Dr. Michael “Mike” Dadson
PhD, RCC, CCC · Clinical Director, Gentle Currents Therapy
Looking for counselling in Langley? Our team at Gentle Currents Therapy can help you explore your options and find a counsellor who feels like a good fit.
I developed the Sequential Trauma Narrative to help people make sense of how trauma can affect their bodies, relationships, and sense of who they are. Read the STN Recovery Blueprint.
Meet the Gentle Currents Team
I’m proud to recommend the people I work alongside at Gentle Currents Therapy. When I help someone find a counsellor, I think about what they’re facing, who has experience with those concerns, and who they might feel comfortable talking with. Our counsellors bring different strengths, from working with couples and families to supporting people through grief, trauma, and life transitions. Our neurofeedback practitioners take time to explain what a session involves and help you consider whether it could have a place in your care.
I also want you to meet our graduate practicum counsellors. I value the care they bring to their sessions and their willingness to reflect on their work in supervision. They’re an important part of our team, and their work helps make counselling accessible to more people in our community.
If you’re unsure where to begin, tell us a little about what you’re looking for. We can help you think through who might be a good fit.
Clinical Background
Dr. Michael Dadson earned his PhD in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he also served as an adjunct professor and advised the Centre for Group Counselling and Trauma. He is the Clinical Director at Gentle Currents Therapy and provides clinical supervision. He previously served as National Executive Director and Clinical Director of the Veterans Transition Network. He is a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and served on its board.
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“Contributing to the personal transformation of others gives me great meaning. I find a personal sense of, significance and energy as I see others face painful circumstances, become more of themselves, see their family change and accomplish their own unique goals.”
The Sequential Trauma Narrative
The Sequential Trauma Narrative emerged in part from Dr. Dadson’s long-term clinical practice, clinical supervision, public policy participation, public advocacy, media activity, and national program-development work with trauma-affected individuals, families, veterans, first responders, couples, clinicians, and communities.
As a clinical and public education framework, the Sequential Trauma Narrative explores how traumatic experiences are encoded, stored, remembered, narrated, and gradually transformed. Rather than treating trauma only as a cluster of symptoms, the framework helps explain how trauma can fragment memory, identity, attachment, nervous-system regulation, relationship patterns, and meaning.
The framework provides a relationally grounded way to understand recovery as the rebuilding of coherence. It helps describe how individuals and families move from fragmented survival narratives toward a more integrated understanding of self, relationship, loss, survival, and future possibility.
The Sequential Trauma Narrative reflects Dr. Dadson’s broader public mental health activity across PTSD, operational stress injuries, veteran transition, first responder trauma, dissociation, group counselling, therapist development, couples counselling, men’s mental health, and family recovery.
“I believe that being compassionately present with others, using proven fine-tuned skills in a non-judgmental atmosphere of acceptance creates the space and place where transformation begins. Unconditional acceptance mixed with compassion and empathy is the garden where suffering fertilizes human potential and growth is realized.”
Clinical Experience and Areas of Practice
Psychotherapy
Dr. Dadson is trained in and has extensive experience with:
- Certified QPRT Suicide Risk Assessment and Management
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy Level One
- Certified Observed & Experiential Integration (OEI) Therapist and Trainer
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level One
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level Two
- Enactment Therapy Level One and Two
Neurotherapy
Dr. Dadson is currently the owner/director of Gentle Currents Counselling and Neuro Feedback a division of Dadson Consulting Services Inc. and has served the Brookswood area of Langley for over 25 years.
Depression and Anxiety
Dr. Dadson continues to help a full range of diverse individuals, couples, and families overcome depression, anxiety, PTSD, dissociative disorders, adjustment issues and developmental attachment injuries.
Trauma Therapy
Selected Research and Public Work
- Research. Read his UBC doctoral dissertation on men’s recovery from intergenerational wounds and his co-authored study of a group intervention for veterans who experienced military-related trauma.
- Parliamentary testimony. Read his House of Commons testimony on PTSD and operational stress injuries from March 22, 2016.
- Media and public education. Explore selected media coverage and commentary on veteran transition, trauma recovery, and mental health.
Professional Enquiries
For questions about STN, research, or media, use the form below. For counselling or appointments, please contact Gentle Currents Therapy directly.
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Hours & Access to Care
Seven days a week
8:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
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