Compassionate and Personalized Counselling
Counselling services are provided both virtually across British Columbia and in-person in Vancouver. Sessions can be 50 minutes or 80 minutes, depending on your needs.
Areas of Special Interest
Childhood trauma, which includes parental neglect, parental abandonment, geographical displacement as a child, the death of a parent, and physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual abuse, can continue to affect your adult life.
It can diminish your sense of safety and negatively affect your ability to trust and connect with others, your boundaries in relationships, your self-worth, and the way you view the world.
I can help you regain your sense of self so that you can build relationships with yourself and others and navigate the world in an empowered manner.
Witnessing another person’s pain may lead to absorbing their pain.
For example, being a supportive friend to someone who has unresolved trauma, a mental health professional, a healthcare professional or a first responder may open you to vicarious trauma.
The symptoms of vicarious trauma can mimic symptoms of trauma. Unattended vicarious trauma can lead to compassion fatigue, burnout, and may lead to loss of your chosen career.
Therefore, it is important to actively engage in preventative care.
PTSD and CPTSD
If you are living with PTSD or CPTSD, daily life can feel exhausting.
You may experience symptoms like chronic pain, difficulty sleeping, intrusive thoughts, difficulty regulating your emotions, or feeling like you are stuck in survival mode, even when there is no clear danger in front of you.
While PTSD can develop due to a single event, experiencing multiple traumatic events over time, and often starting early in life, can result in CPTSD. It can affect your development, and quality of life.
I can help you process your traumatic experiences and gain skills with a focus on post-traumatic growth at a pace that feels safe for you.
Whether it is the death of a loved one, health issues, geographic displacement, immigration, the end of a relationship, or something else entirely, loss can come in many different forms, and you may experience grief as a result.
Grief can affect your physical and mental health, and you may experience symptoms such as sadness, guilt, apathy, fatigue, physical pain, loss of appetite, trouble sleeping, and difficulty making decisions.
I offer gentle support as you move through your grief and guidance to reclaim your life and establish a new normal.
Caring for your elderly parents can involve helping them navigate the activities of daily living and the health-care system.
And while your focus is on your loved one, it can be hard to notice the strain it places on your well-being.
As a result, burnout can show up as exhaustion, resentment, guilt, emotional depletion, or feeling like you have nothing left to give.
I can help you set and enforce compassionate boundaries and gain skills to emotionally regulate yourself so that you can care for yourself while you take care of your elderly parents.
Shame is useful for our survival; however, it can also be internalized, taking the form of an inner critic harshly judging our every move.
It can make us shrink from life, feel like we do not belong, and think that we do not matter. It can be a result of trauma (e.g., abusive parents, childhood sexual abuse, racism, bullying, intergenerational trauma).
Many of us resort to different ways of avoiding shame (e.g., perfectionism, workaholism, substance use).
Exploring the root cause of shame and taking action to overcome it can lead to a fulfilling life.
EMDR, EFT, and CBT Support
I draw from a variety of therapeutic modalities, including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), customized according to your needs and goals.
These approaches are supported by research for their effectiveness and can help you heal from your problems instead of only talking about them.
Other Areas of Practice
Anxiety
Burnout
Chronic dissatisfaction/unhappiness
Creative block
Depression
Immigration and loss of culture
Life transitions
Loneliness and Isolation
Low Self-esteem
Menopause
Racism
Stress
Fees
$160 (50 minute session)
$240 (80 minute session)
Payments are due by e-transfer prior to the session.
A surcharge of $5 will be applied for credit card payments.
Sliding scale slots are currently full.
Cancellation Policy
Kindly provide 48-hours notice for cancellation, otherwise, full fee will be charged, except for emergencies.
