Now more than ever, counsellors, social support agencies, and practices are being called to transform the colonial and oppressive practices that underpin the development of our professions. With the overwhelming amounts of information, shadow-banning algorithms, and the harms of academia + colonial indoctrination; this work can be daunting.
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” – Maya Angelou
There is no shame in not knowing. Nowhere does ethics and the depth of commitment to justice-oriented practice show up more than in places where you don’t know. Places where new information invites pause and shifts your worldview. Places where you feel vulnerable and uncomfortable, but you choose to shift anyway.
Our justice-oriented clinical supervisor in Vancouver can offer an external perspective and guidance as you seek to foundationally integrate your ethics of equity and justice into your work.
Anti-oppressive clinical supervision supports you to lead practices and conversations that challenge oppressive systems and deconstruct power dynamics within work, life, and community settings. Let’s develop your practice through generative exploration so that your work is grounded in justice-doing.
MA, RCC-ACS (she/her)
I’m an avid explorer of wonder and possibility, aspirational human database for systemic awareness, co-creator with the magic that still manages to survive in this dumpster fire world, lover of all things with faces that probably shouldn’t have faces on it & cat-reel aficionado.
I navigate the world as a cisqueer, working-turned-middle class, straight-sized settler from Hong Kong who lives with chronic pain and ADHD. My ancestors come from roots in Chaozhou and Nanjing, and a lineage of creating sneaky practices to survive necropolitics, and refugeeism.
My work from frontline victim services to clinical counsellor and then to providing clinical supervision and teaching in postgraduate programs kept me curious about what it means to be human in this world, and what it means to be well in a world that’s so unwell.
For the last decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with folx resisting multiple systems of oppression, which often manifests as being impacted by the criminal punishment system, addictions, and relational trauma.
And now? I founded and run Venturous Counselling and Reflecting on Justice, a virtual community for therapists to unlearn systemic oppression together through free resources, a community membership, and various training programs. As well as co-founded and co-run Prospect Counselling, a Queer, POC-led, radical training practice that redirects proceeds from services to provide further training so that SDQTBIPOC+ communities can access justice-oriented counselling, while funding projects for collective healing within communities. I am also part of the operations team at Healing in Colour and clinically supervise various local non-profit agencies and group practices.
The biggest guiding force in our work together is co-creation. Instead of only asking you questions about what you would do in a particular circumstance or telling you the “right way” to move forward, we’ll explore together the ethics and values you want to embody; the intricacies of supporting your clients with the contextual awareness of societal systems in its current and historical iterations; and the vision of the world you want to build in your life, practice and the larger context of the world we live in.
No healing practice or logistics-related question is off-limits, and we look at all topics of consideration through a systemic, political lens that recognizes the messiness of being complicit in the medical industrial complex, while dreaming up liberatory practices for our collective wellness.
Let’s dream up something so, so much better.
Aside from workshopping together, humour is a big part of my approach, as well as holding space for grieving and radically loving accountability, offering perspectives from anti-oppressive scholars and activists.
I read a lot — particularly around liberatory praxes like intersectional, anti-carceral feminism, disability justice, transformative justice, and abolition — so make sure to tap me in as a human database to support your processing and clinical decision making!
Above all else, I want you to know that you are not alone in this work. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel by yourself and there’s always more community and solidarity and joy and sustainability available to you than you know.
Let’s dream up something so, so much better.
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occupying the stolen, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Qayqayt, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) peoples. Our relationship with these lands dictates our commitment to understanding and responding to the ongoing impacts of colonization in our practices in and out of the counselling room.
Learn more about the land you’re occupying at native-land.ca
