Asian Therapists in V6B
Welcome! My name is Clem and I am an Asian Canadian of Chinese descent, originally from Toronto but have called BC home since 1998. My journey in the healing professions began 20 years ago in Victoria, BC, where I studied Shiatsu and other Eastern healing traditions. Since then, I have developed a personal therapeutic style that incorporates social justice, compassion, and a holistic view of the individual. I know that choosing a counsellor can be a daunting experience; it requires a commitment of energy, resources, and a great deal of courage. I have the deepest admiration and respect for anyone who is willing to ask for help.
Welcome! My name is Clem and I am an Asian Canadian of Chinese descent, originally from Toronto but have called BC home since 1998. My journey in the healing professions began 20 years ago in Victoria, BC, where I studied Shiatsu and other Eastern healing traditions. Since then, I have developed a personal therapeutic style that incorporates social justice, compassion, and a holistic view of the individual. I know that choosing a counsellor can be a daunting experience; it requires a commitment of energy, resources, and a great deal of courage. I have the deepest admiration and respect for anyone who is willing to ask for help.
Hello, I'm Luna (she/her/any), a female, Asian-European, queer, trilingual therapist (RTC, DVATI) based in Vancouver. Born in China and raised in Belgium, my multicultural background enriches my understanding and connection with clients from diverse cultures. I specialize in assisting women through significant life transitions such as separation and aging, and challenges including depression, sexual trauma, chronic health issues, and career burnout. My practice extends to addressing family dynamics, healing from family trauma, and supporting clients through experiences of racism, discrimination, and immigration trauma.
Hello, I'm Luna (she/her/any), a female, Asian-European, queer, trilingual therapist (RTC, DVATI) based in Vancouver. Born in China and raised in Belgium, my multicultural background enriches my understanding and connection with clients from diverse cultures. I specialize in assisting women through significant life transitions such as separation and aging, and challenges including depression, sexual trauma, chronic health issues, and career burnout. My practice extends to addressing family dynamics, healing from family trauma, and supporting clients through experiences of racism, discrimination, and immigration trauma.
Michelle Wing
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, RSW, RCC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Vancouver, BC V6B (Online Only)
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde. Hello, and welcome to Pamati Counselling. Pamati means listen in Cebuano. I am from mixed Asian ancestry, including Filipino, Chinese and Vietnamese. I was born in Toronto, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. My pronouns are she/her/they/them and I identify with the LGBTQ2s community. The intersectional movements of MeToo, and MMWGI, and Black Lives Matter inform my work.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde. Hello, and welcome to Pamati Counselling. Pamati means listen in Cebuano. I am from mixed Asian ancestry, including Filipino, Chinese and Vietnamese. I was born in Toronto, the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. My pronouns are she/her/they/them and I identify with the LGBTQ2s community. The intersectional movements of MeToo, and MMWGI, and Black Lives Matter inform my work.
Stephanie Ng - Heartspace Counselling And Art Therapy
Counsellor, MCP-AT, RCC, CCC, RCAT, CPT
Verified Verified
8 Endorsed
Vancouver, BC V6B
Currently accepting new clients for online/in-person sessions in Gastown, Downtown Vancouver in a therapeutic space known as Heartspace! If you are feeling blocked from joy or authenticity whether by stress, anxiety, negative cycles or Inner Critic, I warmly welcome you to work with me to reconnect with yourself in meaningful and creative ways. I work with children (aged 3+) and adults with anxiety, stress/burnout, trauma, and interpersonal/family issues; and empower BIPOC, women, university students and working individuals in their 20s to 30s explore personal growth, self-esteem, perfectionism, inner critic and imposter syndrome.
Currently accepting new clients for online/in-person sessions in Gastown, Downtown Vancouver in a therapeutic space known as Heartspace! If you are feeling blocked from joy or authenticity whether by stress, anxiety, negative cycles or Inner Critic, I warmly welcome you to work with me to reconnect with yourself in meaningful and creative ways. I work with children (aged 3+) and adults with anxiety, stress/burnout, trauma, and interpersonal/family issues; and empower BIPOC, women, university students and working individuals in their 20s to 30s explore personal growth, self-esteem, perfectionism, inner critic and imposter syndrome.
Welcome! My name is Lilian and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with a Master of Counselling Psychology (MCP). As long as I can remember, I have felt drawn to supporting others. As a first-generation immigrant from China, I often struggled with navigating cultural stigma towards mental health, while also finding language and compassion for my experiences. I’m also deeply familiar with the challenges of navigating personal identity and values in today’s complex landscape of societal, political, and religious structures. I truly believe that with the right fit counselling can be incredibly healing.
Welcome! My name is Lilian and I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) with a Master of Counselling Psychology (MCP). As long as I can remember, I have felt drawn to supporting others. As a first-generation immigrant from China, I often struggled with navigating cultural stigma towards mental health, while also finding language and compassion for my experiences. I’m also deeply familiar with the challenges of navigating personal identity and values in today’s complex landscape of societal, political, and religious structures. I truly believe that with the right fit counselling can be incredibly healing.
Lauren offers online/in person counselling in Gastown, Vancouver BC in a playful and creative space. If you're a youth, young adult or working professional who is struggling with big transitions and big feelings, you're in the right place. Lauren combines art therapy and counselling psychology to support those with struggling with anxiety, depression, perfectionism, trauma, cultural identity, and spiritual challenges. She also specializes in working with teens and adults diagnosed with ADHD. She strives to allow you to feel seen and heard while helping you process difficult emotions and overcome blocks one step at a time.
Lauren offers online/in person counselling in Gastown, Vancouver BC in a playful and creative space. If you're a youth, young adult or working professional who is struggling with big transitions and big feelings, you're in the right place. Lauren combines art therapy and counselling psychology to support those with struggling with anxiety, depression, perfectionism, trauma, cultural identity, and spiritual challenges. She also specializes in working with teens and adults diagnosed with ADHD. She strives to allow you to feel seen and heard while helping you process difficult emotions and overcome blocks one step at a time.
Are you yearning to live authentically and thrive in your relationships? Is your relationship with yourself and your partner clouded by self-doubt, hopelessness, and pain? You can change by recognizing your innate strengths and deepening your self-awareness. How you treat yourself is foundational to your well-being and connection with others. If your past dictates your present or you experience endless cycles of ineffective, unhealthy thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns, therapy can be the catalyst for the change you need. While therapy won’t eliminate life’s challenges, it’ll give you what you need to handle them effectively.
Are you yearning to live authentically and thrive in your relationships? Is your relationship with yourself and your partner clouded by self-doubt, hopelessness, and pain? You can change by recognizing your innate strengths and deepening your self-awareness. How you treat yourself is foundational to your well-being and connection with others. If your past dictates your present or you experience endless cycles of ineffective, unhealthy thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns, therapy can be the catalyst for the change you need. While therapy won’t eliminate life’s challenges, it’ll give you what you need to handle them effectively.
My name is Bruce Avery. I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Certified Sex Therapist, and the founder of Avery Therapy Centre. Most of my clients come from marginalized backgrounds and are queer and BIPOC. I work with a wide range of people who may seek increased perspective, self-understanding, and clarity in their everyday lives. I also work with people who may feel that anxiety, depression, or trauma (past/current) is hindering them from achieving a sense of fulfillment and purpose. I've found the work of counselling to be incredibly fulfilling, and feel honoured when trusted with the opportunity to learn about someone’s life.
My name is Bruce Avery. I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Certified Sex Therapist, and the founder of Avery Therapy Centre. Most of my clients come from marginalized backgrounds and are queer and BIPOC. I work with a wide range of people who may seek increased perspective, self-understanding, and clarity in their everyday lives. I also work with people who may feel that anxiety, depression, or trauma (past/current) is hindering them from achieving a sense of fulfillment and purpose. I've found the work of counselling to be incredibly fulfilling, and feel honoured when trusted with the opportunity to learn about someone’s life.
My approach to counselling is creative, gentle, hopeful, and liberatory. I believe in meeting each person where they are at & exploring imaginative ways of expressing and understanding ourselves (like play and art!). You can arrive exactly as you are - messy, tender, rageful, or whatever it may be. My practice is grounded in an anti-oppressive, justice-oriented lens. This means I will attune to your individual experience, alongside how systemic forces we exist within impacts your life. Leaning into justice in counselling looks like working towards reclaiming power, disrupting oppressive narratives, and liberation alongside healing.
My approach to counselling is creative, gentle, hopeful, and liberatory. I believe in meeting each person where they are at & exploring imaginative ways of expressing and understanding ourselves (like play and art!). You can arrive exactly as you are - messy, tender, rageful, or whatever it may be. My practice is grounded in an anti-oppressive, justice-oriented lens. This means I will attune to your individual experience, alongside how systemic forces we exist within impacts your life. Leaning into justice in counselling looks like working towards reclaiming power, disrupting oppressive narratives, and liberation alongside healing.
As the daughter of low-income immigrants, I intimately understand the complexities of navigating bicultural expectations and growing up with limited resources. I bring firsthand experience that allows me to deeply grasp the complexity and importance of incorporating an intersectional framework. Growing up, I rarely encountered BIPOC representation, making it more meaningful for me today to serve as a woman of colour counsellor. I have consistently sought roles in the helping profession that involve supporting others. I offer various forms of support to families and individuals with a wide range of mental health needs.
As the daughter of low-income immigrants, I intimately understand the complexities of navigating bicultural expectations and growing up with limited resources. I bring firsthand experience that allows me to deeply grasp the complexity and importance of incorporating an intersectional framework. Growing up, I rarely encountered BIPOC representation, making it more meaningful for me today to serve as a woman of colour counsellor. I have consistently sought roles in the helping profession that involve supporting others. I offer various forms of support to families and individuals with a wide range of mental health needs.
I have extensive experience working in a variety of settings, ranging from individuals dealing with substance use to those recovering from trauma; this also includes a variety of people, extending my help and skills to the LGBTQ+ community to those requiring palliative care. My aim is to empower clients to recognize their inner strength and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them. I strive to guide clients towards fostering a healthy mindset that aligns with their own definitions of well-being.
I have extensive experience working in a variety of settings, ranging from individuals dealing with substance use to those recovering from trauma; this also includes a variety of people, extending my help and skills to the LGBTQ+ community to those requiring palliative care. My aim is to empower clients to recognize their inner strength and gain a deeper understanding of the world around them. I strive to guide clients towards fostering a healthy mindset that aligns with their own definitions of well-being.
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Counsellor, MCP-AT, RCC, CCC, RCAT
Verified Verified
3 Endorsed
Vancouver, BC V6B
Decipher Counselling Art Therapy Studio offers creative, justice-oriented therapy for people dealing with experiences of invalidation, including any and all underrepresented communities. This may include processing trauma, navigating identities, life transitions, and power differences. We aim to create a space where people of all intersectionalities can feel like they belong. To feel like they can be themselves in their most unique ways. Where their stories will be heard and held. We work to decolonize therapy in our therapy practice and personally around our identities.
Decipher Counselling Art Therapy Studio offers creative, justice-oriented therapy for people dealing with experiences of invalidation, including any and all underrepresented communities. This may include processing trauma, navigating identities, life transitions, and power differences. We aim to create a space where people of all intersectionalities can feel like they belong. To feel like they can be themselves in their most unique ways. Where their stories will be heard and held. We work to decolonize therapy in our therapy practice and personally around our identities.
My name is Bruce Avery, I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor and I'm the founder of Avery Therapy Centre. I work with a wide range of people who may seek increased perspective, self-understanding, and clarity in their everyday lives. I also work with people who may feel that anxiety, depression, or trauma (past/current) is hindering them from achieving a sense of fulfillment and purpose. Through my work, I hear stories of both extraordinary achievements as well as unbearable challenges. I've found the work of counselling to be incredibly fulfilling, and feel honoured when trusted with the opportunity to learn about someone’s life.
My name is Bruce Avery, I'm a Registered Clinical Counsellor and I'm the founder of Avery Therapy Centre. I work with a wide range of people who may seek increased perspective, self-understanding, and clarity in their everyday lives. I also work with people who may feel that anxiety, depression, or trauma (past/current) is hindering them from achieving a sense of fulfillment and purpose. Through my work, I hear stories of both extraordinary achievements as well as unbearable challenges. I've found the work of counselling to be incredibly fulfilling, and feel honoured when trusted with the opportunity to learn about someone’s life.
Are you struggling with emotional issues or feeling purposeless? Wanting to improve your relationship with your partner/family but not knowing how? Needing some support as you live your life abroad? When you look at the core of many life challenges, the need and absence of love, belonging, recognition--are what lies beneath. This holds true even for my clients from different cultures. So let's see how we can work together to bring them into your life. This is a safe place where you can show up as your real self without judgement.
Are you struggling with emotional issues or feeling purposeless? Wanting to improve your relationship with your partner/family but not knowing how? Needing some support as you live your life abroad? When you look at the core of many life challenges, the need and absence of love, belonging, recognition--are what lies beneath. This holds true even for my clients from different cultures. So let's see how we can work together to bring them into your life. This is a safe place where you can show up as your real self without judgement.
Welcome! It takes a lot of courage to own your story and reach out, so be proud of yourself for taking the first step. My approach in counselling is warm, genuine, and strengths-based. It is my aim to build a meaningful connection with you and provide you with the coping techniques and skills necessary to cultivate resilience and fulfillment in your life. By listening to your stories, I can help you process your emotions and navigate life's many uncertainties with more clarity and confidence. I embrace clients from all backgrounds and acknowledge the unique challenges faced by individuals from underrepresented communities.
Welcome! It takes a lot of courage to own your story and reach out, so be proud of yourself for taking the first step. My approach in counselling is warm, genuine, and strengths-based. It is my aim to build a meaningful connection with you and provide you with the coping techniques and skills necessary to cultivate resilience and fulfillment in your life. By listening to your stories, I can help you process your emotions and navigate life's many uncertainties with more clarity and confidence. I embrace clients from all backgrounds and acknowledge the unique challenges faced by individuals from underrepresented communities.
Counselling is a sensitive journey that invites us to be vulnerable, open, and authentic. I aim to create a safe environment for clients to explore their challenges and self, offering compassion, non-judgment, warmth, and genuine care in the therapy room. I am committed to supporting clients with practical coping strategies and tools to address low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other emotional and mental health challenges. Through collaboration, I tailor each session to your unique needs and goals, recognizing that no two journeys are alike.
Counselling is a sensitive journey that invites us to be vulnerable, open, and authentic. I aim to create a safe environment for clients to explore their challenges and self, offering compassion, non-judgment, warmth, and genuine care in the therapy room. I am committed to supporting clients with practical coping strategies and tools to address low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and other emotional and mental health challenges. Through collaboration, I tailor each session to your unique needs and goals, recognizing that no two journeys are alike.
I guide people to return to their fierce intelligence for healing, for thriving. You can free your heart no matter what atrocity you’ve endured. Whether it’s trauma that’s racialized, class-based, familial, intergenerational, transphobic, religious, and ableist, there is medicine within you that wants to heal you. Your spirit (wholeness) is designed to reclaim your life force. Your life force is exactly the gift our world needs to come back into balance. I care about you coming into your rightful power so that you can live in belonging and grow loving connections.
I guide people to return to their fierce intelligence for healing, for thriving. You can free your heart no matter what atrocity you’ve endured. Whether it’s trauma that’s racialized, class-based, familial, intergenerational, transphobic, religious, and ableist, there is medicine within you that wants to heal you. Your spirit (wholeness) is designed to reclaim your life force. Your life force is exactly the gift our world needs to come back into balance. I care about you coming into your rightful power so that you can live in belonging and grow loving connections.
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC - 18450) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). I completed my Master of Arts (MA) in Family Life Education from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Since 2005 I have had the privilege of doing pastoral counselling for youth and college students and clinical counselling with individuals of multi-ethnic backgrounds and ages. I work with high risk youth since 2015. I primarily use EMDR, CBT and EFT therapy
I am a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC - 18450) with the British Columbia Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC). I completed my Master of Arts (MA) in Family Life Education from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Since 2005 I have had the privilege of doing pastoral counselling for youth and college students and clinical counselling with individuals of multi-ethnic backgrounds and ages. I work with high risk youth since 2015. I primarily use EMDR, CBT and EFT therapy
Having a family member struggling with mental health issue has first inspired me to go into counselling. I have also been through counselling at different points in my life, which helps me gain a better understanding of the counselling process and its benefits as a client.
Having a family member struggling with mental health issue has first inspired me to go into counselling. I have also been through counselling at different points in my life, which helps me gain a better understanding of the counselling process and its benefits as a client.
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Asian Counsellors
Why is it important for a therapist to be culturally sensitive?
A culturally sensitive therapist would be respectful and considerate of different groups, with regard to race, sexual orientation, gender, and other factors that are important to an individual. These considerations can help a client feel understood as well as validated. While some people think highlighting race could promote stereotypes and bias, more understanding and knowledge about cultural differences is a positive for a healthy therapeutic alliance.
How can I recognise an effective Asian therapist?
You can discern a lot by asking how familiar the potential therapist is with different cultures, as well as asking how they might address issues related to identity, values, and beliefs. Also inquire about their education, as well as any particular training they may have completed, such as cultural sensitivity or diversity and inclusion programs.
What if the therapist does not have my exact background?
The therapist may not share a client’s exact background, but the therapist may have plenty of hands-on experience as well as the sensitivity needed for therapeutic progress. Their sensitivity to different populations will help the client feel accepted and comfortable in sharing their concerns and difficulties.
How might I inquire about a therapist's experience with Asian clients?
A therapist with an Asian background may have experience within their community, as well as broader cultural sensitivity. Ask the potential therapist whether they've worked with individuals who share your background. If they have not worked with similar clients, they may well know someone who has such experience.
Who is included in Psychology Today's directory of Asian therapists?
The directory of Asian therapists includes professionals who have shared their ethnicity in their profiles. Psychology Today uses this information to assist clients in finding a therapist who can provide a cultural match. However, not all therapists choose to disclose their ethnicity in their profiles, and they may not appear in search results for this reason; also, when the number of therapists identified as Asian is limited, the directory will also show therapists with comprehensive experience working with clients from relevant backgrounds.