Sally-Anne Haug is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Certified EMDR Therapist who brings over thirty years of experience in the public mental health field to her private practice, Mental Blocks EMDR Therapy & EMDR Consultation. She holds the designation of EMDRIA Approved Consultant and provides EMDR consultation to therapists who have completed basic training and are seeking to advance their practice, pursue certification, or strengthen their use of the EMDR model. Separately, as an RCC Clinical Supervisor, Haug provides clinical supervision that supports the broader development of counsellors, including clinical skills, ethics, professional practice, case management, and reflective practice. Her career has included work with the Vancouver Island Health Authority, where she delivered services as a Mental Health & Substance Use Consultant, Single Session Therapist, and Access & Crisis Response Clinician. Her therapeutic approach is trauma-informed and integrative, incorporating EMDR alongside cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and narrative therapy. She specializes in working with high-functioning adults navigating the effects of trauma, PTSD, complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, and attachment wounds. Haug offers EMDR therapy in Vancouver, British Columbia, and secure online sessions available throughout Canada.
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Sally-Anne Haug, MA, RCC, is an EMDR therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant practicing in Vancouver, BC, whose path into this work is inseparable from what she has carried herself. When she was diagnosed with epilepsy as a teenager, her life shifted in ways that were at once neurological and deeply relational — her confidence fractured, her sense of self became entangled with performance and achievement, and she found herself navigating an invisible weight that the people around her lacked the language to name. Years of treatment followed, and while those experiences offered understanding, she found herself returning to the same quiet frustration: insight without integration. It was EMDR that finally named what she had long intuited — that unresolved experience is not stored only as thought or narrative, but in the nervous system itself, in beliefs and automatic reactions and the body's learned responses to the world.
That personal reckoning shapes everything about how Sally-Anne sits with clients now. She has described what EMDR offered her not as erasure but as a kind of metabolizing — it changed her relationship to her history rather than dissolving it, allowing the past to become genuinely past in the nervous system, not merely in the story. Because she has been on the other side of that gap herself, she brings something that credentials alone cannot confer. She does not see people as diagnoses or problems to be corrected; she sees people whose coping strategies made perfect sense in context, whose nervous systems learned exactly what they needed to learn. What she offers, quietly and with real precision, is this: you do not have to convince me that you are struggling. For people who have spent years minimizing their own pain, that is not a small thing.
Haug works especially well with high-functioning adults — people who appear, from the outside, to be managing extraordinarily well, and who often are, at considerable personal cost. Many arrive having already read widely, attended therapy before, and developed genuine insight into their patterns; what remains unresolved is the emotional and nervous system imprint that understanding alone has not touched. She works with trauma, PTSD, complex PTSD, anxiety, depression, and attachment wounds, and also provides clinical supervision and EMDR consultation to therapists deepening their own practice. In the early sessions, clients can expect to be met without judgment and without the need to justify why they are there. The question Sally-Anne returns to is not what is wrong with them, but what happened, and what the nervous system learned in response — and from that ground, what it might yet learn instead.