Counselling & Social Services

PCFSA provides a range of counselling and social services for residents across South Vancouver Island. These include work with isolated seniors, individuals addressing family violence, youth outreach and email counselling, youth gang and exploitation prevention and intervention, family and couples counselling, counselling to address substance use, mental health counselling, and trauma therapy.

Community Health Centre – Medical Services

The Westshore Community Health Centre (WSCHC) is a new multidisciplinary primary care centre operated by Pacific Centre Family Services Association (PCFSA) which is designed to bring low-barrier, trauma-informed coordinated healthcare to the underserved populations of the Westshore and their families.

Counselling Internship Program

Thank you for your interest in joining the Pacific Centre Family Services Association team!

PCFSA delivers counselling and other supportive programs for children, youth, adults, groups and families.

Our Counselling Internship Program is designed to provide training in intermediate and advanced counselling skills for those pursuing a Masters degree in counselling.

Interns provide counselling to adult individuals through PCFSA Short-Term Affordable Counselling Program and to youth under 30 through our Youth Talk E-Mail Counselling Program.

There may be opportunities, depending both on intern interest and ability, and programming requirements, for interns to work with clients from other PCFSA programs such as Youth Services and Stopping The Violence.

We are now accepting applications for our May 2025-December 2025 Internship and our September 2025-May 2026 Internship. Please specify in your application which stream you are applying for. Please note for our September 2025- May 2026 cohort, we don’t interview until April 2025 in accordance with University of Victoria’s interview timeline.

Counselling Internship Program Application Form 2024

Internship Requirements

Territory Acknowledgement

Pacific Centre Family Services Association acknowledges and gives thanks to the Lkwungen peoples, also known as the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nation communities, for allowing us to live, work, and play on their lands. We also respectfully recognize other surrounding nations Scia’new (Beecher Bay) First Nation, T’Sou-ke (Sooke) Nation, and Pacheedaht First Nation (Port Renfrew).