Addictions and Recovery Consulting
Trevor offers specialized support for addiction recovery, grounded in psychology and physical fitness. His consulting covers intervention and rehabilitation strategies — not as a licensed addictions counselor, but as someone who understands the terrain from the inside.
Two things come before any of this. First, a qualified addictions counsellor. Second, a 12-step program. Trevor’s consulting works in conjunction with Resilience Therapy and alongside a counsellor and a program, never instead of them. Training, nutrition, and nature-based interventions can carry someone a long way in recovery, and the research below says so, but the counsellor holds the clinical side and the program holds the daily one. If you have neither yet, the links at the bottom of this page are where to start.
That understanding comes from his own family. His wife was diagnosed with a mental health disease and suffered from addiction. He and his daughter — five years old at the time, now eleven — had to make the choice to leave her after helping her through over ten rehabilitation attempts, numerous detoxes and hospitalizations. She passed away from her mental illness and addictions on December twelfth, twenty twenty-five.
The research supports treating the body alongside the mind. A 2024 network meta-analysis in The BMJ — two hundred eighteen trials, over fourteen thousand people — found strength training, walking or jogging, and yoga reduced depression symptoms as effectively as cognitive behavioral therapy, with strength training ranking among the most acceptable modalities (Noetel et al., 2024). A 2026 umbrella review in the British Journal of Sports Medicine went further: all forms of exercise matched or exceeded traditional pharmacological and psychological interventions for both depression and anxiety, across every age group (Dimmock et al., 2026). For addiction specifically, a 2025 network meta-analysis in Frontiers in Psychiatry — fifty-seven trials, nearly three thousand patients — showed aerobic and mind-body exercise improved substance-use outcomes, craving, sleep, and mental health, while a 2014 meta-analysis found exercise raised abstinence rates and eased withdrawal symptoms (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2025; Wang et al., 2014). A 2026 UCLA trial even showed eight weeks of walking, jogging, and resistance training restored dopamine receptors in methamphetamine users — the brain damage of addiction, reversed by training.
He watched it work firsthand. While she battled addiction, endurance training, strength training, and yoga gave her something no counselor ever could — a body that felt strong, a mind that could breathe, and a reason to keep showing up. He saw the difference in her eyes on the days she trained, and he wants to share that with anyone fighting the same fight.
Moving forward with his life, Trevor is lessening the side of her death by creating something positive for people dealing with mental health and addiction — carrying his wife with him into every session, every program, every person he helps.
Getting help in Southern BC
If you need help now. Call or text 9-8-8 for the Suicide Crisis Helpline. Call 310-6789 (no area code) for the BC Mental Health Support Line, 24 hours. Call 1-800-663-1441 for BC’s Alcohol and Drug Information and Referral Service, 24 hours, for treatment options anywhere in the province. Call 811 for HealthLink BC.
Find a counsellor. The Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation certifies addictions counsellors and lists them. The BC Association of Clinical Counsellors lists registered clinical counsellors by region.
Find a 12-step meeting. Alcoholics Anonymous, BC/Yukon and Narcotics Anonymous, BC Region both list meetings by town, in person and online. For families and partners, Al-Anon.
Children, youth, and families. BC Children’s Hospital runs two province-wide services. The Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre is free to any family in BC — call 1-800-665-1822 or email keltycentre@cw.bc.ca. Much of the peer support comes from parents who have been through it themselves, and they will help you work out what services exist and how to reach them, which is the part most people get stuck on. Kelty also helps people of any age with eating disorders. Compass covers children and youth up to twenty-five at 1-855-702-7272, but read this before you call: it is a line for the doctors, counsellors, and care providers working with a young person, not for families directly. Ask yours to call it. BC Children’s own mental health and substance use clinics work by referral.
Provincial directories. HelpStartsHere.gov.bc.ca is the BC government’s directory of mental-health and substance-use services, including treatment beds. HealthLink BC explains the options. The health authorities each run their own services: Interior Health for the Okanagan, Shuswap, Kamloops, and Kootenays; Fraser Health; Vancouver Coastal Health; Island Health. The Canadian Mental Health Association, BC is a good first call for anything that is not an emergency.
Treatment and recovery centres, including detox, are listed in the column beside this page, or below it on a phone.