Warm Greetings! I am grateful that you’re here. I joyfully honour you showing up in the therapeutic space, and I recognize the intrinsic strength and courage that takes. You’ve got this, and I’m here with you.
Here are some ways I hope to show up for you, and some things you can expect from me. You can expect someone who values and aims to lead with curiosity, recognition, collaboration, warmth, and space. I believe that your innate knowing is the centre of our work together, and that our time can be a collaborative space to build around this. I might invite us to slow down or pause so that we can focus on safely reflecting on and exploring together.
I offer individual and relationship counselling. Some things that enter the therapeutic space, when called upon by the client’s needs and situation, are parts work, focus the body’s experience and needs, playfulness and humour, and creativity. You could describe my approach as multidisciplinary and spacious, prioritizing co-creation and collaboration.
I work with clients who are navigating their relationships with self, others, and the world. I recognize the intersectionality, complexity and uniqueness that comes with addressing and exploring your life and experiences with you, but here are some themes that tend to show up in my work with clients: relational dynamics and transitions, relationship to self and identity, navigation of the world and systems of oppression, life transitions, trauma, grief, loss, anxiety, depression, balance, and rest.
In relationship counselling, I work with partners wanting to explore their relational dynamics, events that have impacted the relationship, communication, reconnection to each other, and emotional intimacy, among other things. I cherish this work and am honoured to witness people enter a space collectively with the willingness to hear each other and heal together.
While I list some common themes here, I invite you to book a consultation and have a conversation about what might be going on to see if we may be a good fit.
A little bit about me: I am a cis, able-bodied, woman, born and raised in so-called Vancouver BC, with Indian ancestry. I am a second-gen, racialized settler living and working on the unceded and traditional lands of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō) nations. Connection, community, and playfulness are big values for me. Outside of my counselling work, I enjoy laughing with loved ones and connecting to practices and activities that spark creativity and joy. My personal journey includes reconnecting to self, navigating the impacts of chronic pain, renegotiating my relationship with slowness, and embracing the journey that rest is resistance within systems that push overwork and hyper-productivity. You could say these are some of my human qualifications.
I understand that finding the right counsellor for you is in itself a process. I would love to meet you through a free consultation and see if we may be a good fit or help you in your process to finding it (yay for rhyming)!
