Portrait of a person of Chinese descent with short black hair wearing a gray coat, with a black shirt layered on top of a white tee shirt underneath. They are smiling and standing outdoors with greenery in the background.

I'm a counsellor (RCC, MACP) working on the Unceded Coast Salish territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam nations (Vancouver). I'm a queer second-generation Chinese immigrant settler, and I was born and raised on amiskwaciy-wâskahikan (Edmonton).

My areas of speciality are largely informed by lived experiences, and my journey in counselling began from a desire to see myself and my communities represented in mental health circles.

I work with clients using an trauma-informed, intersectional, disability justice, and anti-oppressive lens, which means that I'll be attuned to the complexities of your lived experiences and the potential societal and structural influences on your life.

In our work together, I will strive to facilitate the following:

  • prioritize collaboration, where I will follow your lead when exploring what feels right for you and your healing

  • create a space where all parts of yourself can feel included

  • work through patterns and experiences that feel “stuck”

  • getting in touch with your emotions and body at the pace that feels aligned with you

  • improving relationship with yourself and others

*See Areas of Specialty and Approaches below for more information

    • Navigating systemic oppression and marginalization

    • Trauma (complex trauma, PTSD, intergenerational trauma)

    • Healing from attachment wounds, including those from early childhood, that may impact adult relationships

    • Diasporic identity (reconciling with two or more cultural identities)

    • Racialization

    • Sexual orientation and/or gender identity (including reconciling cultural identities with LGBTQ2S+ identities)

    • Neurodivergence

    • Navigating various relationship structures such as polyamory/nonmonogamy

    • Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with the BCACC

    • Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Adler University

      • Thesis: What Helps, Hinders, and is Wished for by LGBTQ2S+ BIPOC When Seeking Mental Health Services?

    • Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Alberta

    • Bringing the Body into Practice, Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy by Lisa Mortimore

    • Somatics Foundations for Q/T & BIPOC Practitioners by Fayza Bundalli

    • EMDR Training by Sue Genest 

    • Advanced EMDR Training by Dolores Mosquera 

    • Gender-affirming Hormone Readiness Assessment Training by J. Matsui De Roo

    • Trauma-Informed Practice Training by Alyson Quinn

    • Gottman Couples Therapy 

  • ​Cantonese (conversational), Mandarin (conversational)