Addictions and Recovery Consulting

Yak Peak, September 2025

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 has seen it up close.

This work is personal. For years Trevor supported his wife through her addiction, and saw first-hand what training the body could do for the mind. After helping her through multiple rehabs, detoxes and hospitalizations, they separated. She died in late 2025. He has taken that loss, and what he learned studying psychology, and turned it toward helping other people through their hardest days.

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.

The research supports treating the body alongside the mind. Large reviews find strength training, walking, jogging and yoga ease depression and anxiety as well as therapy or medication, and in addiction, exercise improves craving, withdrawal and staying sober. One 2026 trial even saw eight weeks of training restore dopamine receptors damaged by methamphetamine.

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.

What it looks like in the numbers

Recovery is not measured in willpower, and it is very hard to see from the inside. One of the few honest ways to watch it is heart-rate variability, because the nervous system answers before anybody’s judgement does.

A hypothetical year: the same training, with fifty drinking occasions in it. Every number is invented and nobody’s real data is shown anywhere on this site. The size of one night is taken from published research.

No single one of those nights is a health event. About fourteen milliseconds of HRV, most of it back inside four days. That is the honest size of it and it is why nobody notices.

They arrive every seventh day, and recovery takes four. So the body is never given a clean run at the thing it is being asked to do. Across the year the line sits below where the same training alone would have put it on three hundred nights out of three hundred and sixty-four.

That is the argument for measuring rather than asking. A person can tell you honestly that they feel fine on the Wednesday, and be right, while the record shows a year that never got off the floor. The full account, with the studies and what they do and do not establish, is in what weekly drinking does to a year of training.

None of this is a diagnosis and none of it is treatment. Trevor is a trainer, not a counsellor and not a physician. It is a way of seeing what is happening, handed to you and to the people who are qualified to act on it.

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.