BIPOC & LGBTQ+ Affirming Therapy

Toronto and across Canada

A safer space to be your full self.

Therapy shouldn’t require you to shrink, translate, or defend your existence.

Too often, therapy spaces are built around white, Western, cis-heteronormative ideals of healing, identity, family, and success. And clients who live outside of them are often:

  • Misunderstood

  • Pathologized or considered “not normal”

  • Told to set boundaries that don’t account for cultural nuance

  • Dismissed when naming racism, homophobia, or intergenerational expectations

Maybe you’ve been told to cut off family when that’s not an option. Maybe your values have been questioned because they don’t align with individualistic ideals. Maybe you’ve shared something deeply vulnerable, only to be met with misunderstanding.

You deserve therapy that values your lived experience, rather than one that tries to fit it into a framework that erases it.

Therapy That Sees the Whole You

As a queer, first-generation immigrant and person of colour, I take a whole-person approach—one that holds space for your cultural background, identities, family dynamics, community roles, and the systems you’ve had to navigate. Your emotions don’t exist in a vacuum; neither should your healing.

I bring lived experience and a decolonial, anti-oppressive lens. But I also recognize that no two experiences are alike — even within similar communities.

That’s why I won’t assume what something means for you. I may ask questions or invite context, not to question your reality, but to understand it in your words, on your terms.

This is collaborative work. Together, we create a space that honours your complexity and helps you reconnect to yourself, in your fullness.

What We Might Explore in Therapy

Clients I work with often bring:

  • Relationship anxiety or people-pleasing

  • Complex trauma and attachment wounds

  • Emotional burnout from caregiving or code-switching

  • Shame, grief, or disconnection from identity or body

  • The push-pull of cultural or intergenerational expectations

  • Internalized oppression, identity-based trauma, or invisibility

  • A sense of "carrying too much" — and never feeling like enough

You don’t need a formal diagnosis to start. You just need a space to be human.

My Approach

I offer online trauma therapy that’s relational, a combination of talk therapy and body-based, and culturally responsive.

Some of the approaches I use include:

  • Attachment-based and psychodynamic therapy to explore how early experiences shaped your self-worth and relationships

  • IFS/parts work: to gently connect with internal protectors, younger parts, and survival strategies

  • Somatic therapy and EMDR: to help release trauma stored in the body and regulate the nervous system

  • Mindfulness and DBT: to strengthen emotional awareness, boundaries, and resilience

We go at your pace. There’s no rush, no pressure, no “fixing.” Only space to come home to yourself, one breath at a time.

You Belong Here

If you’ve ever thought:

  • “I’m too sensitive, too much, or too complicated”.

  • “I’ve survived so much, but I don’t know how to feel okay.”

  • “I don’t feel safe in my body, my family, or my identity.”

  • “I always hold space for others, but no one holds it for me.”

Then this work is for you.

Let’s Begin

You’ve already been doing so much on your own.
Therapy can be the place where you learn to rest, repair, and reconnect — without giving up who you are.

If you're looking for BIPOC or LGBTQ+ affirming therapy in Toronto or anywhere in Ontario, I’d be honoured to walk with you.