Therapy with me: it’s about feeling truly seen
With me, you’ll feel safe, supported, believed in, and deeply understood. But you’ll also be challenged, pushed toward growth, and encouraged to step into your strength. I’ll be right there beside you—not just as a therapist but as an active supporter. I’ll celebrate your wins, sit with you in your hard moments, and even share in the crying, swearing, and frustration when life gets messy.
Yes, we’ll navigate the tough, dark places, but we’ll also make space for laughter, lightness, and playfulness. Because healing doesn’t only happen by going through the darkness—it also happens in the light.
My background & experience
I was drawn to healing and the mystery of existence, so I began my journey studying a Bachelor of Science at the University of British Columbia, with the intention of becoming a doctor. But by the end of my degree, I realized it wasn’t just the origins of the physical world or the treatment of physical pain that moved me. What stirred something deeper was the existential origin of our suffering—and the emotional pain that arises when we lose connection to that origin. The quiet ache beneath the surface. The longing for meaning, belonging, and wholeness.
That realization shifted my path. I went on to pursue a Master’s in Human Development, Learning, and Culture at UBC, focusing on how emotional and social intelligence could be nurtured through meditation in education. But during that process, I encountered a difficult truth: in Western contexts, tools like meditation are often stripped from their spiritual roots and used in ways that bypass rather than transform pain.
It wasn’t until I began studying existential philosophy and the human psyche that things truly clicked. I came to believe that the formation of the self—and the kind of healing that leads to lasting transformation—happens in authentic, one-on-one relationships.
Since then, I’ve trained in multiple psychotherapy modalities, including psychodynamic therapy, Internal Family Systems, and trauma-informed approaches. Each has offered a unique lens into what it means to be human, to heal, and to grow.
My work is grounded in the belief that real change begins when we turn inward with compassion and curiosity. Today, I support individuals navigating trauma, anxiety, life transitions, and the deeper questions that don’t always have quick or simple answers. I work best with those who are ready to explore, reflect, and reconnect with a more authentic self.
Therapy, at its core, is a courageous act of remembering who you are. I’m here to walk alongside you in that remembering.
My Philosophy of Therapy
From the moment we’re born, we begin walking a developmental path toward our highest potential. To grow along that path, we need three essential experiences: safety, meaning, and connection. When these needs go unmet—through trauma, neglect, inconsistent attachment, or internalized criticism—our emotional, psychological, cognitive, and existential development becomes disrupted.
But development doesn’t simply pause. Parts of us get stuck. Others go underground. Some become wounded. Over time, these disruptions give rise to existential pain—a quiet mourning for what we lost or never had, and a deep angst about how to live with the limitations of existence.
As children, we depend entirely on our caregivers to meet our needs. When that support is absent or inconsistent, we adapt—not out of choice, but survival. We might internalize a parent’s critical voice, abandon parts of ourselves they disapproved of, or develop protective behaviors to shield us from chaos, rejection, or pain. These patterns become embedded in how we see the world and ourselves. As adults, they continue—often unconsciously—sabotaging our ability to connect, feel safe, and live fully.
Therapy is the space where we begin to gently untangle these patterns.
Therapy is where we begin to gently unravel the patterns that shape our inner and outer worlds. We start by naming what we feel—shame, fear, guilt, envy, confusion—and learning how these emotions live in the body. We notice when and how they arise, and what situations, thoughts, or relationships tend to trigger them.
As we track these emotional and bodily responses, we begin to see the protective strategies we’ve developed—strategies that once helped us survive but now show up as familiar patterns in our relationships: distancing, people-pleasing, shutting down, controlling, over-explaining, anger, avoidance. These aren’t flaws; they’re deeply intelligent adaptations formed in response to earlier pain.
With time and care, we trace these patterns back to the younger, more vulnerable parts of us they were trying to protect—the parts carrying unmet needs, unprocessed grief, or buried fear. Therapy offers a space to meet those parts with curiosity and compassion, allowing what was once hidden to slowly come into the light and begin to heal.
Sometimes, feelings toward our early caregivers resurface in the therapy room. This isn’t a setback; it’s a sacred opportunity. When a client expresses those feelings and the therapist responds with care, consistency, and repair, a new kind of experience unfolds—one that can reach the original wound, but this time, within the safety of a healing relationship.
Therapy is rarely linear. It is circular, messy, and alive. Often, what we cannot yet name, we act out or feel in the presence of the therapist. Good therapy makes space for this to emerge, without rushing to fix or interpret. The therapist does not impose meaning but helps the client give voice to what was once unspeakable.
Therapy is not about fixing you.
It’s about returning to your developmental path—reclaiming the safety, connection, and meaning that were once out of reach. It’s about finding your way back to yourself.
And the work is not easy.
It’s brave, awkward, beautiful, boring, painful, fascinating, and deeply human.
It requires courage, curiosity, compassion, and commitment.
But it is, in the truest sense, a journey toward freedom.