Areas of Focus
Topics
Relational Challenges
- Family Conflict
- Relationship Issues
- Communication Skills
- Adult Child of Immigrant Parents
- Racial Discrimination
- Marginalization
- Social Anxiety
Trauma Recovery
- Adverse Childhood Trauma
- Intergenerational Trauma
- Complex Trauma
- Attachment Healing
- Codependency
- Abuse
Coping Challenges
- Anxiety
- Depression
- ADHD Life Skills
- Work Stress & Burnout
- Perfectionism
- Identity Exploration
- Life Transitions
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Abuse & Marginalization
Our sense of safety and security is impacted when we are exposed to discrimination and abusive environments. The disempowering nature of these experiences is deeply painful and isolating. We may learn to invalidate ourselves and struggle with intrusive thoughts, chronic feelings of guilt, shame, and unworthiness.
As someone with extensive lived experience, I am here to offer safe, affirmative support where you can share your experiences without feeling alone or misunderstood.
I aim to support you through an anti-oppressive lens that examines systemic influences and power dynamics, incorporating psychoeducation and resilience-informed interventions to help rebuild your capacity for recovery and regain your agency.
Adverse Childhood Trauma Recovery
Childhood experiences can be traumatic when they overwhelm our nervous system and exceed our ability to cope. This can disrupt our emotional development and leave lasting imprints that cause us to react with fight-flight-freeze-fawn patterns, which we may carry into adulthood to avoid perceived threats and pain.
During this important healing period, I offer a safe presence and a trauma-informed approach to gently explore how these past experiences impact you today and build stability through a roadmap of tools and resources to help you find relief in your daily life.
With my extensive lived experience and understanding, my intention is to be a compassionate and safe connection to support you with regaining your sense of safety, security, and agency.
As we progress through the stages of healing, I will support you in uncovering your inherent strengths and true self beneath these early life experiences, leading to a sense of wholeness and emotional freedom.
Family & Relationship Issues
Human connection is essential to our well-being, and issues within our relationships can have a direct impact on our mental health. These experiences can feel like being caught in the eye of the storm, often leaving us feeling confused and emotionally drained as we struggle to respond to conflict and challenging dynamics.
In sessions, we will take an exploratory approach, unpacking the dilemmas you are facing and working towards developing a clearer perspective on what is truly behind all the tension and noise. You will be invited to learn evidence-based communication practices and coping tools, such as boundary setting and emotional regulation, so you can be better equipped to navigate tough situations.
I will support you in processing difficult experiences that arise in the process with compassion and openness, meeting you where you are.
Exploring Cross-Cultural & Bicultural Identity
Cross-cultural and bicultural experiences are uniquely challenging. We often face the challenge of trying to find our way in the world while straddling two different cultures often with contrasting views. This journey can be full of self-doubt and uncertainty, leading us to feel lost, conflicted and insecure about our identity.
As an Asian person of colour and second generation Canadian settler, I am passionate about honouring you by providing a respectful and culturally safe space to explore your identity. My intention is to offer dignity, respect and safety as you gain clarity about who you are and what you stand for.
Our sessions will be grounded with inclusive, anti-oppressive values, where I stand alongside you, acknowledging social, cultural and systemic influences while honouring you as a fellow human being.
People Pleasing & Self Esteem Issues
Our innate desire for acceptance and belonging is deeply rooted in our neurobiology. When we experience rejection, we can become vulnerable to insecurity, struggling with self-doubt and feelings of unworthiness.
This vulnerability can lead to coping mechanisms such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome, which serve to soothe our insecurities and protect us from painful rejection. Working from an attachment theory perspective, I recognize how early experiences with caregivers can shape these tendencies, leading us to focus excessively on others or engage in unhealthy performance-driven behaviours at the expense of neglecting our own needs.
In sessions, I provide a compassionate presence to address guilt, shame, and self-defeating patterns, facilitating deeper reflection so you can enhance your self-understanding and build greater confidence in your relationship with yourself.
Workplace Anxiety, Stress & Burnout
Our roles can be a major source of stress, whether it’s parenting, caregiving, or the workplace. When we are tasked with managing overwhelming demands and limited resources, the pressure to perform and achieve takes a toll on our physical, emotional, and mental health.
Together, we will uncover the underlying factors behind this stress, explore your relationship with your work life, and connect the dots on how it impacts your well-being. Taking a holistic approach, I will support you in learning how to regulate your nervous system, reframe these challenges from a new perspective, and explore practical tools and resources for finding relief in your daily life.
Navigating Grief, Loss & Life Change
Life is full of change, and how we cope during these times can affect our mental health. Life transitions come with uncertainty and can impact our sense of security and normalcy.
When a new chapter unfolds, even in the case of positive change, we may struggle to come to terms with the loss of what we are leaving behind.
During our sessions, I will support you in acknowledging and exploring how this change is impacting both your internal and external life. For significant losses, I will facilitate a safe space to grieve and honour what these losses meant, and together we will create coping strategies that resonate authentically with you.
Throughout this important time, you will be supported in working towards finding new meaning and regaining a sense of hope and wholeness.
