Bridgid McGowan, MAPPC, RCC

Bridgid McGowan, MA, R.C.C., is a cisgender Queer white settler from Irish and Scottish working-class roots. She has a Master of Arts in Pastoral Psychology and Counselling and is a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, a Registered Clinical Counsellor, and an approved Sensorimotor Consultant. She lives and works on the unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish Nations in colonially called Vancouver, BC.

Bridgid has worked as a counsellor and psychotherapist for over 30 years, and as a consultant and clinical supervisor for the past 15 years. She worked extensively in the anti-violence sector with survivors of sexualized and intimate partner violence and in independent practice. As a therapist, Bridgid works primarily online with adults who are struggling with complex trauma, attachment wounding, grief & loss, death and dying, chronic illness & disability, and spirituality. She has long term experience working with clients who have been marginalized, including those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, Queer, Trans, disabled, and those living with chronic illness as well as social/political activists. Her work is rooted in anti-oppression, intersectionality (a term coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw), feminism, and justice doing. Bridgid provides individual psychotherapy, as well as individual and group SP consultation, and offers a sliding scale for Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, and disabled folks who have financial barriers.