EMDR Practitioner + Associate Clinical Counsellor*

SUPERVISED BY ABBY CHOW, MA, RCC-ACS #14742

Hi there, thank you for being here. I work with clients who often feel overwhelmed by what life is bringing, and who may be re-visited by the past in ways that are painful and difficult to manage. Does this sound like what you’re going through as well? If so, I would love to support you as you journey through these tougher landscapes. Each of us has unique layers of wounds and protections that play a role in our lives, and as we work together by engaging your healing capacities, those protections can become more helpful to you and the future you want to create. It is absolutely possible to experience life with more love, connection, and a vivid sense of well-being.

I anchor my practice in Trauma-based and Narrative theories. What can you expect from this? I will invite us to share our expertise and build a collaborative relationship together. For example, I am trained as a counsellor and can offer tools and prompts for deeper insights — but you are the expert of your lived experiences and the decision-maker for what is to come. To best support our therapeutic relationship, I strive to co-create safer, accepting, and anti-oppressive environments. With your permission, I will also invite space to welcome mind, body, and spirit to be part of the process.

This is my foundational approach to working with both individuals and relationships. I do not believe there is one way of being in relationships — relationships are defined by the folks in them, and I invite a collaborative approach in determining the goals and the paths to get there. Compared to individual counselling, the focus in relationship counselling expands from the needs and experiences of one person to include the needs and experiences of others in the relationship. The theories I anchor in for this work include Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Satir, and the Gottman Method. Click here to find out more about relationship counselling.

A bit more about me… I am an able-bodied cis/het woman, born and raised in BC with South Korean ancestry. I live with my husband on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. I was raised with Christian traditions, although I am not currently involved in any particular religious community. I regard spirituality to be a connection with what is sacred, and I believe we can encounter the sacred in ways as unique and diverse as we ourselves are.

I have also lived through my own share of wounds and can relate to the courage it takes to begin working with a counsellor. If you are interested in exploring whether we might be a good fit for each other, please email or book a session with me. I would love to meet you, and I would be honoured to be part of your process.

*All MA Counselling Psychology degree requirements (including coursework, exams and practicums) have been completed except for my thesis, which I am pursuing to explore the relationship between developmental trauma healing and spirituality.

Additional Clinical Training: 

• Advanced Master Program on the Treatment of Trauma (in-progress; NICABM)Cultural Safety &
• Countertransference (Rahim Thawer, The South African College of Applied Psychology)
  
• DBT Skills with Marsha Linehan (Behavioral Tech Research)
  
• EMDR Therapy Training (September 2022, Sue Genest)
  
• Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Core Training (Adele LeFrance)
  
• EQ-in-Action Profile Practitioner (Leaning in Action Technologies)
  
• Gottman Method Couples Therapy - Level 1 (The Gottman Institute)
  
• Indigenous Canada (University of Alberta, Coursera)
  
• Integral Associate Coach (Integral Coaching Canada)
  
• Internal Family Systems: Clinical Applications (in-progress; Frank Guastella Anderson)
  
• Marginalized Folx and Eating Disorders (Marcella Raimondo)
  
• Mindfulness & Neuroscience (UBC Continuing Studies)
  
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Step I & Step II (Psychometrics Canada)