About the Counsellor

As an experienced Registered Clinical Counsellor, I provide counselling for individuals, couples, and families from my private practice in Metrotown, Burnaby. I work with clients facing anxiety, depression, anger, relationship and family difficulties, trauma, career and life transitions, and cross-cultural challenges.

My path to becoming a counsellor was not a straight one. Before entering the counselling profession, I studied architecture and worked in architecture and project management. My own experiences with life transitions eventually led me toward community service, mentoring immigrants and supporting families, and later to a Master of Counselling Psychology degree from Adler University.

I have worked as a Child and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) counsellor in a multicultural community organization and have presented workshops on family relationships, marriage, parenting, and cross-cultural issues in the Greater Vancouver area.

As a father of two and someone who has lived and studied in different cultural environments, I understand how family, culture, relationships, values, and life experiences can shape the challenges we face and the choices available to us.

My Approach to Counselling

My approach is integrative and change-focused. My training in the Satir Model and Adlerian perspectives has strongly influenced my work, while my cultural background and longstanding interest in Eastern philosophies and traditions have also shaped how I understand people, relationships, family, and change.

I believe insight and understanding are important foundations for meaningful transformation. Counselling can help us see familiar patterns differently, recognize new possibilities, experience different ways of relating to ourselves and others, and bring those discoveries into everyday life.

I bring both counselling and coaching strengths to this process. Depending on your needs, we may explore emotions, relationships, and past experiences, while also considering practical choices and steps forward. We may also use creative and experiential approaches, including expressive arts, to work with experiences that may be difficult to put into words. Rather than applying one method to every person or problem, I draw from different therapeutic approaches in ways that fit your life, relationships, values, and goals.

Approaches That Inform My Counselling

• Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy

• Adlerian Therapy

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Family Systems Therapy

• Gottman Method Couples Therapy

• Multicultural Perspectives

• Mindfulness-Based Approaches

• Expressive Arts Therapy

Qualifications and Professional Memberships

BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC)
Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC)

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA)
Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC)