that feels right, creating a place where you can exhale, unpack, explore, grow, and move forward.         

Maryanne believes that who we are influences how we experience the world—and that therapy isn't value-neutral. They are a queer, gender-fluid, second-generation Chinese Canadian social worker and counsellor. Their lived experience includes navigating disability, neurodivergence, fat identity, and the complexities of moving across different class contexts—from working-class survival to middle-class adulthood.

Who Maryanne works with
Maryanne enjoys working with people whose lives don’t fit neatly into conventional boxes—whether because of identity, relationships, disability, chronic illness, caregiving, or the systems they’ve had to navigate. A registered social worker since 2012, Maryanne’s work is informed by longstanding familiarity with queer, kink/leather, polyamorous, and other community-based spaces, alongside over a decade of clinical experience supporting caregivers and people navigating chronic illness and disability.

Their practice is especially welcoming to:
  • 2SLGBTQIA+ folks
  • Queer and trans people of colour (QTBIPoC)
  • Second-generation diaspora and people navigating cultural complexity
  • Disabled and/or neurodivergent folks
  • People living with chronic illness or complex health conditions
  • people navigating complex trauma, identity exploration, chronic stress, burnout, grief, relationship challenges, or major life transitions
  • Partners, family members, and caregivers supporting vulnerable loved ones
  • BDSM, kink, and leather communities
  • Polyamorous and ethically non-monogamous folks

What to expect
Maryanne understands that our lives are shaped by both our relationships and the broader systems we live within. They bring an intersectional feminist and social justice lens to therapy, recognizing the ways identity, culture, disability, relationships, and systems of power shape our experiences. Their style is collaborative, curious, trauma-informed, harm-reduction-oriented, and grounded in relational accountability.

Sessions often feel like a friendly conversation that connects the dots across different parts of your life, with room for laughter and the occasional inconvenient truth. Expect space to explore your inner world while also examining the larger contexts that shape how you think, feel, relate, and move through life.

Outside of work, Maryanne can usually be found snuggling with their (very opinionated) small fluffy dog, choreographing dances, tending an urban food forest, introducing friends to dim sum, or toodling along the seawall with their spouse.
Maryanne is fully vaccinated, boosted, and continues to practice COVID safer precautions.

Licenses and Degrees
  • Registered Social Worker (RSW), BC College of Social Workers
  • Master of Social Work (2022, UVIC, Dean's List)
  • Bachelor of Social Work (2012, UVIC, Dean's List)
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts—Dance (2008, SFU)
  • Bachelor of Arts Psychology/Behavioural Neuroscience & Social Studies of Medicine (2002, McGill)

Selected Professional Training
  • EMDR for Complex Trauma: Targeted Interventions for Healing Relational and Interpersonal Wounds (2026)
  • Complex Trauma Certification Training: Interventions from EMDR, Parts Work, CPT, and Polyvagal Theory (2024)
  • Internal Family Systems Online Circle (2023)
  • Living with the Legacy of Loss: Somatic Tools for Working with Grief (2023)
  • EMDR 5-Day Training (2022)
  • Dialectical Behavioural Therapy Training (2022)
  • Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain and Syndromes (2022)
  • Dulwich Centre Narrative Therapy Basics (2021)
  • Motivational Interviewing—Vancouver Coastal Health (2015)
  • Brief Intervention and Assessment—Vancouver Coastal Health (2014)
  • Working with Trauma—University of Victoria (2012)
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Maryanne’s Rates 
15 min Phone Consultation: No Cost

Individual Counselling
50 min
Standard $160
Generous: $165+
Sliding scale: Please inquire
75 min
Standard $235
Generous: $240+
Sliding scale: Please inquire

Hormone Readiness Assessment
Two 40-minute sessions: $300 per assessment

Maryanne is registered with First Nations Health Authority and folks accessing Autism Funding Unit.

If you'd like to connect with Maryanne email [email protected]