Lisa Yeates

Lisa joined SVP as a Partner in 2019 following her parents Jim and Deb Yeates involvement with SVP since the early days of the organization. During her time with SVP she has sat on the Early Years Committee and along with her family have been a champion of supporting early years initiatives to help build equity for kid’s development.

Over Lisa’s 25-year career as a Counsellor she has focused on supporting those coping with impacts of colonization and systemic trauma, childhood abuse, and mental health and substance use challenges. Her focus has been on supporting people of all ages to find their individual, family, cultural and community strengths to build capacity for wellness. She started in nonprofit working with youth and families at BGC of South Coast BC and then Child and Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Services with Vancouver Coastal Health. She has focused the last 7 years of her career in private practice working with adults with a specific focus on PTSD and healing from Trauma, occupational stress, and the impacts of having a family member who has lived with serious mental health or substance use challenge.

She has two teenage sons, a husband and a dog and loves to spend time with friends and family travelling, skiing or just enjoying the beautiful playground of Vancouver.