Our Team

Cynthia is a Registered Clinical Counsellor based in Vancouver, BC, offering video and phone counselling to youth (16+) and adults across British Columbia and Alberta. She welcomes individuals of all genders, backgrounds, and identities.

Cynthia understands that change can be difficult. She helps clients navigate challenges with warmth, compassion, and curiosity to recognize their strengths and feel empowered. She believes individuals have the ability for growth and helps with self-awareness, self-compassion, and build resiliency. Her counselling practice is grounded in a person-centered approach creating a space where clients can speak freely and share what feels most important.

Life Transitions Counselling

Cynthia’s focus is in life transitions counselling, offering a welcoming space where clients can bring up what feels most important. Change is a constant part of life, and she helps clients find clarity, connection, and meaning. Life transitions bring transformation and she helps clients seeking to:

• Explore identity, self-expression, and a sense of self

• Understand emotional patterns, including feelings of uncertainty, guilt, regret, and shame

• Improve emotional regulation including anxiety and perfectionism 

• Re-evaluate values, beliefs, meaning, purpose, and future possibilities

• Navigate relationship changes, friendship changes, and relational injury

• Navigate shifting roles (e.g caregiving, new parents) and family dynamics including family of origin beliefs

• Explore changes in career, new profession, work environment, and academics

• Build capacity for self-awareness and resiliency 

• Understand and process grief and loss

Cynthia has completed advanced education in life transitions and continues to expand her knowledge and expertise helping clients navigate meaningful periods of change.

Culturally and Trauma Informed Counselling

Cynthia draws in her experiences of being a Southeast Asian woman and second-generation immigrant. She understands how culture, race, gender, neurodivergence, and generational values can shape our identity and relationships. As a Registered Nurse, Cynthia brings extensive healthcare experience to her counselling practice. She understands how work, professional environments, and social structures can impact mental health, well-being, and our purpose. She works with clients seeking to:

• Understand intergenerational and workplace trauma and its relational impacts

• Improve their relationship with self through building self-awareness and self-compassion

• Improve nervous system regulation and feel connected to themselves 

• Shift unhealthy patterns and understand attachment wounds to improve relationships, self-esteem, and self-worth

• Explore cultural and family of origin beliefs

• Improve communication and set healthy boundaries 

• Create balance between personal and professional lives

• Explore identity, values, purpose, and meaning 

Cynthia’s practice is inclusive, non-judgmental, and anti-oppressive, creating a space for self-expression and growth.

Additional Areas of Practice

Cynthia helps clients explore and connect with themselves and also provides support in areas such as:

• Stress management, burnout, and caregiver burnout

• Navigating new and chronic illness

• Personal development

• Neurodivergence

• Communication skills and boundary setting

• Family and parenting experiences 

Counselling Approach

Cynthia’s approach is relational, collaborative, and person-centered. She offers counseling that is respectful, compassionate, and culturally safe. She blends evidence-based approaches with a primary focus on:

• Emotion-focused, attachment-based, and parts work theory

• Somatic, nervous system regulation and awareness, and body centered practices

• Psychodynamic theory, insightful and depth-oriented into past experiences

About Cynthia

Cynthia has diverse healthcare experience as a Registered Nurse and Psychiatric Nurse, working with teens, adults, and families. She holds a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and is a Registered Clinical Counsellor with the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC).

Outside of work, Cynthia enjoys walking local trails with her dog and finds peace in nature. She spends her free time outdoors, exploring the mountains and coastal waters of British Columbia, and enjoys trying new activities that support her creativity and curiosity.

Cynthia acknowledges and respects the lands of the unceded and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations where she lives, works, and plays.

Rate

$155 per 50 minute session