“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety."

 

- Abraham Maslow

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Counselling can provide a safe space for you to be heard without prejudice. This therapeutic relationship involves connecting with someone who is trained to provide culturally responsive support, with a commitment to honouring diverse backgrounds and the passion to improve lives cultural understanding.

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This relationship values your voice, your cultural story, your lived experiences, your emotions, your cultural identity, and your emotions, your ideas, your personal goals, and your dreams. Through cultural humility and recognition of your intersectional identities, meaningful trust can develop.

 

With you as the expert on your life, a counsellor can step in by uncovering more aspects of yourself, help you develop more self-awareness, and tools to investigate your intra and interpersonal relationships. This relationship can provide a platform from which you navigate and explore yourself, with relation to your past, your internal world, and how you relate with others. 

 

               

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two

chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

 

- Carl Jung

 

With you as the expert on your life and cultural experiences, a culturally competent counsellor can help uncover more aspects of yourself, develop greater cultural self-awareness, and provide tools to navigate both intrapersonal understanding and cross-cultural relationships. This therapeutic alliance offers a platform from which you can explore yourself in relation to your cultural history, your internal world, and how you relate with others across different cultural contexts.

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This relationship also provides a supportive environment to develop culturally appropriate coping strategies, consider new cultural paradigms, examine internalized beliefs, and embrace healing practices that honor your heritage.

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Whether brief or ongoing, counselling becomes meaningful when cultural growth and understanding are central. As Theodore Roosevelt said, "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty..."                                  

 

Thus, it is important to acknowledge that seeking therapeutic support can require you to carve out the space, energy, and resources that you may not be accustomed to yet.

 

    

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

 

- Carl R. Rogers

 

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As a practitioner committed to cultural humility and adopting a collaborative approach within a biopsychosocio-spiritual model that respects diverse worldviews, I am as dedicated as you are to your growth across all dimensions of your identity.

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Specialized in:

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Cultural identity exploration

Intergenerational trauma

Immigration and acculturation stress

Racial trauma healing

Collective community healing

Culturally adaptive coping strategies

Social justice informed practice​​​​