Stone Reef Psychotherapy
Nanaimo • Online Counselling
Individual & Couples Counselling | Workshops & Intensives
Specialized Therapy for Trauma, Addiction, Enmeshment & Relationships
Reaching out for support is often the most difficult part of the journey. At Stone Reef Psychotherapy, we move beyond surface level therapy. Led by Ryan Slobodian (MC, RCC, CSAT-S), our clinic provides a specialized, evidence-based path toward healing from trauma, addiction, enmeshment, and relational patterns that may feel impossible to break. Whether you are visiting our Wentworth Street office in Nanaimo or connecting with us online, our goal is to empower you with clinical expertise and practical mentorship.
The Stone Reef Approach: Clinical Expertise Meets Practical Mentorship
We believe that therapy should be more than a weekly venting session. Our philosophy is rooted in the idea that insight without action is incomplete. We combine high-level clinical modalities with a mentorship model that helps you bridge the gap between understanding your past and changing your future.
At Stone Reef, we don’t just help you manage symptoms, we help you become steady in the face of life’s currents. Like a reef that holds firm through shifting tides and stormy waters, our work is about building a foundation of strength beneath the surface. By addressing the deeper patterns rooted in trauma, betrayal, or attachment, we help you develop lasting resilience, not just symptom relief.
Areas of Specialized Clinical Focus
Trauma can leave your mind and body stuck on high alert long after the danger has passed. Using proven therapies like EMDR, ART, and IFS we help you work through painful memories, including PTSD, without having to relive them over and over.
Discovering a partner’s sexual betrayal can shatter your sense of safety and reality. Whether or not your partner is in therapy, we help betrayed partners find stability, set boundaries, and foster empowerment. We also facilitate therapist-guided therapeutic disclosures.
Stone Reef is at the forefront of specialized psychotherapy for sex addiction recovery in Nanaimo, BC, and across Canada. Our team of Certified Sex Addiction Therapists (CSATs) provide a trauma-informed, task-oriented roadmap to help you break the cycle of compulsive sexual behaviour.
Our team addresses the intersection of trauma and addiction, including alcohol, drugs, and process addictions. We provide comprehensive support for those seeking sobriety and emotional regulation.
Stone Reef is Canada’s home for specialized enmeshment therapy and coaching. We help clients identify dysfunctional loyalties and family-of-origin patterns that prevent them from living a passionate and autonomous adult life.
Feeling like you’re competing with your partner’s family for your own relationship? We help partners of enmeshed individuals understand the disloyalty bind, step out of recurring conflicts, and build a partnership with its own boundaries and privacy.
Depression can look like endurance: functioning on the outside while running on empty inside. Using CBT, DBT, and psychodynamic therapy, we address both the thought patterns and the nervous-system shutdown that keep you stuck.
When your mind won’t stop scanning for what could go wrong, willpower isn’t the answer. We combine CBT and DBT to calm anxious thought patterns and regulate the nervous system. We help you turn anxiety into a signal you can respond to rather than a state you’re trapped inside.
Our Therapy Services
We provide a confidential, one-on-one space to work through anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, or enmeshment at your own pace. We use evidence-based tools like CBT, DBT, and EMDR, tailored to your goals. In Nanaimo or online.
Using the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Relational Life Therapy (RLT), we help couples move from high-conflict cycles to deeper emotional intimacy and secure attachment.
Secure, encrypted video and telephone sessions bring the full Stone Reef team to you across BC and Canada. We offer the same evidence-based work as in person, without the commute. Delivered via Zoom or the Jane app.
Full-day or multi-day individualized intensives can be a time-efficient, more affordable alternative to inpatient treatment for those ready to commit to deep recovery work. In Nanaimo or online.
Ryan offers intensive workshops delivered through Dr. Kenneth Adams’ Overcoming Enmeshment. We help men break free of guilt, dysfunctional loyalty binds, and enmeshment roles that block healthy adult relationships. Online across Canada and internationally.
Our concentrated multi-day sessions complement our weekly couples therapy, creating the space to help you identify entrenched patterns, stabilize after trust ruptures, and chart a path forward. In Nanaimo or online.
Meet the Stone Reef Clinical Team
FOUNDER / THERAPIST
- Locations: Nanaimo, Online
- Specialties: Enmeshment Recovery, Sex/Porn Addiction, Process Addictions, PTSD, Complex PTSD, Mood Disorders
INDIVIDUAL & COUPLES THERAPIST
- Locations: Online
- Specialties: Couples Counselling, Sex/Porn Addiction, Betrayal Trauma, Complex PTSD, PTSD, Mood Disorders, Enmeshment Recovery
ADDICTION & TRAUMA THERAPIST
- Locations: Nanaimo, Online
- Specialties: Substance Addiction, Sex/Porn Addiction, PTSD, Enmeshment Recovery
INDIVIDUAL THERAPIST
- Locations: Online
- Specialties: Trauma Counselling, Couples Counselling, Sex Addiction Therapy, Substance Abuse Counselling, Depression Therapy, Anxiety Therapy, Enmeshment Recovery
Evidence-Based Modalities for Lasting Results
We don’t use a one size fits all approach. Your treatment plan is individualized and curated using the most effective tools in modern psychotherapy, including:
CBT & DBT:
For cognitive restructuring and emotional regulation.
EMDR & ART:
Specialized eye movement therapies designed to desensitize traumatic triggers quickly.
Internal Family Systems (IFS):
To understand the different parts of your personality and heal inner conflict.
Compassionate Inquiry:
A psychodynamic approach to uncovering the root causes of addiction and pain.
Frequently Asked Questions about Therapy at Stone Reef
In BC, both professionals practice therapy, but psychologists are able to perform psychological assessments and diagnose mental health conditions. While we do not provide formal psychological diagnoses or assessments, our clinicians are highly specialized in psychotherapy treatment and recovery.
Yes. While our physical offices are in Nanaimo and Squamish BC, we offer secure Zoom or Jane App sessions for clients across Canada and specialized enmeshment coaching for clients internationally.
Every journey is unique. Some clients find relief in 8–12 sessions using ART, CBT, or EMDR, while others engage in long-term work for complex trauma or relational growth.
Absolutely. As members of the BCACC, we adhere to the highest ethical standards of privacy and confidentiality.
Stone Reef: Now Accepting New Clients
You do not have to walk this path alone. Take the first step today.