My Approach to Helping
Thanks for getting curious about me and visiting my profile :)
I'm Taiwanese-Canadian, fluently bilingual (EN中), and have a personal and in-depth understanding of multicultural identities, difficult relationships, and the need to "hide" our negative emotions in today's world. I'm also a Chartered Professional of HR, which means I can help you with your career - including direction, advancement, negotiations, management coaching, loss, and interpersonal issues in the workplace.
Here are examples of topics from my past successes with clients: anxiety, depression, negative core beliefs - I'm not good enough, trauma, ADHD, perfectionism, anger management, emotional suppression, impostor syndrome, workaholism, burnout, people pleasing, dysfunctional + destructive conflicts, fear of rejection, failure, and abandonment, breakups + separation divorce, infidelity, and coparenting.
I’m a social spirit who enjoys pottery, dancing, boxing, and playing with my dog (Dobby). I'm a certified yoga instructor and teach mindfulness with clay workshops. I'm the founder of Tiger Cub Therapy (supporting mental health of Asians). Come for a free 15min virtual consultation and let's find out if we are a MATCH :)
I'm looking forward to meeting you already!
More Info About My Practice
Sessions are online w Zoom or in-person in South Vancouver.
Office Hours: 10am to 6pm, Mondays to Fridays.
An online invoice will be provided to you through email after each session. Every invoice from us will include the clinic info, the clinical supervisor's name, their license number, the name of the counsellor, and the session's date, time, type and length for your ease of claim submission.
In our sessions, you can expect a passionate, supportive, and collaborative counsellor. You will be empowered to make choices, create goals, and most importantly, move at a pace that works for you. We will work together to build awareness around your thoughts and emotions, communication skills, coping skills, and to explore any tendencies preventing you from becoming the person you want to be.
On the Fence About Going to Therapy?
What helped my clients take their step into therapy is considering how long they have felt trapped by their suffering in this "stuckness" that rarely lets go. How often do you spend time feeling down about yourself from self-criticisms? How often do you find yourself people-pleasing, self-silencing, and betraying your needs? How often are you emotionally compartmentalizing, so you don't burst open from the darkness within? These moments in time become habits that keep you stuck in this pattern if your auto-pilot is left unchecked.
Day-by-day, this builds a life that is full of torment, so you must try and escape to distract yourself with overuse of unhealthy coping mechanisms like watching tv, using social media, dating apps, shopping, gaming, work, travel, sex, and use of substances. You feel less and less yourself with each passing day, and that's probably how I found you on this fence! You are hoping that the right help is out there, and it is, so come off that fence towards me and let's figure it out together!
Coming from a traditional culture within the Chinese diaspora, seeing a therapist can be highly stigmatized and shameful for the Asian population. Asking for help (any kind of help, really) can already feel like a failure and losing face, let alone asking for help from a therapist. Many Asian cultures have elders, who do not believe in the existence of mental health, but you're NOT them. You've made it on Good Therapy to read therapist profiles, so you've already taken that first step - to be curious!
I'll be waiting for you. Come see me when you feel ready!
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