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About My Clients
Your brain gets it but your body hasn't caught up. Are you someone who understands the story of your past, yet you still can't shake the patterns of behavior and spirals you find yourself in? I support folks who want to get out of their thinking brains and into their feelings. We'll create a space to safely attend to your nervous system and not just understand the past, but to transform it's impact. I know what it's like because I've been there myself, and I look forward to meeting you!
My Background and Approach
I bring a relational, strengths-based and trauma-informed approach to our work together. I believe therapy should be a space of collaboration, honesty and mutual learning, one that can at times be challenging, but also filled with joy and celebration. I’m in this work to help people access more choice, connection and commitment to the people and the work that they care about. I completed my Master’s in Social Work at University of Toronto's Indigenous Trauma and Resiliency program. I draw from somatic practice, relational approaches, attachment theory, harm reduction and healing justice. I am a queer, mixed-race, Filipino-American, and I bring my lived experience to our work together, alongside a lens of informed curiosity for those with experiences and perspectives I don’t personally share. I often support folks working through mood issues, grief and loss, complex trauma, and family of origin challenges.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I have also been deeply embedded in anti-imperialist community organizing work with other Filipinos in diaspora since 2017, work that I am committed to supporting alongside my role as the therapist because I believe in the importance of dismantling the systems of oppression that land many of us in therapy in the first place. I am dedicated to the work of helping people rebuild connections with self and others because I know that in the same way that trauma reverberates through generations, healing will too.