Jasneet Purewal
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
Most of the people I work with are the ones everyone else leans on. My job is to give them one place where they don’t have to hold it all together.
- Sees
- Adults 18+, individuals and couples
- Sessions
- Online by video or phone, anywhere in BC
- Times
- Weekends and most weekday evenings
- Fees
- Sessions from $145, sliding scale. Full fees
- Languages
- English, ਪੰਜਾਬੀ Punjabi, हिन्दी Hindi
Taking new clients
Next you’ll pick a time in Jane, our secure booking system. It asks for your name, email and phone.
Meet Jasneet
I’m a first-generation South Asian counsellor in Surrey. Most of the people I see are women: daughters, wives, entrepreneurs. They’re the ones everyone else leans on, and they’re quietly exhausted from it. They come to me burnt out, anxious, or trying to work out how to say no to their family without feeling like a bad person.
As a first-generation Indian daughter, I know the pull between your own needs and what family, culture, marriage and career expect of you. I became a counsellor to offer the kind of room I once needed: one place where you don’t have to hold it all together.
You don’t need the right words, or a reason good enough to justify it. Reach out messy. That’s what this is for.
Is Jasneet the right fit?
A good fit if
Children of immigrants. South Asian daughters dealing with in-laws and life before or after marriage (more on family, culture and identity). Some transitions come with a party, which makes them hard to grieve. A year into marriage, living with your in-laws, everyone calls it the happiest time of your life, and you can’t say something was lost. So we name the loss first: your room, your mother’s kitchen, the woman who had opinions at dinner.
In couples counselling, people bring me the surface fight: money, in-laws, whose family gets the holidays. Underneath, the question is who’s allowed to have needs. I slow it down until we can see the loop, then help the unguarded sentence get said while the other person is still in the room.
I also work with survivors of sexual abuse and family trauma. I take a trauma-informed, collaborative approach and move at your pace, drawing on CBT, DBT and somatic techniques to help you process difficult experiences and build a sense of safety. I’ve run a group for survivors before, and I plan to start a new group in January.
Probably not the right fit if
I’m not the right counsellor for addiction, severe depression or anger issues. I’ll tell you honestly and help you find someone who is: on our team, Davis works with addiction.
What Jasneet helps with
Primary
- Family conflict and first-generation life
- Couples, in-laws and life transitions
- Sexual abuse recovery, at your pace
Read more: Couples and infidelity, Anxiety, stress and burnout, Family, culture and identity, Sexual abuse recovery
Also works with
Women entrepreneurs. Children of immigrants. Self-esteem and identity. Workplace stress.
How I work
We start with the body, not the argument. Then we practise the actual sentence out loud, in English, Punjabi or Hindi.
The family conflict I see rarely looks like shouting. It’s the call you rehearse before making. It’s the drive home where you say nothing and then can’t sleep. So we start with the body, not the argument. Often there’s a part of you that learned young that keeping the peace kept everyone safe. We don’t judge that part; we ask what the fear is saying. Then we practise the actual sentence out loud, in English, Punjabi or Hindi, badly at first, until it’s yours.
I don’t believe you need fixing. The ways you cope probably made sense once. Understanding them is the start. Then we work on boundaries, saying what you need, and new ways to respond. I use chair work, somatic and mindfulness practices, CBT and DBT, and family systems thinking. You’ll usually leave with one small thing to try. I call it homework.
Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Somatic and mindfulness-based work
- Chair work and parts work
- Family systems
What a first session is like
I’ll ask what you hope to get from counselling, and who’s in your world: who you live with, who you’d call at 2 a.m., who you’d never tell you’re in therapy. I’ll ask what you hope is different in six months, even if the answer is “I don’t know, I just want to feel less like this.”
If you’ve come about trauma or abuse, you can tell me it exists without telling me what it was. I won’t go looking. And later on, you’re allowed to tell me I got something wrong.
Fees, times and billing
- Fees
- Free 15-minute consultation. Individual sessions $145 (60 min) or $190 (90 min). Couples $185 (60 min) or $220 (90 min).Sliding scale based on your income: just ask. Jasneet doesn’t bill insurers directly; you get a receipt to submit to your plan.
- Times
- Weekends and most weekday evenings. Video or phone.
Counselling isn’t a provincially regulated profession in BC yet. ACCT is a professional association with its own code of ethics and complaints process. Fees and insurance
Next you’ll pick a time in Jane, our secure booking system. It asks for your name, email and phone.
Training and registration
- RTC Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada (ACCT), #3178
- Registration
- ACCT, #3178
- Counselling since
- 2023
Outside the room
Slowly, and on purpose. I walk every day, do yoga, meditate, and keep a morning and evening routine. I don’t rush breakfast or check my phone first thing. Before I was a counsellor, I was a mortgage broker.
Based in Surrey, BC. Sessions are online, so where you live in BC doesn't matter.
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A free first conversation with Jasneet
Next you’ll pick a time in Jane, our secure booking system. It asks for your name, email and phone.