I approach my work as a counsellor with gratitude for the guidance of practitioners who have supported me over the past decade. My own personal work, including letting go of the belief that I must navigate everything alone, motivated me to pursue a change in career to counseling in my 5th decade.

My practices of self-reflection— including therapy, group process work, meditation and time in nature support me to reliably show up for clients with compassion and curiosity, and with respect for a diversity of lived experiences. I continue to pursue personal work as we can only show up for others as well as we show up for ourselves. 

I am a second-generation settler of mixed Japanese and European ancestry living on the traditional territories of the K’omoks First Nation on Vancouver Island, BC, with my partner and daughter.