About Roger Wells

Contact Roger Wells: 250-896-9177



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Credentials:
  • Registered Psychologist: College of Psychologists of British Columbia.  (No. 1460)
  • Clinical Fellow, British Columbia Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.  (No. 19376)
  • PhD in Psychology: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Areas of Work:​
Couple Issues
  • Conflict
  • Communication
  • Connection
  • Infidelity
Individual issues
  • Life transitions
  • Self-esteem
  • Escaping victimhood
  • Loss
Family issues
  • Blended families
  • Aging parents

Philosophy
The lives we lead are informed by the cultural, societal, family and personal stories within which we have important roles.  Other, we are simultaneously pulled and pushed in different directions by the many contexts which give meaning to our lives.  We may be faced with seemingly incompatible demands or injunctions which we struggle to meet or to follow: 
  • Work hard
  • Be beautiful
  • Never let your guard down
  • Love conquers all
  • Emotions are a waste of time & energy

​The Present



The Future
Perhaps you are “stuck” in a repeating pattern of conflict and disagreement with your partner – you can predict the steps of this “dance” with perfect accuracy.  Perhaps you are under the powerful influence of some kind of diagnosis – feeling sentenced for life (it seems) to a condition for which medication seems to be the only treatment medicine can provide.  Maybe you are beginning to wonder whether you took a wrong turn somewhere along the road of life.  Creating a fulfilling and satisfying life may seem to be an impossible dream.  When you “look around” to see how you got to this place in your life, the many influences which have shaped you are likely to have faded out and you can’t quite grasp how to get your life back on track

​​​What needs to happen is a re-discovering of the important themes in your life, the values that shape the details of your actions, thoughts and feelings.  Once have a clearer grasp of what is profoundly meaningful to you, the opportunity comes to write a new story to describe your life in the future in terms that are more respectful and nourishing of yourself and of others.

That’s what I try to help you do.
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