No one taught us business practices in life, let alone grad school! (Unless you did a business or accounting degree, but I digress.)
Having a thorough understanding of how your business structure and practices are impacting your work is crucial to building a sustainable practice that has space for you to prioritize your justice-oriented projects in both paid and unpaid work.
As today’s systemic landscape becomes even more difficult to navigate — it can feel overwhelming when faced with decision making that has impact on not just your business but also the larger oppressive system.
This is where the intersection between business and ethics collide.
By engaging in justice-oriented business consulting, you’ll be supported with both the practical skills and in unlearning default indoctrinations of oppression affecting your practice. Let’s co-create structures and procedures that align with your liberatory ethics.
No worries, I gotchu. With justice-oriented business consulting, you’ll not only get a crash course in business management from a fellow business operator, but also generative exploration that deconstructs capitalism and connects you with community so that your practice 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.
founding and running 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-founding and co-running 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/provide business consulting to various local non-profit agencies and group practices.
Fun fact: Before becoming a therapist, I was formally trained in graphic design, marketing, and business management!
These resources are born from real questions and challenges faced by practitioners like you, shaped by our community’s needs, and offered freely as part of our vision for transformative change in mental health care.
Let’s dream up something so, so much better.
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, what your practice can look like.
Not only will we dream up a better way to approach business practice, I will also support you from a practical standpoint as a business operator myself.
From starting up and managing your team, accounting and developing business structures, to branding and design support — know that you are not alone in this work. Together, we can workshop and create through a systemic, political lens that recognizes the messiness of being complicit, and how we can move forward.
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
No one taught us business practices in life, let alone grad school! These resources were born from real questions and challenges faced by practitioners just like you. No more reinventing the wheel on your own, we’ve gotchu!
